Award winning Kiribati film screening and Q & A

‘Oceania: Journey to the Center’. A film by Natalie Zimmerman and Tekinati Ruka

Location: Helen Smith Room
Koha entry and no need to register.

The film ‘Oceania’ has been defined as ‘a prayer, an inquiry and a call to action’ and leaves the viewer with the question: “What are we willing to do to save what makes us human?”

Pātaka Art + Museum and Porirua’s Kiribati community invite you to a screening of award winning documentary Oceania: Journey to the Center’, a film by Natalie Zimmerman and Tekinati Ruka. The screening will be followed by a Q & A session with co-creator Tekinati Ruka, facilitated by Pātaka’s Māori Moana/Pacific Curator Jacki Leota-Mua.

ABOUT THE FILM: OCEANIA: Journey to the center, begins on a coral atoll of Kiribati– predicted to become uninhabitable by the end of 2030 due to rising sea levels and temperatures brought by climate change. We are invited on a journey with a mother and her adult son as they strive to maintain their culture, freedom and independence after decades of colonizing encounters.

AWARDS
Best International Feature Film at the ECOador Film Festival in Quito
Best Female Director at the Frome Climate Film Festival in the UK

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