Author: kowhai

Short Film Workshop

This year the Show Me Shorts film fes­ti­val is offer­ing a half day work­shop in Welling­ton open to any­one inter­est­ed in short films. The work­shops are a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet expe­ri­enced and up and com­ing film­mak­ers, see some great films and learn more about the craft of devel­op­ing a good short film.

 

When & Where: Sat­ur­day 14 Novem­ber at Para­mount The­atre

Cost: $10

 

Reg­is­tra­tion: 9am

 

Ses­sion One: Script devel­op­ment 9.30am – 11.00am
Film­mak­ers Louis Suther­land (Run, The Six Dol­lar Fifty Man) and Paul Ward (The Graf­fi­ti of Mr Tupa­ia, Choice Night) will screen and talk about one of their own short films and dis­cuss with producer/director Paul Swadel (Poppy,No Ordi­nary Sun) what makes a great short film. There will be time for Q&A at the end of this ses­sion.

 

Morn­ing Tea: 11am – 11.30am (food and bev­er­ages pro­vid­ed)

 

Ses­sion Two: 11.30am – 1.00pm: New Shorts Show­case
Film­mak­ers Sal­ly Tran, Andrew Cam­pi­on, and Rol­lo Wen­lock screen recent work and dis­cuss the plea­sures and chal­lenges of mak­ing shorts. 

Reg­is­ter for the work­shop online here.
Or con­tact anna@showmeshorts.co.nz for more infor­ma­tion.

Show Me Shorts

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Show Me Shorts Film Fes­ti­val rolls into town this Thurs­day for 6 days with a fine selec­tion of the New Zealand and Aus­tralian short films that were con­tenders for the 8 awards. 

Tomor­row is Welling­ton’s open­ing night at the Para­mount kick­ing off at 7.30pm.  Open­ing night show­cas­es the 8 win­ners in each cat­e­go­ry, tick­ets are $20 and include a glass of wine.

Full details of the Fes­ti­val, includ­ing the full sched­ule, themes and details of each film can be found in the pdf linked to from this page.  (We will report back with sug­ges­tions about the best ses­sions to attend.)

Come cel­e­brate the short form and see if you can spot the next Tai­ka Wait­i­ti.

Handle the Jandal — DIY

Tonight at the Embassy the­atre there will be an visu­al explo­sion of enthu­si­as­tic ama­teurs, with the annu­al Han­dle the Jan­dal DIY music video com­pe­ti­tion com­ing to the big screen for one night only. 

This Welling­ton­ista hand deliv­ered one of the entries all the way from that heav­ing metrop­o­lis Auck­land, so may pos­si­bly be a wee bit biased about who she thinks should kick some arse. 

Remem­ber the con­tro­ver­sy over the Hot Grits and the milk swill­ing babies (booze for baby?!?) last year?

Grab your Jaf­fas and head along tonight to cel­e­brate the skanky and dis­rup­tive DIY spir­it of our cul­tur­al sec­tor on the big screen.

What: Han­dle the Jan­dal — DIY music videos

Where: The Embassy The­atre

Cost: $17 pre-sales $22 on the door

Details on the Radio Active web­site here.

Climate of Fair

I know, I know, super-bad pun but the folks here at Welling­ton­ista seem to have real­ly real­ly high pun thresh­olds.…

 

Any­way, this Sat­ur­day being part of a long week­end there are a lot of events com­pet­ing for your atten­tion out there in Welling­ton.  We have Craft 2.0 Fair at the Dowse as Sue has already post­ed, I will be work­ing the kids table and it would def­i­nite­ly be my pick for tomor­row.  How­ev­er maybe some of you can’t make it to the Hutt or want a few more options in cen­tral Welly.

 

Nothing to See Here

As Robyn has right­ly point­ed out, tonight is Pecha Kucha at Down­stage at 7.30 (get there ear­ly if you are going).

Tonight is also the open­ing of Roger Mor­ris’s new show “See Noth­ing”.  Once again things are get­ting polit­i­cal, this time with a show based around “WHAT IF”? 9/11/2001.  Roger uses oil, print, graphite, monop­oly boards, jig­saw pieces and repur­posed gener­ic land­scapes to explore the theme.

Every­thing kicks off at 5.30 at This­tle Hall on Cuba Street.  Take a look at some of the works on the Face­book invite, if you are lucky you may be able to fit in Pecha Kucha after­wards.

Exposive Expression and Missed Opportunities

Our “cov­er­age” of events here at Welling­ton­ista can be a bit scat­ter­gun at times. Like the tagline says, “ran­dom stuff about New Zealand’s cap­i­tal city since 2005”.

The gen­er­al premise is that we write about stuff we like, from what­ev­er angle we like.  How­ev­er if it isn’t fea­tured, it don’t mean we don’t rate it, just means that we have been busy or some such.

Any-the-ho, last week­end was the Maori Art Mar­ket at Te Rau­para­ha Are­na and Pata­ka Gallery in Porirua.  It would have been great to see ta moko artist Mark Kop­ua at work but you snooze, you lose in this town. 

Last Wednes­day also would have been a great chance to attend a talk on Mana When­ua Maori His­to­ry in Welling­ton, giv­en by Mor­rie Love in the reopened City Gallery Welling­ton.  It was free, damnit! 

Nev­er mind. It is good that Welling­ton offers so much to the curi­ous and the brave; those who want to actu­al­ly par­tic­i­pate in the cul­tur­al life of this city.  We will con­tin­ue to fos­sick for cul­tur­al gems in the twit­ter­stream and oth­er places to alert you to what is going on out there but please for­give us if we miss some of the good stuff.

After the jump some stuff you should­n’t miss this week (includ­ing tonight!):

Coffee Art Throw-down

Twit­ter has informed us that Mojo Old Bank (@mojooldbank) and the Mojo on the Ter­race are hav­ing a cof­fee art throw-down at 6.30pm tonight at the Mojo locat­ed in the PWC Build­ing on the Ter­race (map here).

 

There is talk of beer and piz­za for those want­i­ng to watch the action.

 

I think we could be up for some cof­fee porn this evening.….

eDay on Saturday

It is eDay again tomor­row, your oppor­tu­ni­ty to put your eJunk in your trunk take it to the drop off point to get it tak­en care of respon­si­bly.  Appar­ent­ly 95% of mate­ri­als in a com­put­er can be recy­cled and reused and putting your elec­tron­ic waste into land­fill just isn’t an option because haz­ardous mate­ri­als such as lead, mer­cury and cad­mi­um can leach into the earth and get into water­ways.

Where: West­pack Sta­di­um carpark (map here)

When: Sat­ur­day 12 Sep­tem­ber

Tips for dis­pos­ing of com­put­er equipt­ment all year round are on the eDay site here.

We will see you there.