When disaster strikes community rises!
We have made a feature documentary film ‘Taking Back our Beach’ that captures the heartfelt stories from the Bay of Plenty and Mount Maunganui community who responded to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster – the MV Rena hitting Astrolabe Reef (Ōtāiti) on October 5, 2011.
The film has screened once in Auckland and once in Wellington as part of the Doc Edge Festival, and is available to view online until July 12, 2023 as part of the Doc Edge Virtual Cinema, but we still need your help to raise the funds to pay for TVNZ stock footage fees and other distribution costs so that we can bring the film ‘Taking Back our Beach’ to NZ cinemas in October 2023.
We have a licence to use the TVNZ footage for the Doc Edge Festival but need to pay a further $15,000 to license the film to be shown in NZ cinemas and overseas.
We are asking for your help please to raise these funds as quickly as possible, and have set up a Givealittle page for that – https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/animating-penguins-for-film
Those who donate (and provide us with their contact details if donating anonymously) will be invited to the premiere screening of ‘Taking Back our Beach’ on October 5, 2023 at United Cinemas, Bayfair, Mount Maunganui, and will have their names in the film credits.
Please help support this film that celebrates “the power of individuals to make change for good” – Interviewee Pin de Monchy.
To watch it online now until 12 July 2023 on the Doc Edge Virtual Cinema festival link: https://docedge.nz/films/taking-back-our-beach)
Thank you
Rosalie Liddle Crawford & Anton Steel