This little indie film feels like the defibrillator the NZ film industry didn’t know it needed – a necessary jolt to the system that reminds us what cinema made with heart, guts, and purpose can look like.
The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani has been busy flitting around from event to event. Here is her report on Tiffin Box, Camp Be Better and Show Me Shorts.
The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani checks out the grand opening of VENDOR by Goodspace– An unconventional album release and interdisciplinary installation reimagining the artist as vendor, album as the menu and music as the meal.
This year marked the 10th anniversary of Loading Docs, an initiative dedicated to platforming emerging and established filmmakers from Aotearoa to produce resonant documentary shorts that challenge and inspire.
The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani headed south to Christchurch to take in the WORD CHCH Literature Festival. Here is her report:
The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani has been busy sitting in the dark, catching as many NZIFF as she can including The Substance on Closing Night. Here is her review and a summary of what was good and not so good at the Film Festival.
Sasquatch Sunset is an absurdist feature dramedy that follows a family of sasquatches in their North American habitat over the span of a year. If you were to read the plot on paper, you would probably think the film is absolutely bonkers, but somehow it just works (despite the absence of dialogue!).
13th Floor coverage of the New Zealand International Film Festival continues. The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani shares her thoughts on these three films:
