SEWN - New Zealand Seen through longboarders
New doco has longboarding SEWN up this summer.
One Show only! Thursday 23rd February, 6.30pm
SEWN (which is an acronym for south east west north), is the title of the first New Zealand-made longboarding film in over a decade. The film’s internet promotional campaign in three languages – English, French and Spanish – has got worldwide audiences excited.
SEWN will be shown over the 2011/2012 summer around New Zealand at a number of venues including cinemas, pubs, wineries, and marae. After a film festival run in 2012, it will also be available on DVD from selected stores.
Longboarding is a surfing discipline using boards longer than 9 feet (2.84m). Longboarders are entrancing to watch as they literally seem to be walking on water.
Directed and produced by award-winning French filmmaker and longboarder Nicolas Brikke, who has been based in New Zealand for more than five years, SEWN takes us south, east, west and north around the four stunning coasts of the North Island of New Zealand.
SEWN takes us within the longboarding experience, and brings us up close and personal to the surfing action via Brikke’s outstanding camera work.
On each coast, we meet up with a surfer from an older generation who came through the shortboarding revolution, yet remained true to the longboard. We’ll also meet a surfer from a younger generation who lives and surfs with a similar spirit and passion. SEWN explores why these people chose longboarding, and how it is an important part of their lives. SEWN shows that to be a surfer in New Zealand is to have an intrinsic connection to the land, sea and surf through the Māori meanings behind landmarks and place names.
The doco’s production team includes Will Moore, a director and editor who has worked with company Fish n Clips productions and on the music videos of some of New Zealand’s best-known artists, including Brooke Fraser, Scribe and the Mint Chicks.
It includes Paul Wedel, a Canadian director, editor and producer who has had films screened in New Zealand film festivals; and Kirsten Berrett, a graduate from the New Zealand Film and Television School, who has worked as an actress, and in production for several films.
website www.sewn.co.nz
SCREENING FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY,
A FUNDRAISER TO SUPPORT REFUGEE-BACKGROUND
COMMUNITIES IN THE WELLINGTON REGION.
ChangeMakers Refugee Forum presents
the critically acclaimed, award-winning film:YES MADAM, SIR
(View trailer here)
$20 TICKET PURCHASE includes prizes and treats from RJ’s Licorice,
Commonsense Organics, The Guava Tree, and Nicky Walker.
WHEN: TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY
6:30pm for raffles and prizes, film starts at 7pm
WHERE: PARAMOUNT CINEMA
BOOK at www.paramount.co.nz or call 04-384-4080 or door sales available.FOR MORE INFORMATION: CARINA or TIM | carina@crf.org.nz | 04-801-5812 | www.crf.org.nz
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2012
8th -25th March
The 2012 French Film Festival will be held at the Paramount March 8th -25th. Programmes are available and tickets are on sale now!
