| If you are in Wellington tonight you can hop along to the Siapo Cinema Festival of Pasifika Moving Images which launches this evening. Look out for a week of films, exhibitions, live entertainment, music, dancing, lei-making, kai, and more | | | |
The Siapo Cinema Festival of Pasifika Moving Images Launch
| | When:
7pm Tuesday 12 May Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington Free admission |
| | Lei-Making Workshops with The 3 Hawaiians | |
| | The 3 Hawaiians invite you to join them for a lei-making workshop. Emalani, Kawika, and Kamalani are kanaka maoli (native Hawaiians). The 3 Hawaiians are on their own path in New Zealand, but weaving in out of each other's lives every day. They are happy to share their gift of lei-making with you. Mahalo!
Part of the Siapo Cinema festival of Pasifika moving images. | | When:
12pm - 2pm Wednesday 13 - Friday 15 May Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision cafe, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington Free admission | | |
| | Kava Club's Chop Suey Hui followed by NZ premiere of ThuleTuvalu | | Film: 2014, 98 min, Exempt, director Matthias von Gunten | | At 6pm come and enjoy some of Kava Club's fabulous kai, and a panel discussion on Pasifika moving images. The panel will be a discussion with filmmakers Makerita Urale and Lala Rolls, facilitated by Dr Teresia Teaiwa.
The screening of ThuleTuvalu will follow at 7pm. This documentary looks at how global climate change affects two separate regions in different ways. As the ice melts in Thule, the island nation of Tuvalu is threatened by the resultant rising sea level.
Part of the Siapo Cinema festival of Pasifika moving images. | | When:
6pm Wednesday 13 May
There will be repeat screenings of the film (without the panel discussion and food) on Wednesday 20 May & Saturday 6 June. Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington $8 / $6 |
| | Pollywood Twelve2014 | | 2012-2014, 90 min, M - Violence | | Pollywood Twelve2014, presented by Craig Fasi, features nine short films screening here in Wellington for the first time. This multi-genre visual feast has something for everyone - come and sample the filmic menu.
Part of the Siapo Cinema festival of Pasifika moving images. | | When:
7pm Thursday 14 May
4.30pm Saturday 16 May Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington $8 / $6
| | | | | Hotu Painu | | 1985, 49 min, Exempt, director Pita Turei | | Hotu Painu is a documentary on the history of nuclear testing in the Pacific - and its relationship with French colonialism in Tahiti (which locals claim has made them strangers or "Hotu Painu" in their own land).
Part of the Siapo Cinema festival of Pasifika moving images. | | When:
12.15pm Friday 15 May Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington Koha appreciated |
| | Musika with Bill Sevesi and Jon Jonanssen | | 81 min, Exempt | | Musika with Bill Sevesi and Jon Jonanssen is an evening of music and song, through a compilation programme of three short documentaries focusing on Pasifika musical output: Song of the South Seas - The Life and Music of Bill Sevesi (1992, director Chris Williams), Mou Piri: A Rarotongan Love Song (2013, director Karin Williams), and Bill Sevesi's Dream (2011, director Ying Ly).
Part of the Siapo Cinema festival of Pasifika moving images. | | When:
7pm Friday 15 May Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington $8 / $6
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