Dates for 2012 Confirmed
The New Zealand International Film Festival will return to Wellington from 27 July to 12 August in 2012.
We recommend putting those dates into the annual leaver planner now.
We have been inviting important friends of the Festival to share their memories from the past 40 years.
THE KID WITH A BIKE screened at the NZIFF direct from Cannes in 2011.
Celebrating 40: Kerry Robins
"The brain surgery scene had the biggest impact and seemed to trigger the audience reaction. During its season at the Paramount and as the scalpel began to make its incision, folk fled the auditorium in search of the nearest toilet." Former Embassy theatre operator Kerry Robins recalls the chaotic reactions to a certain film in 1996.
Celebrating 40: David Lindsay
"By the time of the third festival I decided that there should be a souvenir programme. The Film Society minutes record that I was going to prepare a 16 page booklet, but not the fact that I had to convince the committee that it was a good idea." Wellington Film Society president David Lindsay looks back at his early publishing initiative.
Celebrating 40: Richard King
"Following closely on the heels of the Taviani brothers’ ravishing Kaos and completely at the other end of the scale, was Mother’s Meat and Freud’s Flesh, a surreal piece involving a porn star and his domineering mother." Richard King, 2007 guest programmer, recalls an unforgettable film from the 80s.
