ROTORUA, Tuesday 10th September 2019: An opportunity for lmmakers to sell their content to international industry
executives is available at this month’s Rotorua Indigenous Film Festival (RIFF).
Now into its second year, the festival is offering indigenous film and television makers the opportunity to sell their
content to top level industry executives such as Linda O'Shaughnessy, Acquisitions manager from APTN (Canadian
Indigenous TV), as well as Anusha Lee, the Acquisitions Manager for NITV (Indigenous TV Australia).
Appointments will also be available for producers and lm makers to meet with New Zealand Film Commission, TVNZ, Prime
TV, Māori Television, Te Māngai Pāho, Radio New Zealand as well as New Zealand on Air.
Festival Director, Piripi Curtis says the opportunity is modelled on the renowned MIPCOM, an annual event held in
Cannes, providing a premium networking hub for lm makers and producers to buy and sell content from around the globe.
Curtis met Linda O'Shaughnessy when he attended MIPCOM a number of years ago and was successful in selling his own
television content to her.
“Linda and Anusha will be looking for content (which must be lmed and ready to sell) from independent producers, both
experienced and emerging, to create and share unique stories that inspire and lead to a greater understanding of
indigenous people and culture”.
“The best outcome we can hope for is that our producers get to sign a deal to sell their shows into Australia and Canada
as this will help strengthen our local indigenous lm and television industry while growing our connections to our
indigenous brothers and sisters abroad.” says Curtis.
These exclusive 15-minute appointments will only be open to registered members of RIFF. You can register at www.riffnz.com
The Rotorua Indigenous Film Festival is part of the Aronui Arts Festival in Rotorua, which has already kicked off this
month. It is showcasing a diverse range of art forms including theatre, te reo Māori, music, writing, visual and
traditional art as well as lm. This is an opportunity for world-class local, national and eventually international
indigenous talent to come together and celebrate in a boldly indigenous space.
The Rotorua Indigenous lm festival is a three-day event that begins September 26th bringing some of the best indigenous
lms from around the world. RIFF was created by a group of award-winning Rotorua lm makers, Piripi Curtis, Mike Jonathan
and Lara Northcroft of the Steambox Film Collective.
The RIFF programme is available to view here: www.riffnz.com/programme
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