Festival of Women Directors at Nga Taonga

Posted Tuesday 01 Mar 2016

Let the good times roll at Nga Taonga! In the next few weeks they have films by three women directors and two of them are WIFT members - Leanne Pooley and Annie Goldson. Keep up the good work down in Wellie, Nga Taonga!

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

NZ, 2009, 84 mins, M - Offensive language and sexual references, director Leanne Pooley

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls is the first time that the irrepressible Kiwi

entertainment double act Jools and Lynda Topp's extraordinary personal story

has been told.

 

When:
7pm Wednesday 2, Saturday 12, Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24 March

Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington

$8 / $10 Buy tickets


Georgie Girl

NZ, 2002, 69 mins, PG Coarse language, directors: Annie Goldson, Peter Wells

Screening in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the passing of homosexual law reform bill.

Georgie Girl takes an evocative look at the life of Georgina Beyer, a M?ori transsexual, former sex worker, and the first transgendered person to be elected into national office in the world.

When:
7pm Wednesday 9 March

Where:

Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington

$8 / $10 Buy tickets


Hudson and Halls - A Love Story

NZ, 2001, 74 mins, Exempt, director: Juliet Monaghan

Hudson and Halls - A Love Story is screening in Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the passing of homosexual law reform bill.

"The poignant story of the lives, partnership and sad deaths of the buccaneering celebrity cooks. The aproned duo were renowned for their banter as much as their baking and became hugely popular television cooks in New Zealand before they moved back to the old country." - New Zealand Listener

When:
7pm Friday 11 March
4.30pm Saturday 12 March

Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington

$8 / $10 Buy tickets