#docnz

[tomwoodwardvideos]

Went back to #kahuranginationalpark to search for caves in remote areas and found more bones of the extinct #giantmoa #bird that used to roam these mountains. #islandgigantism #moa #paleontology #cave #caving #instabird #newzealand #extinctanimals #departmentofconservation #docnz (at Kahurangi National Park)

[reneeazureandfamily-blog]

Really old flash back. 28/10/2011 Top of Parihaka, Whangarei. Natures views bring joy to my heart. • • #Whangarei #whangareiloveithere #parihakasummit #parihakanorthland #northland #views #nature #walkingtracks #rosstrack #walking #tracks #DOCnz #nz #newzealand #photography #photographer #nzphotography #nzphotographer #naturephotography #naturephotographer #newzealandphotography #newzealandphotographer #nature #trees #theclimb #mountaintop #mountainviews #mountain (at Mt Parihaka Lookout)

[wayfairen]

Sunrise kissing the top of Mueller Glacier, Mt Cook national park. Oh my, it's been a privilege to sleep under the moon, stars and wake up to magnificent views like this one 😍😍😍🙏❤ #muellerglacier #mtcook #docnz #nz #nzsouthisland #newzealand #mountain #mountainlife #travel #digitalnomad #locationindependentcoach #coach #visitnewzealand #roadtrip #glacier #visitnz #snow #ice #blessed #grateful #thankful #attitudeofgratitude (at Mueller Glacier)

[globetrottingkiwi]

Hiking volcanoes, soaking in thermal hotpools and wandering through a redwood forest sure makes for a great birthday with family. It's been a while since I've celebrated my birthday back in New Zealand and this one was as "kiwi" as ever! Churrr. . . . #spotthekiwi #Hiking #tongariro #nationalpark #tamalakes #taranakifalls #northerncircuit #nzgreatwalk #docNZ #mtruapehu #glacierlake #volcanic #volcanoes #northislandnz #Aotearoa #birthdayhike (at Tongariro National Park)

[iambenjiijackson]

Femme Fitness - DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival

Having completed a successful season in Auckland, the DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival takes its diverse selection of features across the rest of the country until late November, hot off perhaps one of it's biggest years since the inception of the festival three years ago. Given that the trend of documentary film making has become a 'happening' platform for directors that has only become more and more popular over the past five years, the testament of the festival's need in Auckland saw tickets sell out well in advance and impressing critics with their programming this year; mixing together the best around the world have to offer with the New Zealand contingent of directors emerging onto the scene – and are currently rivalling many of their overseas contemporaries.

Julian Shaw, director of “Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story” , scooped two awards at the illustrious DOCNZ Awards Ceremony, with his feature winning “Best New Zealand Film – Medium Length” and “Best Emerging Director”, joining Weijun Chen's “Please Vote For Me” as a double award winner. Shaw's work has been picked up across the world, including the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival. Shaw's next work, “Cup Of Dreams”, examines this country’s love affair with the national game – Rugby, and is set for a cinematic release in 2008, coming off the praise he received from this year's festival.

South African Weijun Chen's work, a documentary showing a primary school class in China go through a democratic process to decide on a new class monitor and the lengths the children and parents will go to for the victory, picked up “Best International Documentary – Medium Length” and “Best Educational Documentary” and has already amassed awards across documentary festivals around the world, including picking up a big win at the SilverScrolls Festival in North America.

Meanwhile, Justin Pemberton's “The Nuclear Comeback”, a film based on the idea of bringing Nuclear energy to New Zealand as a viable energy source, picked up “Best New Zealand Documentary – Feature Length” despite its somewhat controversial topic. Pemberton's work has been commissioned also by TVNZ, who are looking to show the documentary in the very near future.

The integration of New Zealand documentaries alongside those from oversees has been a long term goal for the festival, now in it's third year, as festival co-director/co-founder Alex Lee highlighted during the awards - “We need to show that documentary film making is an important artform and that more funding should be available for those in this country to pursue it.” to a rapturous applause from those in attendance. Co-director Ewa Bigio also reflected on the trials of bringing together the festival by asking funding bodies to look more closely at the current documentary film making infrastructure.

However, the international movies haven't been overlooked in contrast to the budding New Zealand talent; “The 11th Hour”, an environmental film produced by Hollywood A-Lister Leonardo DiCaprio examing how we could be on the brink of a complete natural breakdown, saw queues spanning the length of Auckland City Library to view the movie, and Spike Lee's Emmy-award winning “When The Levees Broke”, highlighting the problems in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, was highly praised by New Zealand critics for its stunning panorama despite its unfortunate context. Cynthia Wade's “Freeheld”, one of the highlights of this year's international selection, has also just been shortlisted for a possible nomination at the 80th Academy Awards, to be held next February.

The DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival makes its way to Wellington from November 8th and is the last chance to be a part of this year's incredible, trail-blazing season.

[thisisourplacewellington-blog]

Aeon (2004) Directed by Richard Sidey. 

Aeon (Sidey 2004) is an experimental documentary that captures the Wellington CBD through a series of several time lapses. The documentary was largely inspired by Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio 1982), an experimental film that uses sped up or slowed down footage of both natural landscape and cityscape to display how humanity has become distant from nature. In Aeon, the cityscape is represented though the juxtaposition between the creativity of Wellington and its economic and political functions. The cityscape shots are then furthered juxtaposed against the natural landscape and the town belt that surrounds the Wellington CBD.

Sidey made Aeon as part of his Visual Communication Design Degree at Massey University of Wellington. Sidey shot the film over a fourth month period, collating over 50 hours of footage. Aeon went on to win best short documentary at the DocNZ Film Festival in 2005 and best student film at the American Conversation Film Festival in 2007 (“Aeon”).

WORKS CITED:

GALAXIID. “Aeon”. Vimeo. 23 June. 2011. Web video. 07 May. 2016.

< https://vimeo.com/25501640>

Koyaanisqats. Dir. Godfrey Reggio. IRE Productions, 1982. Film.

[awhong]

Lake Rotoiti towards Mount Robert and St Arnaud Range #lakerotoiti #nelsonlakesnationalpark #Tasman #starnand #mountrobert #lake #wharf #mountains #nature #docnz #southisland #newzealand #purenz #discover_newzealand #wanderer #travel #iphoneogram #instatravel #wanderlust #voyage #awhsome #wandererescapade (at Lake Rotoiti, New Zealand)

[russelljsmith]

Red Tarns Track, Aoraki / Mt Cook National Park #Aoraki #AorakiMountCook #AorakiMountCookNationalPark #RedTarnsTrack #SouthernAlps #Mackenzie #mackenzieCountryNZ #DOCNZ #NZGeoPhoto #NZGeo #DoSomethingNewNZ #PureNewZealand #NewZealand #Aoteroa #MightyCampers #RechargeSeasonNZ #PlanetUrth @Urth #Olympus #OlympusOMD #ExploringOlympus #OlympusInspired #getOlympus #OMDEM10 #OMDEM10mkii #Lightroom #SigmaPhotoNZ #SigmaLens #Sigma16mmF14 (at Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/COxNEEjsX6H/?igshid=13yhhdpb95yzu