PISA Writers' Room with Special Guest Aroha Awarau!
Sat, 29 Jul
|Kohia Centre (Auckland) + Online
This month we have a special guest - award-winning playwright, scriptwriter & journalist Aroha Awarau! He will share his experience of how to get that short film idea from your head & onto the page and provide tips of how to structure, write & turn your short film script into an award winning film!
Time & Location
29 Jul 2023, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm NZST
Kohia Centre (Auckland) + Online, Parking via Gate 2, 76 Epsom Avenue, Epsom, Auckland
About the Event
Aroha Awarau (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Porou, Niue, Samoa) is an award-winning playwright, scriptwriter and journalist who, over his career, has won numerous awards including, Pikihuia Māori Writer of the Year Award in 2015 and 2017, Best Play at the 2014 SWANZ, and New Zealand Magazine Journalist of the Year at the annual Magazine Publisher’s Association Awards in 2008 and 2011. Awarau has also produced various short stories and worked as a TV and film producer. Based in Auckland, NZ, he currently works as a freelance journalist. In terms of short films, Aroha has written and produced two short films, Home, which was funded by the NZ Film Commission’s Fresh Shorts in 2016, and Disrupt, which was funded by Nga Aho Whakaari in 2021. Both films travelled to international film festivals and have won awards including being screened at Imaginative, New Zealand International Film Festival, Puerto Rico, Russia, Berlin, Los Angeles,…
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