The Little Kiwi Film That is Stealing the Hearts of America

The Little Kiwi Film That is Stealing the Hearts of America

Fresh from sweeping 3 out of 4 Awards for documentary at the NZ Film Awards, Hip Hop-eration has just taken out the prestigious Audience Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival beating out major US and international studio films and new releases. http://variety.com/2015/film/news/bang-bang-baby-hip-hop-eration-win-at-santa-barbara-film-festival-1201427366/\

Director Bryn Evans was at the Awards evening and accepted the Award on behalf of the filmmakers.

Producers Paula Jones and Alex Lee said: “We are stunned by the Award. Our Kiwi documentary competed against fiction features and came up tops among audiences. This is an amazing US premiere start in sharing our taonga on the US circuit. We're very humbled by this honour.”

Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is an eleven-day film festival taking place in Santa Barbara, California since 1986.

In 2014, the festival screened over 200 films to over 85,000 audiences, including feature films and short films, from different countries and regions. Besides screenings, the festival also contains different sections, including celebrity tributes, industry panels and education programs. http://sbiff.org/about/the-festival/

The film continues its festival circuit after Santa Barbara International Film Festival with screenings at Big Sky Documentary Festival (Montana), Tempo Documentary Festival (Sweden), Cleveland International Film Festival (Ohio), Boulder International Film Festival (Ohio), One World International Human Rights Film Festival (Prague), Doc Aviv (Tel Aviv), Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Thessaloniki), Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival (Massachusetts), Perth Festival of the Arts (Perth) and Planete Doc (Warsaw).

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