2010 New Zealand International Film Festival - Wellington
Mark it in your diary now. The dates for the 2010 New Zealand International Film Festival in Wellington are 16 July - 1 August 2010.
Two weeks of exciting, stimulating, fascinating and moving films will come to the capital as the 2010 New Zealand International Film Festival makes a stop in Wellington this winter.
The full programme for Wellington will be available from Friday 18 June and tickets on sale from Tuesday 22 June.
Keep an eye on this page for more details as they are announced.
The 2010 Festival programme is not due to be released until mid-June but Festival organisers have confirmed two NZ-made documentaries are in the line-up.
Clive Neeson’s Last Paradise traces the evolution of extreme adventure sports in NZ and recently won the prestigious ‘Ambassador of Green’ award at X Dance - The Academy Awards of Action Sports Film held annually in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Robin Greenberg’s The Free China Junk tells the story of five young fishermen who in 1955 left Taiwan on an old traditional Chinese junk to cross the Pacific despite the fact that none of them had ever sailed a junk on open seas before.
Other recent Festival confirmations include There Once Was an Island by NZ filmmaker Briar March, which documents the plight of a small island community in the Pacific faced with rising sea-levels due to climate change. French prison drama and Cannes 2009 Grand Jury prize winner A Prophet will screen as well as Banksy’s documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West starring Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson will screen as part of the retrospective programme in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin.
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