Toki Pounamu Film Festival Review
On Thursday the 14th of November, the Toki Pounamu team were hosting
a film festival at the Regent Theatre, Greymouth. The film festival was made
to show schools videos involving the idea of, ‘Our Place,’ for the schools and
students within the Toki Pounamu cluster. People entered their movies they
made including the native bush, gold mining, ocean, coal mining, histories,
etc. The schools that entered into the event were Karoro School, Greymain
School, Saint Patricks, Kaniere School, Paparoa Range, Kumara School, Paroa
School and Blaketown School.
All these schools entered in videos and there was one particular movie I
enjoyed. The one I liked the most was the movie made by Saint Patricks. Their
movie was about the dangers the environment is facing and what we are
doing to help. They talked about the pollution in the oceans throughout the coast
wide and even greater, world wide. In their video they interviewed the old mayor,
Tony Kokshoorn to gather some information. Tony talked about DOC looking after
80% of the native bush/ environment, building a new recycling pit and Greymouth
citizens doing their part to resolve the matter of global warming. The students of
Saint Patrick's asked, “If we do not make a change would our next generations
have a future?”
Tony replied, “Yes they would, but not a very good one.” The video they made wa
s entertaining and was very well filmed with great sound with clear voices and a
great understanding of the movie.
The way the Toki Pounamu team chose the videos to put into the 1 hour time
limit that were entered, was definitely a fair decision. Some videos had some
restrictions that were unsuitable for younger students that were attending the
film festival event. I agree that this was a good decision they chose to do and I
support it.
