Variety Gushes Over Kiwi Film

Press release: This Way of Life
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9 August 2010
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Variety Gushes Over Kiwi Film

The world’s film review bible, Variety, has given self-funded New Zealand made documentary This Way of Life a rave review, helping in its bid to qualify for Academy Award® consideration.

Variety reviewer John Anderson describes This Way of Life as “A collision of realities - earthly nature vs. human nature” with a “very big heart…catapulting this Kiwi-made story of a Maori family beyond mere portraiture and into a realm of metaphysics, melancholia and cosmic doubt.”
The film is currently screening in New York and Los Angeles as part of the International Documentary Association's DocuWeeks™ showcase. DocuWeeks™ helps to qualify outstanding new feature documentaries for Academy Award® consideration.

Shot over four years against the isolated Ruahine mountains and beautiful Waimarama beach in Hawke’s Bay, This Way of Life follows Peter and Colleen Karena as they raise their six children off the land – a far cry from modern day lifestyles.

Producer Sumner Burstyn says the run for an Oscar nomination is very audacious.

“Being selected for the DocuWeeks™ Oscar qualifying run has been a big bonus with full houses in Los Angeles and New York over the last week.”

This Way of Life, which was made for less than US$100,000, with no crew apart from the filmmakers, Tom and Sumner Burstyn, won a Jury award at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year and recently completed a 16-week screening run at selected cinemas around New Zealand.
Read the review for yourself here: http://tiny.cc/81oa0

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