Four films from the Wairoa Maori Film Festival will be recommended for special inclusion in the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival in the US. Buy Culturalism, directed and produced by Mark Sweeney, of Wellington High School; Kerosene Creek, a short film by director Michael Bennett and producer Catherine Fitzgerald; Passion& Conflict, a short documentary directed by Tony Burt; and The Little Things, a short film directed by Reina Webster and produced by Catherine Fitzgerald, which won the National Geographic All Roads special festival recommendation to be shown at the US film festival in Washington DC and Los Angeles in September. Other awards from the festival were: * Festival Patrons Indigenous Entry: Runners-Up: Raven Tales, directors Chris Kientz and Simon James; Estos Delores Somos, director Roberto Olivares Prize to: Te Toa Aniwaniwa, director and producer Robert Pouwhare. * Long Documentary (Aotearoa): Runners-Up: Hikoi Inside Out, director Kay Elmes, producer Aroha Shelford; Hone Tuwhare: The Return Home, director and producer Michelle McGregor Prize to: Tuhoe: A History of Resistance, director and producer Robert Pouwhare. * Short documentary (Aotearoa): Runners-Up: Passion and Conflict, director and producer Tony Burt; Turangawaewae: A Place to Stand, director Steven Mahoney, producer Julian McCarthy Prize to: Buy Culturalism, director and producer Mark Sweeney (Wellington High School) * Best dramatic short (Aotearoa): Runners-Up: Kerosene Creek, director Michael Bennett, producer Catherine Shelford; Tama Tu, director Taika Waititi, producers Cliff Curtis and Ainsley Gardiner. Prize to: Two Cars, One Night, director Taika Waititi, producers Ainsley Gardiner and Catherine Fitzgerald * Feature prize: Whale Rider, director Niki Caro. Festival prize: Pear Ta Ma On Maf / The Land Has Eyes, feature, directed by Vilsoni Hereniko, Rotuma, Fiji. The festival judges were Cliff Curtis, Merata Mita and Tania Cotter, who exempted themselves from judging categories in which they were entrants. Festival director Leo Koziol was jury mediator.
