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Oxfam Water For Survival Charity Film Evening 11 September 6.30pm Paramount “Rain of the Children”
If you missed the film “Rain of the Children” at the film festival, now is your chance and all proceeds go to Oxfam Water for Survival projects in Africa.
See below for details
I have a wod of tickets to sell so let me know how many you need. No door sales.
Stuart
Paramount Cinema ? Wellington?s oldest cinema!
25, Courtney Place
WellingtonTime: 6:30pm, Thursday 11th September
Tickets: $20 includes a glass of wine.
Proceeds to fund OWfS projects in Africa.
About the film: Rain of the Children
Rain of the Children is Vincent Ward’s deeply personal and incredibly moving film which unravels and re-imagines the story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman he documented in 1978 for his early film In Spring One Plants Alone.
Then Puhi was 80 and caring for her schizophrenic adult son, and Ward was 21, a young art student capturing her way of life. While not the subject of his earlier film, Puhi believed herself to be cursed, and this unknowable curse is what preoccupies Ward now. Puhi, he discovers, was an extraordinary woman. Chosen by Tuhoe prophet Rua Kenana to marry his son, she survived the 1916 police raid on Rua’s Maungapohatu community and went on to have 14 children.
Cutting between early footage, his own to-camera narration, contemporary interviews with Tuhoe descendents, and magnificently recreated historical sequences (featuring Rena Owen as the older Puhi among a superb cast of Maori actors); Ward reveals both the heartrending background of Puhi’s belief in the curse, and her lasting power over him.
A sell out in the New Zealand International Film Festival, 2008
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