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Celebrating 50 Years Of Friendship Between NZ And Samoa
Celebrating 50 Years Of Friendship Between NZ And Samoa
Fifty years of political independence and the signing of a Treaty of Friendship between New Zealand and Samoa will be celebrated with a New Zealand Film and Television Festival broadcast on Samoa’s TV3 channel. The station is received by 90% of Samoan households.
A collaboration between the New Zealand Film Commission and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Festival will take place over two weeks from the 18th to 31st July and play between 9 – 11pm every night. It will launch with South Pacific Picture’s Polynesian comedy Sione’s Wedding, and close with Tusi Tamasese’s Samoan-language feature film, The Orator. The Festival will also screen film and television classics such as The Gibson Group’s popular comedy programmes Skitz and The Semisis; and feature films Flying Fox in the Freedom Tree, Whale Rider and The Silent One.
On January 1st 1962, Samoa became the first South Pacific country to gain independence. This followed 63 years of foreign administration – first as a colony of Germany then as a trusteeship of New Zealand under a mandate from the League of Nations. On August 1st 1962, Samoa and New Zealand signed the unique Treaty of Friendship, which underpins our relationship to this day.
The Festival schedule is below. The New Zealand Film Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade would like to acknowledge the support of the filmmakers and distributors who have agreed that TV3 may screen these films and television programmes in Samoa.
Wednesday, 18th July Sione’s Wedding
A Day in the Life
Thursday 19th July Children of the Migration
Va Tapuia
A Day in the Life
Friday 20th July No. 2
Skitz
A Day in the Life
Saturday 21st July Sons for the Return Home
Skitz
A Day in the Life
Sunday 22nd July Laughing Samoans
Monday 23rd July BOY
Tangaroa with Pio
A Day in the Life
Tuesday 24th July Black Grace
Tangaroa with Pio
A Day in the Life
Wednesday 25th July The Silent One
Tangaroa with Pio
Skitz
Thursday 26th July Tangaroa with Pio
Skitz
Friday 27th July Staunch
Hunting Show
Skitz
Saturday 28th July Flying Fox in the Freedom Tree
Hunting Show
Skitz
Sunday 29th July Whale Rider
Monday 30th July The Semisis
Tuesday 31st July The Orator
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