Haka and Guitars headlines Raglan Film Festival
Raglan Film Festival opens Friday, September 15 at 7pm with a Kiwi film Haka and Guitars, fine food and continues with
bevy of international films.
The international line-up includes My Pet Dinosaur for the kids, The Artist’s Garden for art lovers and gardeners, an
Italian comedy of manners - Perfect Strangers, legendary skate movie - Lords of Dogtown, a hard-hitting exploration of
USA race relations - I am Not Your Negro and a look at the life of influential rapper Tupac in All Eyez on Me.
Hastings filmmaker William Watson brings Haka and Guitars to the Raglan Film Festival opening night.
The award-winning documentary recently screened at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and has picked up a string of
awards including best world peace documentary in the Artisan Festival International World Peace Initiative.
Attending the opening night screening, Watson will discuss the highs and lows of a film that was 12-years in the making.
Set during the Pacific’s most bloody Civil War, the New Zealand Army found a way to achieve peace without guns and
violence. Through the powerful influence of women and multiculturalism Haka and Guitars shows the world there is a way
to achieve peace in our time.
Former NZ Army Major Fiona Cassidy (NgatiKuri, Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa) returns to Bougainville to reflect on ‘Operation
Belisi’, modern history’s most successful peacekeeping mission.
Check out this gem of a Kiwi film on opening night plus the bonus feature of Leanna & Dan a documentary on Fire Fighter stair climbing competitions and get in quick for tickets which includes food cooked
by Raglan kaumatua and a drink.
Support the local kaumatua and head down to the Old School for choice kai for sale from 5pm for those not attending the
film - $5 for seafood chowder or pumpkin soup and fry bread, $2.50 for delicious Top Cut sausage and bread, $2 for fry
bread, butter and golden syrup.
Haka and Guitars
Friday, September 15 – food on sale from 5pm, bar opens at 7pm and movie begins at 8pm
Adults $15, Concession $12, Children $8– ticket prices include food and a drink. Licensed bar available. Book online: raglanmovies.nz.
All other festival tickets Adults $15, Concession $12, Children $8, Multi-entry Special – six sessions for the price of
four $60.
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