March 26, 2014
Navajo manuhiri for Maoriland festival
New Zealand’s first international indigenous film festival starts in Otaki today.
Over the next five days Maoriland will showcase 30 indigenous films from New Zealand and around the world.
A special guest is Native American filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe, whose film Shimásánà tells a story taken from his grandmother’s life as a young woman in the 1930s.
Lowe, who is of Navajo descent, was brought out with help from the US Embassy.
While in the country he will also hold workshops with students from the New Zealand Film and Television School.
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