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Filmmaker Kim Webby is off to show her documentary on the Tuhoe raids and their aftermath, Price of Peace, at ImagiNative in Toronto.
It’s the world’s biggest festival of indigenous cinema, and Webby says she’s honoured to have the film accepted for screening – and looking forward to sharing her experiences with other filmmakers from around the world.
Price of Peace didn’t find a broadcaster or get New Zealand On Air funding until it was almost at the post-production phase, possibly because people wrongly felt the story had been told.
"Following something for seven years from the raids right through to the police apology, you get a full story and all the different nuances are there and what you had to begin with which was a whole lot of anger and hurt and rage is somethng quite different by the end of the process when you are moving into a period of healing, reconciliation," Webby says.
She says the experience of police lining up against first nations people is something that should resonate with indigenous audiences.
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