Cinema Walk + Film Screening
Sunday 17 November 2024
Join us for a guided Cinema Walk along Queen Street, Masterton. Learn the history of our local cinemas and theatres, followed by a special screening at Aratoi.
Mark Pacey (Wairarapa Archive) and Jane Ross (Wairarapa Film Festival) will share stories behind our early stage and screen buildings, the people who performed in them, and the films that were screened.
We conclude our Cinema Walk at Aratoi where you can enjoy a free archival film screening. You may even recognise some local people and places.
This fun event is a great opportunity for our local community to come together, celebrate cinema, and share stories.
Places are limited - register for this walk below:
Spring Programme 2024 (completed)
Friday 25 - Sunday 27 October 2024
Wairarapa Film Festival celebrates local art, film, and stories that connect people with their place. We create opportunities for people to connect through storytelling.
NGĀ MIHI - THANK YOU!
Thank you to our amazing filmmakers, cinematographers and photographers, and to everyone who attended our masterclasses, workshops, and film events in and around Greytown and Martinborough for the Spring Programme.
We'll be back in Autumn 2025!
Friday 25 October |
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Saturday 26 October |
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Sunday 27 October |
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Film Information
MA OLSEN (1977)
G | Documentary | 15 minutes
Director: Vincent Ward
A documentary about a remarkable elderly woman living in the country, outside Greytown. With a great love of animals and an intuitive understanding of their health, she lives with numerous cats, hens, roosters, sheep, and others. – Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Ma Olsen is the earliest surviving film by Vincent Ward. A lost and forgotten film that has recently been restored and digitised by the Film Preservation team at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Ma Olsen will have its first ever cinema screening at the Wairarapa Film Festival 2024!
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Sat 26 October - 3pm
IN SPRING ONE PLANTS ALONE (1980)
G | Documentary | 45 minutes
Director: Vincent Ward
“A thoroughly devastating documentary on 82 year old Maori woman’s struggle for survival.” - LOS ANGELES TIMES
Awards:
1980 Silver Hugo - Chicago Film Festival
1982 Grand Prix - Cinema Du Reel, France
Film courtesy of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission
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Sat 26 October - 3pm
WAIRARAPA FRESH SHORTS
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Sun 27 October - 3pm
Autumn Programme 2024 (finished)
The Autumn Programme for 2024 was a howling success!
This year we presented a record nineteen art and film events over four days!
Thank you! We couldn't do what we do without your support for our film festival!
We look forward to seeing you at the Spring Programme.
We look forward to seeing you at the
Autumn Programme 2024
Thursday 23 May |
Rangatahi Filmmaking Workshop (FULL) |
Wet Plate Photography Workshop (FULL) |
Short Film Funding Seminar
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Marvellous Mystery Movie!PG | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 107 minutes |
Opening Night at The Regent |
Friday 24 May |
Rangatahi Filmmaking Workshop (FULL) |
Wet Plate Photography Workshop (FULL) |
Repeat Screenings (SOLD OUT!)
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Tangata Whenua (The People of the Land)
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Friday Night Film: Rain of the Children |
Saturday 25 May |
Day One Hāpai te Haeata Seminar
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Tangata Whenua (The People of the Land)
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Repeat Screening at Regent 3 CinemasRain of the Children |
Saturday Night Movies at Regent 3 Cinemas
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Sunday 26 May |
Masterclass with Vincent Ward
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Masterclass with Derrick Sims
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A State of SiegeA short feature by Vincent Ward.
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Repeat Screening at Regent 3 Cinemas |
Inhale | Exhale - Artist Talk with Vincent Ward
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Encore Screening!
Sat June 1st
Saturday 1 June |
Due to popular demand, an encore screening of "Ma Olsen" and "In Spring One Plants Alone"
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MARVELLOUS MYSTERY MOVIE (2016)
PG | Adventure, Family Fantasy | 107 minutes
An orphaned little girl befriends a benevolent compassionate giant who takes her to Giant Country. Here they attempt to stop the scary man-eating giants, who are invading the human world.
Tickets are limited to 30 seats.
Reserve your seat by Online Booking or
Phone Reservation: Masterton District Library: 06 370 6253
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Thurs 23 May - 4.15pm
MA OLSEN (1977)
G | Documentary | 15 minutes
Director: Vincent Ward
A documentary about a remarkable elderly woman living in the country, outside Greytown. With a great love of animals and an intuitive understanding of their health, she lives with numerous cats, hens, roosters, sheep, and others. – Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Ma Olsen is the earliest surviving film by Vincent Ward. A lost and forgotten film that has recently been restored and digitised by the Film Preservation team at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Ma Olsen will have its first ever cinema screening at the Wairarapa Film Festival 2024!
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Thurs 23 May - 8.15pm
Opening night -
Friday 24 May - 1.15pm
Repeat screening
IN SPRING ONE PLANTS ALONE (1980)
G | Documentary | 45 minutes
Director: Vincent Ward
“A thoroughly devastating documentary on 82 year old Maori woman’s struggle for survival.” - LOS ANGELES TIMES
Awards:
1980 Silver Hugo - Chicago Film Festival
1982 Grand Prix - Cinema Du Reel, France
Film courtesy of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission
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Thurs 23 May - 8.15pm
Opening night -
Friday 24 May - 1.15pm
Repeat screening
TANGATA WHENUA (1974)
G | Documentaries
Director: Barry Barclay (Ngāti Apa)
Episode 1: The Spirits and the Times Will Teach (53 minutes)
The first programme in the landmark six-episode television series, "TANGATA WHENUA. The People Of The Land".
- Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Episode 5: Tūrangawaewae, A Place To Stand (46 minutes)
Tūrangawaewae, A Place to Stand follows the establishment of a new urban marae (Maraeroa) in Porirua, while also examining the past reality of life in the rural communities of Tokomaru Bay and Waimā Valley.
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Friday 24 May - 4.15pm
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Saturday 25 May - 1.15pm
Repeat screening
RAIN OF THE CHILDREN (2008)
M Violence & offensive language | Documentary Drama | 102 minutes
Director: Vincent Ward
A woman walks between the worlds of the living and the dead in search of her lost children.
Vincent Ward weaves drama with documentary to unravel the extraordinary story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman who welcomed the young filmmaker into her home in 1978. Ward made the observational film In Spring One Plants Alone about Puhi’s day-to-day life in the remote Urewera Ranges. By then almost 80, she was obsessively caring for her schizophrenic adult son Niki, whose violent fits terrified her. In this new cinema feature Ward sets out to unravel the mystery that has haunted him for 30 years: Who was Puhi?
"This is the most poetic and resonant film that this wonderful writer-director has produced. Rain of the Children is a maddening, haunting, moving and extraordinarily watchable film." - Graeme Tuckett, The Dominion Post, Wellington
Film courtesy of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission
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Friday 24 May - 8.15pm
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Saturday 25 May - 4.15pm
Repeat screening
THROUGH A GLASS, LIGHTLY (2024)
G | Documentary | 8 mins
Director: Derrick Sims
We are very excited to present this new release short documentary, which has been made especially for the Wairarapa Film Festival 2024.
Through a Glass, Lightly is about local wet plate and tin-type photographer Brian Scadden - a portrait of his life, thoughts, and ideas.
We are truly grateful for the generous support from our local film funders at both the Carterton and Masterton Creative Communities.
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Saturday 25 May - 8.15pm
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Sunday 26 May - 4.15pm
Repeat screening
JOS. The Forgotten Photographer Who Saved a Town (2023)
G | Documentary | 46 mins
Director: Dave Kwant
For nearly 100 years the name Jos Divis was missing from histories of New Zealand photography. Now a wrong is being righted. Some call him the ‘inventor of the selfie’. A street photographer ahead of his time he pioneered techniques to capture images of ordinary people and their working lives in a way no one else could.
Imprisoned for his beliefs, he lived his last years alone in the ghost town he helped bring to life, his family believing him dead.
JOS is a journey of discovery following a historian, a photographer and a museum curator all working to give Jos Divis the recognition he deserves.
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Saturday 25 May - 8.15pm
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Sunday 26 May - 4.15pm
Repeat screening
A STATE OF SIEGE (1978)
PG | Drama | 52 minutes
Director: Vincent Ward
Adapted from a novel by Janet Frame, Vincent Ward's much acclaimed short was made while he was still a student at Ilam School of Fine Arts.
Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility, (as an art teacher in a South Island private girls school), and decides to live out her dream – painting alone in the remote North. One terrifying night, beset by a prowler, but confronting only her own image at every step, she relives her past. – NZFC
“Ward creates more horror in this low budget movie with his play of light and shadow than Stanley Kubrick was able to create in the whole of The Shining.” - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Film courtesy of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission
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Sunday 26 May - 1.15pm
with poetry at Aratoi
Inhale | Exhale
Artist Talk with Vincent Ward
Inhale | Exhale includes essays by curators and respected writers Andrew Clifford and Roger Horrocks.
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Sunday 26 May, 4:30-6pm
Te Hūpēnui Greytown Gallery of Contemporary + Fine Art
