World Cinema Showcase 2007
Media Release | January 2007
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust is pleased to brighten up your autumn movie-going options with the ninth annual World Cinema Showcase. Like a miniature version of the winter event the Showcase premieres a selection of fresh, stimulating, and provocative films from around the world and provides exposure for some exceptional films and filmmakers who aren’t assured of a release in New Zealand.
While long term festival director Bill Gosden takes a well deserved break, guest programmer Richard King has been working hard to fill this year’s programme with international drama, exciting new directors, big-name stars as well as stars in the making, quality documentaries and refurbished classics.
Highlights include:
» The New Zealand premiere screenings of The Namesake, the new film by Monsoon Wedding director, Mira Nair (Auckland & Wellington only).
» A rare chance to see Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn at their very best, as John Huston’s The African Queen makes a welcome return to the big screen.
» Emily Barclay’s (In My Father’s Den) award winning performance in Australian feature Suburban Mayhem.
» Little Children, the highly anticipated second feature by In the Bedroom director Todd Field, starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly.
» Catch a Fire, a rousing political thriller by renowned Australian director Phillip Noyce (Rabbit Proof Fence) set in South Africa in the turbulent 1980s.
» A plethora of music documentaries and music-themed feature films – including Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing and The U.S. vs. John Lennon.
» Foreign language films from France, Germany, Sweden, Cuba, Italy, Vietnam and more.
Festival dates:
» Auckland, Academy Cinema: March 15 – April 4
» Wellington, Paramount: March 29 – April 11
» Christchurch, Rialto Cinemas: April 12 – 25
» Dunedin, Regent Theatre: April 19 – May 5
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust is pleased to brighten up your autumn movie-going options with the ninth annual World Cinema Showcase. Like a miniature version of the winter event the Showcase premieres a selection of fresh, stimulating, and provocative films from around the world and provides exposure for some exceptional films and filmmakers who aren’t assured of a release in New Zealand.
While long term festival director Bill Gosden takes a well deserved break, guest programmer Richard King has been working hard to fill this year’s programme with international drama, exciting new directors, big-name stars as well as stars in the making, quality documentaries and refurbished classics.
Highlights include:
» The New Zealand premiere screenings of The Namesake, the new film by Monsoon Wedding director, Mira Nair (Auckland & Wellington only).
» A rare chance to see Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn at their very best, as John Huston’s The African Queen makes a welcome return to the big screen.
» Emily Barclay’s (In My Father’s Den) award winning performance in Australian feature Suburban Mayhem.
» Little Children, the highly anticipated second feature by In the Bedroom director Todd Field, starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly.
» Catch a Fire, a rousing political thriller by renowned Australian director Phillip Noyce (Rabbit Proof Fence) set in South Africa in the turbulent 1980s.
» A plethora of music documentaries and music-themed feature films – including Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing and The U.S. vs. John Lennon.
» Foreign language films from France, Germany, Sweden, Cuba, Italy, Vietnam and more.
Festival dates:
» Auckland, Academy Cinema: March 15 – April 4
» Wellington, Paramount: March 29 – April 11
» Christchurch, Rialto Cinemas: April 12 – 25
» Dunedin, Regent Theatre: April 19 – May 5
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