Announcing the Ocean Love Film Festival, a collaboration between Peggy Oki (Origami Whales Project, Cetaceans.org) and Phil McCabe (Kiwis Against Seabed Mining – KASM).
The Ocean Love Film Festival presents a series of documentary screening events accompanied by talks from ocean advocates and experts, held over four weeks in Whāingaroa.
The programme features three feature-length documentaries, followed by a fourth event showcasing short films and presentations by Project Reef Taranaki and Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) – long-running community initiatives dedicated to understanding and protecting marine environments.
Venue: Stewart Street Church Hall, Raglan
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The “Ocean Love Film Series” aims to bring together Ocean loving people from all walks of life to educate and inspire. The series of evening story-telling events through films and talks by Ocean advocates will highlight the beauty and wonder of the aquatic world, and focus on the importance of our local and global Ocean and how we can create change.
Life in Whāingaroa revolves around the Ocean. It always has. Tangata whenua hold mana moana and have enduring kaitiakitanga practices relating to the local marine environments. Not without challenges, past and present.
Today, a large portion of our community engage with the ocean daily through surfing, swimming, paddling, boating, sailing, fishing, walking or simply enjoying the ever changing seascape. Our individual relationships with the Moana often lead to deep care for its wellbeing.
How do we, as a community, build our ability to collectively care for and protect our local marine environment and its many inherent values?
Screening Schedule:
How Deep Is Your Love – Friday 13 February
Doors open: 7.30pm
Programme starts: 8.00pm
OUTDOORS (on the lawn; Church Hall as wet-weather backup)
togetherfilms.org/films/how-deep-is-your-love/
Ocean (narrated by Sir David Attenborough) Wednesday 18 February
Doors open: 6.30pm
Screening: 7.00pm
INDOORS – Church Hall
silverbackfilms.tv/shows/oceanwithdavidattenborough/
The Last Ocean Wednesday 25 February
Doors open: 6.30pm
Screening: 7.00pm
INDOORS – Church Hall
www.lastocean.org
Project Reef Taranaki Friday 6 March
Doors open: 7.30pm
Programme starts: 8.00pm
OUTDOORS (on the lawn; Church Hall as wet-weather backup)
A regionally and nationally recognised project documenting the subtidal rocky reef communities of the South Taranaki Bight.
www.projectreefsouthtaranaki.org/
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM)
Founded in Raglan in 2005, KASM has spent 21 years defending Aotearoa’s seabed and ocean and continues to lead efforts to stop seabed mining before it starts.
