Director Sima Urale discusses being a South Pacific filmmaker with NZ On Screen’s Clare O’Leary: from the immigrant experience in Aotearoa (O Tamaiti, Apron Strings) to dusky maidens in velvet paintings (Velvet Dreams). Samoan-born, New Zealand-raised Urale is Samoa’s first female feature filmmaker.
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This interview is available on YouTube to distribute and share: Part One and Part Two.
Credits: Direction and Interview – Clare O’Leary, Camera and Editing – Leo Guerchmann
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by NZ On Screen | Lunchbox on 6 November 2008 at 10:48am
[...] out the interview with Director Sima Urale, who discusses being a South Pacific filmmaker: from the immigrant experience in Aotearoa (O [...]
by Cath Koa Dunsford on 30 June 2010 at 12:54pm
Mahalo Sima Urale – Totally inspirational interview – love all your films but especially Apron Strings – keep with your awesome priorities – your films and vision are unique – and brilliant – tau ke! Thanks also for your sharing at Artspeak Pasifika – kia kaha- Cath Koa Dunsford
by Karlite on 8 November 2010 at 12:55pm
Finally someone who tells it like it is. I’d love to see a feature of O Tamaiti one day. So many of our stories are non-verbal. Being Maori, growing up in and around te reo, I have that non-verbal narrative style thing going on too. Its one thing to go another country and feel like a fish out of water, but what about feeling like a stranger on your own soil. Well we’re over that now, surely. LOl. Really admire your work. Pai rawa atu. Very inspiring.
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