New Zealand poetry filmmaker Charles Olsen just wrote to let us know about this fabulous-sounding new festival, scheduled for November 2-3, 2023 in Wellington. Here’s the press release:

Submissions are now open for the Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival 2023

 

The Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival is an event entirely devoted to the celebration and showcase of poetry film in New Zealand. Poetry film or video poetry is a fast-growing art form that combines poetry, moving images, sound and music. We would like to invite film-makers and poets of any age and backgrounds to participate in the first edition of the Festival which will take place in November 2023 in Wellington. In particular, we encourage the submission of innovative and eclectic takes on poetry film as a distinct media form.

 

The Festival will feature a poetry film competition, workshops, seminars, poetry readings and retrospectives and it will offer the opportunity to showcase the diversity of poetry film produced both in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas. The 2023 Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival is organised in collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington.

 

Submissions open: 1 February 2023

Submission deadline: 15 August 2023

Event: 2-3 November 2023

Website: https://www.aotearoapff.com/

FilmFreeway Page: https://filmfreeway.com/AotearoaPoetryFilmFestival-1

For more info please contact: aotearoapff@gmail.com