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We’re excited to be selected for Strength in Numbers 2020! Thanks to Script to Screen for this amazing opportunity!

We and @NZFilmCommissh are very happy to announce the six teams who have been selected to make their Fresh Shorts! 🎉🙌👏 Find out more about the filmmakers and their films 👉script-to-screen.co.nz/2001-2/ Fresh Shorts is a @nzfilm initiative run in partnership with @script_to_screen.

Excited to announce our next short film production: TUPU’ANGA / MOTHER TONGUE, to be directed by Vea Mafile’o from a screenplay by @BuchananLuciane. The project has also received a grant from Fresh Shorts. Huge thanks to Script to Screen & @NZFilmCommissh for their support!

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Another hub day done! Today we ran our second Strength in Numbers Hub with programme course leader, David Court (Compton School). Read more about Strength in Numbers: script-to-screen.co.nz/development-pr…

We're proud to share that 'My Friend Michael Jones' has been named Best Narrative Short at this year's Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival! We're so thankful to receive this award and happy this film continues to reach audiences around the world 🙌 #MFMJ #nzfilm #hrff31

24 HOURS ONLY! Stream #HRFF31 Award-Winning Shorts, one each day for the next 7 days only at HGLCF.org. Today's #film, My Friend Michael Jones (Run Charlie Films /#NewZealand), directed by Ian Leaupepe & Samson Rambo, won for Best Narrative Short. Don't miss it!

Now funding on Boosted! Go give Run Charlie Films and this all female writer - director duo (Vea Mafile'o and @BuchananLuciane) a virtual high five by giving to their project now. #BoostedNZ #BackingtheArts

NZIFF is deeply saddened at the passing of former Director Bill Gosden (ONZM). Bill died peacefully yesterday (Fri 6 Nov), five days shy of his 67th birthday. Bill helmed the film festival for almost 40 years before retiring last year due to ill health. ow.ly/cJ7050Ce5gT

Coco congrats to Writer & Actor Luciane Buchanan, Director Vea Mafile'o and their cast & crew whose short film 'Lea Tupu'anga' will have its premiere at Sundance Film Festival in January 🇹🇴 "This is love letter to our queen and her home." Luciane said in her instagram post.

LEA TUPU’ANGA / MOTHER TONGUE is premiering at #Sundance 2024 in the International Fiction Short Films Program! For info on how to attend Sundance Film Festival in-person from January 18-28 or online visit festival.sundance.org #leatupuanga

Meet the Tongan filmmakers who were selected for the infamous Sundance Film Festival over 17,000 applications 🇹🇴🎞️📽️ . Luciane Buchanan & Vea Mafile’o have taken Utah by storm with their short film Lea Tupu’anga/Mother Tongue. #TonganFilmmakers thecoconet.tv/coco-talanoa/e…

Really enjoyed attending the Sundance Film Festival screening of Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue, a New Zealand short film that tackles the gray area between cultural identity and acceptance. 🙏🏾

Lea Tupu'ana: Tongan short film about language moves audience to tears at Sundance rnz.co.nz/international/…

From homegrown First Nations voices to Māori and Sámi narratives, these are the extraordinary films vying for the inaugural First Nations Award. Proudly supported by Truant Pictures 🏆 Screening at SFF this JUNE 5-16 JUNE 🔗 Link in bio

🌟 Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival is pleased to announce the five exceptional short films in this year’s competitive strand, New Zealand's Best, as chosen by our Guest Selector, filmmaker Gerard Johnstone!

Congratulations to the winner of our NZIFF Patrons Best Short Film Award - LEA TUPU'ANGA/MOTHER TONGUE Director: Vea Mafile’o Producers: Alex Lovell, Eldon Both Screenplay: Luciane Buchanan