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NZ's first on-line Film Festival
NZ's first on-line Film Festival
Ziln, NZ’s first internet TV network celebrates its launch with New Zealand’s first on-line Film Festival.
From Friday 4th September Ziln presents ‘The New Ziln Film Festival’ that features a dozen watershed New Zealand feature films including Utu, Goodbye Pork Pie, Ngati, Desperate Remedies, Rain and more, plus New Zealand's first PPV (pay per view) movie release "When Night Falls'.
Three movies each week will screen free for 72 hours from their weekend launch night - Friday, Saturday or Sunday at 6pm - and then be available for DVD purchase through the Ziln Shop.
Week 1: 4-8 September
* Angel Mine - 1978
Rating R18 - Friday, 4 September
* Constance - 1984
Rating PG - Saturday, 5 September
* Utu - 1983 Rating PG
- Sunday, 6 September
Week 2: 11-15 September
*
Death Warmed Up - 1984 Rating R16 - Friday, 11
September
* Goodbye Pork Pie - 1981 Rating - PG -
Saturday, 12 September
* Mr Wrong - 1985 Rating M –
Sunday, 13 September
Week 3: 18-22 September
* Silvia -
1985 Rating PG - Friday, 18 September
* Ngati - 1987
Rating PG - Saturday, 19 September
* Desperate Remedies
- 1993 Rating M - Sunday, 20 September
Week 4: 25- 29
September
* Rain - 2001 Rating M - Friday, 25
September
* Orphans and Angels – 2003 Rating M
Saturday, 26 September
* 1 Nite – 2004 Rating M –
Sunday 27 September
ADDITIONAL SPECIAL PREMIERE SCREENING.
New Zealand's first ever pay per view, pay per download
film.
When Night Falls - 2007 Rating M - 6pm Sunday, 27
September
Director's Q&A - 7.30 – 8:30PM pm, on
Tuesday 29 September, available free to all those who
purchase the film.
'We are proud to be presenting this event because the Ziln mission includes strong support for locally conceived and produced content" says Ziln's director of broadcasting, Paul Brennan.. "By creating the Ziln on-line NZ Film Festival we are showing Kiwis how this new medium can create endless opportunities to screen both classic and contemporary NZ film and television content to virtually any screen -anywhere",
Ziln's festival of the New Zealand experience through the medium of the moving image.
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