The New Zealand Digital Film Festival
Loose, improvised voyeurism... heady, art-directed, cinematic vision... crackling, heart-felt politics. Since 1996, digital film-makers have been making their distinctive voices heard and this year, the medium has started to get the critical and popular attention it deserves.

Image: Erica Lowe and Luke Hawker in I Think I'm Going by Alex Greenhough The New Zealand Digital Film Festival
Loose, improvised voyeurism... heady, art-directed, cinematic vision... crackling, heart-felt politics. Since 1996, digital film-makers have been making their distinctive voices heard and this year, the medium has started to get the critical and popular attention it deserves.

Image: Erica Lowe and Luke Hawker in I Think I'm Going by Alex GreenhoughShooting on digital video enables film-makers to shoot on a cheap format using a semi-pro camera, edit on an affordable computer and - most importantly - make the films they really want to make.

Not Coming to a Multiplex Near You is a festival of some of the best digital films to come out of New Zealand in the past eight years. The programme has been co-ordinated by Chloe Laing, administrator of the Screen Innovation Production Fund (a partnership between Creative New Zealand and The New Zealand Film Commission) and includes films which have been funded by SIPF, as well as independently-funded films. The programme includes documentary, drama, comedy and experimental films, and has a different line-up each night. The festival is being produced by emerging film producer Mhairead Connor.

Says Connor: "These are all great films - and getting the chance to show them together is really exciting. These are the directors, writers and producers who will be the A-list New Zealand film-makers of the near future. Digital technology has allowed some remarkable talent to develop: film-makers can make what they want because they've got the gear and, therefore, the time to make things their way, and make them well."

People can catch this year's bumper crop of digital feature films, including Florian Habicht's Woodenhead and Gregory King's Christmas; as well as older films such as The Cloud Forest by David Eggleton and Ranitar Charitkul and Hei Tiki by Whetu Fala.

This is a timely event. Not Coming to a Multiplex Near You opens on December 1 in Wellington - the night of the world premiere of The Return of the King - and in Auckland on December 9 - the night after the New Zealand Film Awards. The festival offers people the chance to see the difference that digital technology is making at the other end of the film-making spectrum. Where would you rather be?

NOT COMING TO A MULTIPLEX NEAR YOU is supported by Creative New Zealand, Creative Communities, SONY, The Film Archive and The New Zealand Film Commission.

Wellington Auckland
BATS Theatre - December 1 - 6, 2003The Classic and MIC - December 9 - 14, 2003
Two sessions each night: 6.30pm & 8pmTwo sessions each night: 7.00 & 8.30pm
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Tickets: $10/$12 or $15 for two sessions
Tickets: $10/$12 or $15 for two sessions

A draft programme follows on the next page. The full, printed programme will be distributed in late November. For more information, please contact publicist Mel Johnston on 025 440 242 or 04 383 4942 or at scribe@actrix.co.nz

NOT COMING TO A MULTIPLEX NEAR YOU

BATS Theatre, Wellington
Monday 1st December
8:00 - 10.25
I Think I'm Going, Alex Greenhough
145 minutes

Tuesday 2nd December
6:30 - 7:30
Noise, David Downes 5 minutes
A Small Life, Michael Heath 52 minutes
8:00 - 10:25
Christmas, Gregory King 89 minutes

Wednesday 3rd December
6:30 - 7:22
Confidence in Me, Mel Johnston 52 minutes
8:00 - 9:15
.OFF., Colin Hodson 75 minutes
Thursday 4th December
6:30 - 7:39
He Tiki, Whetu Fala 1 minute
Tu Tangata: Weaving for the People, Robin Greenberg 68 minutes
8:00 - 9:52
In a Land of Plenty, Alister Barry 112 minutes
Friday 5th December
6:30 - 7:37
Untitled #2, Michael Morley 24 minutes
Telepathine, Alastair Galbraith 3 minutes
Withdrawal, Eldon Booth & Jason Crane
24 minutes
The Cloud Forest, David Eggleton & Ranitar Charitkul 5 minutes
Teleprompter, David Eggleton & Ranitar Charitkul 11 minutes

8:00 - 9:35
after - , Lynda Chanwai-Earle & Simon Raby 4 minutes
Uncomfortable, Comfortable, Campbell Walker 91 minutes

Saturday 6th December
6:30 - 7:47
The Waiting Place, Cristobal Araus Lobos
77 minutes
8:00 - 9:30
Woodenhead, Florian Habicht
90 minutes

The Classic, Auckland
Tuesday 9th December
6.30 - 7.47
The Waiting Place, Cristobel Araus Lobos
77 minutes
8:00 - 10:25
I Think I'm Going, Alex Greenhough
145 minutes

MIC, Auckland
Wednesday 10 December
7.00 - 7.57
Noise, David Downes 5 minutes
A Small Life, Michael Heath 52 minutes
8.30 - 9.59
Christmas, Gregory King 89 minutes

MIC
Thursday 11 December
7.00 - 7.52
Confidence in Me, Mel Johnston
52 minutes

8:30 - 9.45
.OFF., Colin Hodson 75 minutes
MIC
Friday 12 December
7.00 - 8.09
He Tiki, Whetu Fala 1 minute
Tu Tangata: Weaving for the People, Robin Greenberg 68 minutes
8:30 - 10.22
In a Land of Plenty, Alister Barry 112 minutes
MIC
Saturday 13th December
7.00 - 8.07
Untitled #2, Michael Morley 24 minutes
Telepathine, Alastair Galbraith 3 minutes
Withdrawal, Eldon Booth & Jason Crane 24 minutes
The Cloud Forest, David Eggleton & Ranitar Charitkul 5 minutes
Teleprompter, David Eggleton & Ranitar Charitkul 11 minutes

8:30 - 10.05
after - , Lynda Chanwai-Earle & Simon Raby
4 minutes
Uncomfortable, Comfortable, Campbell Walker 91 minutes

The Classic
Sunday 14th December 7pm
Short Fuse (programmed by the MIC)
8:00 - 9:29
The Shirt, John Laing 89 minutes