Celebrate Mana Wahine with WARU at this year's symposium

Posted Tuesday 13 Sep 2016

The announcements just keep coming... you can check out STS website for daily updates - but for now the latest is that NINE more New Zealand filmmakers - many of them WIFT members have been booked.  They are the makers of WARU, a groundbreaking collaboration, made up of eight short films by M?ori women.

They welcome the writers and directors from feature project WARU: Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace-Smith, Chelsea Winstanley, Katie Wolfe, Paula Jones, Renae Maihi, Casey Kaa, Awanui Simich-Pene and Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu. Each will present a mini-address about what risk means to them within the context of this collaboration.

Jon Raymond And a very warm welcome to  Greenstone who joins STS as a sponsor of this year's symposium.

The  Big Screen Symposium 2016 takes place on 24/25 September.  Tickets on sale now