Award winning Kiribati film screening and Q & A

KOHA ENTRY:

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