Stories of Independence

Stories of Independence
/EVENT: 31 JULY 2012, AUCKLAND

Amidst the excitement of the 2012 New Zealand International Film Festival, we talk to three Auckland-based filmmakers about making independent films with a strong and truthful voice.
Alyx Duncan (The Red House), Adam Luxton and Jeremy Dumble (We Feel Fine) have had their feature films selected to screen in this year’s film festival. Confined to the constraints of micro-budgets, these young filmmakers have kept their stories close to home, driven to capture a truth about the world that has shaped them.
Alyx Duncan’s The Red House is “an intimately observed drama of change in the lives of a deeply attached couple in their 60s”. The leads are her non-actor parents and the film reveals a ” fundamental curiosity about human life and society.” (Bill Gosden)
Jeremy Dumble and Adam Luxton’s film We Feel Fine, starring Morgana O’Reilly and The Almighty Johnsons’ Emmett Skilton, is described by Bill Gosden as a “micro-budget, made-on-the-dash art movie (that) tracks random sets of Auckland characters linked by a bizarre video project” with a “rude energy and sly disengagement from the mainstream.”
Come along to hear the filmmakers talk to director Briar March about the process behind these distinctive films.

Stay afterward for a free slice of pizza and a drink.

Drinks 7pm, 7.30 start, Tuesday 31st July, The Classic, 321 Queen Street, Auckland, $5 koha appreciated.

This event is presented in association with the New Zealand International Film Festival.

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