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The WAIROA MAORI FILM FESTIVAL is a celebration of Maori and indigenous film held at Kahungunu Marae, Nuhaka, New Zealand, each year. Master-carved Kahungunu Marae is famed for featuring in BROKEN BARRIER directed by John O'Shea in the 1950s, with people from Nuhaka and Mahia acting and performing in the film.

After our home festival, we then take Maori films across New Zealand under the banner of Kia Ora Shorts, curate the Nga Whanaunga Maori Pasifika programme of the NZ International Film Festival, and send films overseas to various film festivals around the world.

We've partnered with the Sydney Maori Business Network to present the Aotearoa Maori Film Festival in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia. And we curated films for events in Finland, Fiji and Hamburg, Germany.

We've co-presented a programme of Maori films at the T-Tahiti Film Festival in French Polynesia (Tahiti) which then went on to also screen at the Aotearoa NZ Film Festival in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Our 2014 festival was a great success, with film makers gathered from across Aotearoa, and special guests from Poland, Hawaii, USA, Samoa, Tahiti and the Cook Islands. Check out our new Facebook page for all the news and our Tumblr blog for all the photos!

Next year is our 10th! Join us in 2015!

Nau Mai! Nau Mai! Haere Mai!

WAIROA MAORI FILM FESTIVAL
Friday May 29 to Monday June 1, 2015 * Matariki
Queen's Birthday Weekend
Kahungunu Marae, Nuhaka, Wairoa, Aotearoa

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Nuhaka & Morere

Kahungunu Marae, Nuhaka, and its smaller adjacent whare Te Tahinga Marae, is home every year for a full weekend of screenings of new Maori and global indigenous film making. Each year, we partnered with the local Morere Hot Springs community with extended opening hours at the pools, a shuttle to and from the marae, and a very special closing night celebration at the Morere Hall at the Morere Tea Rooms.

Come join us at a film festival like no other! Nau Mai! Nau Mai! Haere Mai! 

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DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT OUR INDEPENDENT SISTER NEWS WEBSITE, THE MAORI FILM LETTER AT MANAWAIROA.COM, FOR THE LATEST NEWS FROM AOTEAROA, TORONTO AND HAWAII! 

CALL FOR ENTRIES 2015
ARE NOW OPEN

Entries to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival are now open. Entries at present can be made either by (a) physically mailing the completed/signed entry form and screener DVD, Blu-Ray or USB to the festival, or (b) by emailing a scan  of the completed and signed entry form along with an online link. Terms and Conditions of Entry are available for review on the form, and on our Terms and Conditions page. Film makers are encourage to read this page to get a sense of the kind of content we are looking for.

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