NZ Doco 'The Last Resort' to screen in Waitakere

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NZ festival documentary 'The Last Resort' to screen in Waitakere City Tues 13th and Hokitika, Twizel, Takaka and Napier this month.

The independently made feature documentary The Last Resort will screen on Tuesday the 13th of March at 8pm as a part of the Eco Film Festival in Waitakere City. The film also screens in Napier, Hokitika, Takaka & Twizel this month. Visit: www.cutcutcut.com for session times and info.

This is the second feature documentary from Wellington based filmmakers Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones, the two-person team that is CutCutCut. The film premiered and screened in eight of the NZ International Film Festivals around the country last year, with additional screenings in Mahia, the Wairoa Maori Film Festival and recently the 2007 Nelson Summer Film festival.

Press Quotes:

BEST FILMS OF 2006: The Last Resort. Dominion Post - Illuminating the truth and true stories

"If you live in New Zealand... you owe it to yourself to see this film at least once." - Graeme Tuckett - Dominion Post/Radio New Zealand.

"Of all the documentaries made in recent years in NZ, this is the most important and should be seen as widely as possible." - Alister Barry - Director: Someone Elses Country, In a Land Of Plenty

"Tale of Kiwiana lost - moving, poignant" - Mark Orton - Otago Dailty Times

"Moving and disturbing in equal measures" - Margaret Agnew. The Press

Synopsis:

In a place they call 'Sleepy Hollow', a half-century old coastal campground - beloved by locals and visitors alike - is closed one summer to make way for a multi-million dollar residential subdivision. As the campers are moved on - the locals move in, for a seven week-long occupation protesting their rightful claim to the land.

Around the country real estate is booming, leaving developers and agents flush and first home buyers priced out of the market.

High country pastoral leases are sold off to wealthy foreigners wanting their own 'slice of paradise', whilst the South Island rivers die 'deaths by a thousand cuts'.

Trans-national corporations are ranked in an annual 'hall of shame' awards night, according to the degree to which they exploit New Zealanders.

An international breach of human rights law is perpetuated despite thousands marching on Parliament to prevent it.

Government legislation further loosening one of the world’s most liberal overseas investment regimes is pushed through bureaucratic process at lightning speed.

The founding constitutional document of this small settler nation is debated, discredited and disregarded.

This is 21st Century New Zealand where the land wars still rage and 'colonisation by corporation' leaves us tenants in our own home.

Reviews, previews & information available at: www.cutcutcut.com

The Last Resort is currently screening in, Napier, Dunedin,
Martinborough, Motueka

Screening Times:

Eco Film Festival
Tuesday 13th March 8pm
Sustainable Living Centre, 4 Olympic Place New Lynn.
Bookings essential! Limited seats available
Phone 826 0555 or email slc@ecomatters.org.nz

Napier - Century Cinema
Saturday 10th, 11th and 14th March
www.centurycinema.co.nz

Dunedin - Academy Cinema
Beginning Friday 9th February 2007 - Visit site for session times:
www.theacademycinema.co.nz

Motueka - The Gecko Theatre
Beginning Thursday 15th February 2007 - Visit site for session times:
www.geckotheatre.co.nz

Martinborough - Circus Cinema
Beginning Friday 9th February 2007 - Visit site for session times:
www.circus.net.nz

Takaka - The 2007 Golden Bay International Film Festival
The Village Theatre - 23rd March & 2nd April

Twizel - Big Sky Movies
29th March

Hokianga - The Great Hokianga Film Festival
1st - 4th June 2007 - Queens Birthday Weekend.

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