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| General | New Zealand’s DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival is Australasia’s only international competitive documentary film festival showcasing the very best in documentary films from all around the world.
DOCNZ 2009 will take place 26 February - 8 March 2009 and will be located in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Check back for exact dates! | | Music | DOCNZ Focus is a member’s only event which features 6 high-caliber films to be screened during the year. This will be a limited opportunity to catch a smorgasbord of films that have been highly awarded internationally, including Oscar nominated films, classics, New Zealand premiere documentaries and maybe even a surprise thrown in!
COMING SOON: The first DOCNZ Focus screening will be 29 July at the Academy Cinemas in Auckland.
~ 29 July - Masters: Hoop Dreams (Dir. Steve James) is one of the most loved documentaries and a classic from 1994. The film follows the lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional. The film was nominated for an Oscar and won numerous awards.
It is a chance to purchase a membership that will entail entry to the full season of 6 documentaries plus benefits, discounts and access privileges to the Festival and Summit. The programme will consist of 6 types of documentaries:
•HOTDOCS: A high profile, highly awarded international documentary which might also be the next theatrical blockbuster
•KIWIDOC: A New Zealand documentary premiere
•CLASSICDOC: A walk down memory lane, this could be a much loved classic such as Pennebaker’s 1967 Don’t Look Back or Errol Morris’ The Thin Blue Line
•NEW FRONTIER: World premiere of a cutting-edge documentary (or MASTERS: Documentary by a leading director)
•WORLDDOC: Each season, DOCNZ Focus will choose a country and a documentary to put under the spotlight
•WILDCARD: The surprise choice!
Membership Benefits:
- First to know: Receive email-outs ahead of the public about DOCNZ Festival, DOCNZ Summit and other DOCNZ activities
- Networking: an opportunity to network and mingle with like-mined people and expand social activity
- Learn: a forum for filmmakers and enthusiasts to discuss current issues and films
Registration:
Seats are limited so don’t delay and join today!
| | Movies | DOCNZ Summit is an annual industry event that includes seminars, master-classes, a pitching forum and a market place.
The DOCNZ Summit 2009 will take place 23-25 February 2009 in Auckland.
The Summit is place to learn and network with local and international professionals from the industry.
The DOCNZ Digital Library will be introduced in 2009 as a further trade initiative to bring international buyers to New Zealand. | | Television | THEY TURNED OUR DESERT INTO FIRE
by Mark Brecke
They Turned Our Desert Into Fire tells the story of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, through the perspectives of Amtrak passengers during a three-day, cross-country
train trip. In dramatic contrast to the benign American landscape outside the train, Mark's
photographic images of desolation, death, and human suffering in the burned out villages of Darfur and refugee camps of Chad confront one after another of twelve train passengers. Complementing the photographs are moving accounts of Mark's experiences and a comprehensive expert analysis, which illuminates the full dimensions of the crisis and raises serious questions about the world's
apparently willful indifference to it. For the twelve passengers, and thus the film's audience, a cross-country train trip becomes an enlightening and emotional journey through an indifferent American media landscape into the heart of the Darfur tragedy.
http://www.desertintofire.com
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PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA
a documentary by John Waters
This hair-raising and hilarious doco tells the story of a desert resort wonderland that has turned
into America's worst ecological disaster. Amid the flooded towns, empty cities, and beaches of dead
fish, we meet the hardy eccentrics that continue hang on to hope, including a roadside nudist
waving at passing European tourists, a man building a religious mountain out of mud and paint,
beer-loving Hungarian Revolutionary Hunky Daddy, and the real-estate "Ronald McDonald" known simply
as The Landman. Through their perceptions and misperceptions, the strange history and unexpected
beauty of the Salton Sea is revealed.
Watch trailer at: http://www.saltonseadoc.com/
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CONSIDERING DEMOCRACY: 8 Things to Ask Your Representative. A film by Keya Lea Horiuchi (1st May 2008)
While the U.S. is the most flaunted democracy in the world, how do we compare, and what does the rest of the world think of U.S. domestic and foreign policy? Americans are continually told through their media that freedom and democracy are being given to people abroad, but is it true?
The documentary looks at seemingly different topics and creates a tapestry of tantalizing information that becomes interwoven and interconnected. Shot in 10 countries, the rest of the world is a wealth of intelligence and acts as a beautiful, yet pragmatic reflection of political power in the United States.
www.consideringdemocracy.com
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NZ Doco, 'A Grandmother's Tribe', raises CA $50.000 for African grandmothers (29th April 2008)
That documentaries do not only entertain and educate but have effects on the audience is the hope of many documentary filmmakers.
We're happy to announce that the film 'A Grandmothers Tribe' that had its world premiere at DOCNZ 2007 was able to raise 50.000 CA$ for AIDS orphans in Kenya. It is the latest film of Dean Easterbrook and Qiujing Wong (New Zealand Company Borderless Productions).
It tells the story of two grandmothers in Kenya - one rural and one urban - caught in the ripitide of HIV/AIDS and left to raise their orphaned grandchildren. It was premiered a few weeks ago in the black-tie Gala Screening in Vancouver, Canada. After the film had been seen, a man in the audience raised his hand, and asked what it would cost to build a house for one of these grannies. The answer was $3.000. The man said he wanted to write a cheque. Another person raised their hand, and said they would like to build a house too. Within minutes, 10 houses had been pledged!
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King of Corn (28th April 2008)
On the 38th anniversary of Earth Day, an entire generation of Americans born after the introduction of this much-mocked and undervalued holiday/celebration/day of pondering can now be affectionately referred to as the “Children of the Corn.”
Anyone who pays the slightest attention to the ingredient lists of most of the food items sold at the conventional grocery stores across this country would know this, except the American consumer seems to do very little research while buying things that go directly into her body. This is why we need more investigative reporting and more documentary films on the subject of food. This is why King Corn, directed by Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, is important viewing for the average American consumer.
In King Corn, Woolf, Cheney (we hope of no relation the Cheneys of Wyoming) and Ellis spell out in very basic terms, what has gone so wrong with American agriculture and its direct product, American food. They present their hardest evidence first: Ellis and Cheney have their strands of hair analyzed at the University of Virginia. The result: the carbon in their bodies originated from corn. The two Ivy League grads seem shocked and appalled. They run to the grocery store and start reading labels of their favorite food products such as Twinkies and apple juice. They find out the obvious — most packaged foods in America contain some derivative of corn, whether it comes in the form of corn oil, the infamous and ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup or the mysterious xanthan gum.
King Corn doesn’t teach foodies and sustainable agriculture advocates anything they did not know before. However, it’s a gentle introduction for the average American consumer into the nightmare that food production has become in this country. It’s perhaps with people watching films like King Corn that we’ll have enough American families to stand up and take back their dinner plate from the jaws of companies such as Monsanto, Cargill, ADM and Bayer.
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KiaOra from DOCNZ.
The Trust has just launched a Membership Programme which will allow you to become a member of DOCNZ. The annual membershipis a donation (tax-deductible) and will provide you with some greatincentives for DOCNZ 2009.
More details below. Here is the latest from DOCNZ.
The DOCNZ Team
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DOCNZ Membership Programme
We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation that relies on the generosity of the community. A festival is a time consuming and expensive event to plan, organise, promote and to put into action. While the DOCNZ Festival runs for around two months, The Trust is busy year round preparing for the national event, sourcing and selecting the films, printing programmes and marketing materials and working as an advocate and educator for New Zealand documentary filmmakers. While some of our expenditure is covered by the festival's box office sales, corporate sponsorship and community funding, unfortunately this is not enough for The Trust to be able to continue its activities effectively.
The Trust invites you to join us in our efforts to provide a home for our documentary filmmakers, to act as an industry advocate and spokesperson and to achieve our goal of becoming the capital of documentary films in the Southern Hemisphere.
Membership Levels
Crew Pass $300:
- 10 complimentary tickets for the DOCNZ 2009
- Your Donation will be recognised in the DOCNZ 2009 programme
Producer Pass $600:
- DOCNZ Festival Pass 2009 (member access with ID to all sessions at your local festival; subject to availability)
- Your Donation will be recognised in the DOCNZ 2009 programme
Director Pass $1,000:
- Invitation to Opening, Awards Night 2009(Meeting filmmakers and industry delegates)
- Invitations to functions run by the Trust
- DOCNZ 2009 Festival Pass (bearer access to all sessions atyour local festival)
- Your Donation will be recognised in the DOCNZ 2009 programme
Thank you! All donations are gratefully received. For more information and Registration Form, please visit: http://www.docnz.org.nz/trust/membership.html
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DOCNZ 2009 - Campaign Contest
Get ready! The Trust will announce next month acompetition for the design of DOCNZ 2009's campaign. The brief will include the design of the festival's tagline, the festival's poster, programme cover page, billboard as well asprint ads.
We will encourage emerging and professional designers to enter their concepts and ideas for selection. The chosen campaign will beused for DOCNZ 2009 and receive a cash award. Full details will be included in the next newsletter in late May.
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DOCNZ Deadlines Reminder for DOCNZ 2009:
- The early deadline for submission is: 30June 2008 (postmarked)
- The official deadline for submission is: 31 July 2008 (postmarked)
- The extended deadline (fee applies): 14 August 2008 (postmarked)
- DOCNZ Pitching Forum: The official deadline for submission is: 4.00pm, 31July 2008
For regulations and entry forms: http://www.docnz.org.nz/festival/filmmakers.html
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We would like to congratulate our advisor, Prof. Annie Goldson, on the world premiere of her film An Island Calling held at the Academy Cinema on 30 March.
Played before a packed house, the film was opened by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Helen Clark, who noted Annie’s consummate ability to bring to the screen important documentaries that take the audiences on a journey and which delve beneath the surface to reveal important intricacies.
An Island Calling is Owen Scott’s journey back to Fiji to make sense of the murder of his brother John Scott and John’s partner Greg Scrivener. You are still able to see the documentary as part of its nationwide tour in the World Cinema Showcase. For more information visit www.worldcinemashowcase.co.nz
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Congratulations to Cynthia Wade, director of Freeheld, who has won an Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards for Best Short Documentary. Freeheld screened in competition at DOCNZ Festival in 2007. We are excited that for the second year in a row, a film that has premiered in our New Zealand festival has gone on to win an Oscar.
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Got a brilliant documentary film idea? Here is your chance to pitch it to local and international commissioners/buyers and secure funding for it!
Following the success of the DOCNZ Pitching Forum in 2006 and 2007, we are now open for submissions for the next Pitching Forum which will be held during the DOCNZ Summit in February 2009.
An Entry Form and Regulations are available to download on the DOCNZ website.
Deadline for Submissions is by 4.00pm, 31 July 2008. | | Books | We’re now accepting submissions for the DOCNZ 2009 Festival.
Only entries postmarked on or before the corresponding deadline (date) will be considered.
Early Bird Deadline: 30 June 2008
Official Deadline: 31 July 2008
Extended Deadline (fee applies): 14 August 2008
For Rules and Regulations and the Official Entry Form, please visit our homepage at:
http://www.docnz.org.nz/festival/filmmakers.html
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DOCNZ Pitching Forum:
The official deadline for submission is:
4.00pm, 31 July 2008
For regulations and entry forms: www.docnz.org.nz
| | Heroes | Volunteers form a key role in the smooth operation of DOCNZ by providing skills to fill various positions both prior to and during the festival.
DOCNZ seeks help in various areas including programming, fundraising and marketing departments. On-site volunteers are also engaged as ushers, event assistants, registrars, drivers, filmmaker hosts and more.
If you are interested in volunteering with DOCNZ please contact Dan Shanan.
The Trust is constantly seeking new partnership opportunities. If you are interested please contact us! |
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Documentary New Zealand Trust is non-for-profit charitable organisation that advocates and promotes the importance of documentary films and filmmaking in New Zealand to our creative, business and wider communities.
Three major activities are organized by the Documentary New Zealand Trust each year:
~ DOCNZ Festival
(International Documentary Film Festival New Zealand)
~ DOCNZ Summit
~ DOCNZ Focus
The Trust works to increase access and participation in documentaries and to act as an advocate for documentary filmmakers.
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Contact The Documentary New Zealand Trust:
Tel: +64 9 360 0329
Fax: +64 9 309 4084
info@docnz.org.nz
Alex Lee
Director
alex@docnz.org.nz
Dan Shanan
Director and Sponsorship Coordinator
dan@docnz.org.nz
Ewa Bigio
Director
ewa@docnz.org.nz
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