Shifting Sands 1999

Shifting Sands at
World Cinema Showcase
1999

The New Zealand Film Festival Trust, organisers of the annual mid-winter film festivals, have announced a new touring event, the World Cinema Showcase. Director Bill Gosden is eager “…to retain an institution that provides exposure for some of the excellent films that are continually excluded from the increasinglyn mainstreamed flow of cinema releases in New Zealand.”

Currently confirmed dates are:
Wellington; Paramount and Embassy, April 8 -22
Christchurch; Academy, April 15 - 28
Dunedin; Regent, April 22 - May 9
Nelson; Suter, May 13 - 26
Auckland; Village St. James, may 20 - June 2
Whangarei; Cinema City, May 27 - June 9

The 1999 Showcase includes Shifting Sands. This series of six powerful new shorts by Aboriginal filmmakers in Australia was commissioned by the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission. “In the area of film and documentary alone there exists about 4500 hours documenting [Aboriginal] lives. Apart from a few exceptions, all the films were made by whites … At last indigenous film-makers have been given a chance to tell their stories from their own perspective in Shifting Sands … While the stories are indigenous dramas, the themes are universal; land, family, relationships, home and identity.” - Amanda Meade - The Australian.

Shifting Sands is distributed by AFI and will be presented in NZ by MIC. The programme features Grace by Wesley Enoch, My Bed Your Bed by Erica Glynn, Passing Through by Mark Olive, Promise by Michelle Torres, Tears by Ivan Sen, and My Colour, Your Kind by Danielle Maclean.

Specific screening times are:
Wellington: Paramount: Friday 9th at 1:30pm; Sunday 18th at 3:30pm; Tuesday 20th at 7:00pm
Christchurch: Friday 23rd at 5pm; Sunday 25th at 3:30pm
Dunedin: Wednesday 5th at 6:15pm; Saturday 8th at 1pm