Raglan Film Festival opens Friday, September 15 at 7pm with a Kiwi film Haka and Guitars, fine food and continues with bevy of international films.
The international line-up includes My Pet Dinosaur for the kids, The Artist’s Garden for art lovers and gardeners, an Italian comedy of manners – Perfect Strangers, legendary skate movie – Lords of Dogtown, a hard-hitting exploration of USA race relations – I am Not Your Negro and a look at the life of influential rapper Tupac in All Eyez on Me.
Hastings filmmaker William Watson brings Haka and Guitars to the Raglan Film Festival opening night.
The award-winning documentary recently screened at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and has picked up a string of awards including best world peace documentary in the Artisan Festival International World Peace Initiative.
Attending the opening night screening, Watson will discuss the highs and lows of a film that was 12-years in the making.
Set during the Pacific’s most bloody Civil War, the New Zealand Army found a way to achieve peace without guns and violence. Through the powerful influence of women and multiculturalism Haka and Guitars shows the world there is a way to achieve peace in our time.
Former NZ Army Major Fiona Cassidy (NgatiKuri, Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa) returns to Bougainville to reflect on ‘Operation Belisi’, modern history’s most successful peacekeeping mission.
Check out this gem of a Kiwi film on opening night and get in quick for tickets which includes food cooked by Raglan kaumatua and a drink.
Plus an extra bonus:
Leanna and Dan- Steps, Stairs, Stairwells
Follow Raglan fire fighters Leanna and Dan Mills as they train for then compete in firefighter stair climbing competitions. Documentary/ 20 mins / New Zealand/ 2017
Support the local kaumatua and head down to the Old School for choice kai for sale from 5pm for those not attending the film – $5 for seafood chowder or pumpkin soup and fry bread, $2.50 for delicious Top Cut sausage and bread, $2 for fry bread, butter and golden syrup.
Friday, September 15 RFF Opening Night- Haka and Guitars with Filmmaker followed by Leanna and Dan: Steps, Stairs, Stairwells
– food on sale from 5pm, bar opens at 7pm and movie begins at 8pm
Adults $15, Concession $12, Children $8– ticket prices include food and a drink. Licensed bar available.
Reserve for this Raglan Film Festival movie at
September 15, 2017, 7:00 pm: RFF Opening Night: HAKA AND GUITARS
All other festival tickets Adults $15, Concession $12, Children $8, Multi-entry Special – six sessions for the price of four $60.
Reserve online: raglanmovies.nz.