Internationally recognised filmmakers, artists, and writers contributed to this unique film project to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Twenty-two short films inspired by the six themes of the Declaration – culture, development, dignity and justice, environment, gender, and participation – will be shown.
The afternoon begins with a 30-minute screening from Mäori filmmaker Dean Hapeta’s six-part ‘rapumentary’ Ngätahi – Know the Links, about native and marginalised peoples’ arts and activism in twenty countries. Hapeta shows part five of his series, which features interviews and music from the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Nablus, Ireland’s Belfast and Derry, and Manila and Baguio in the Philippines.
Taking ‘rap’ as an acronym for ‘rhyme and percussion’, a ‘rapumentary’ is a hip-hop infused music documentary featuring spoken word performance interwoven with music.
New Zealand filmmaker Armagan Ballantyne, director of The Strength of Water, will show Lilly and Ra, her short film on the theme of gender, and is available for questions after
The afternoon concludes with a panel discussion on human rights issues in New Zealand and globally. Ballantyne and Hapeta will be joined on the panel by Fariba Hachtroudi and Dr Judy McGregor from the Human Rights Commission.