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.