Recent Announcements
Great War Stories Screens on TV3 News 4-10 August 6:30pm
  MONDAY 4th – LADY LIVERPOOL – the home front TUESDAY 5th – KEITH CALDWELL –- ace pilot WEDNESDAY 6th – RIKIHANA CARKEEK – the Native Contingent THURSDAY 7th – LEONARD HART – Passchendaele FRIDAY 8th – DR HENRY PICKERILL & DR HAROLD GILLIES – Surgeons SATURDAY 9th – MARK BRIGGS – Conscientious Objector SUNDAY 10th – BESS – War Horses |
New series of Great War Stories for TV3
 We are telling stories of New Zealanders - men, women, Maori and Pakeha - and one horse, Bess, in short documentaries to screen as part of TV3 News. The first series will screen later this year on TV3 in prime time and then be posted on the relevant websites. The series is funded by NZ On Air. This is an exciting collaboration with our wonderful archives, a rich treasure trove of personal stories - the Alexander Turnbull Library, Archives NZ and the Ministry for Culture & Heritage. Photo 1: Researcher David Filer, Mark Jennings TV3, with Rosemary Fullerton-Smith and Anna Cottrell at the launch at the National Library. |
2014 Food for Thought - Talk & Taste Series
 Food in the Gallipoli Trenches - Glyn Harper, historian, author & professor of War Studies at Massey University, talked about the appalling food dished out to soldiers in the Gallipoli trenches. We even got to try some real ANZAC biscuits. Jewish Rituals & Recipes - Martin Chait fabulous story-teller entertained 50 people at Pataka talking about the Jews flight from Egypt and sharing food, made by Jayne Chait, associated with the Passover. Food in Art & Film - Samoan NZ film maker & teacher Sima Urale talked about Food in Art & Film...accompanied by some sensational Samoan delicacies to taste. More info, photos and video clips at: www.migratingkitchen.org |
Strawberries with the Fuhrer on TV3 Anzac Day
 It is the story of Helga Tiscenko from Timaru whose German officer father was executed at the end of the war. |
Women of the Chathams
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Migrating Kitchen @ Moore Wilson's in Wellington during October
 The Migrating Kitchen celebrating refugee & migrant stories - now on at Moore Wilson's in Wellington. DVDs playing, Food cooking - Mondays to Wednesdays in October. |
Out of the Shadows screening on Heartland 29 September 7.30pm
 The Muldoon family, Tom Hunt son of Sam, Hinemoa Awatere daughter of Donna, Martin Crump son of Barry and the Turners, Glenn and Sukhi's kids, describe what it's like when your parents are well known public figures. Heartland Channel - 29th September at 7.30pm. |
Running For Their Lives Documentary Update & Thank you! Wednesday 12 September
 Guest speaker: Roger Moses, Headmaster of Wellington College Where: NZ Film Archive, corner Ghuznee & Taranaki Streets When: Wednesday 12 September 2012 @ 5.30 - 6.30pm P: 0274575 695 |
Anne Frank exhibition opens in Auckland Tuesday 4 September
 Lest We Forget an AC Productions documentary in which Holocaust survivors tell their stories, has been screening with the exhibition, Anne Frank: a history for today as it has toured the country for over two years. There will be an address by Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage, The Hon Chris Finlayson. My thanks to the Chairman of the exhibition, Boyd Klap CNZM, QSO for asking me to make the documentary during which I met so many interesting people with devastating stories of courage and survival. More info on the documentary: Lest We Forget Please contact me if you would like a copy of the 30' documentary Email: anna.c.cottrell@gmail.com |
Strawberries with The Fuhrer screens August 31st
 Where: The Film Archive, Wellington. When: Friday, 31 August 2012. Time: 12:15pm Running time: 30 + 15 minutes. Ticket price: $8 incl. cup of soup. "German New Zealander Helga Tiscenko’s war story is one few other New Zealanders might have listened to sympathetically when she settled here. Now she talks to filmmaker Amy O’Connor about the privileges and subsequent travails of growing up the daughter of an intelligent, loving father who happened to be a Nazi General. As a child she thrilled to choruses of Sieg Heil! She was chosen to share the eponymous strawberries on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday when she presented him with a bouquet of forget-me-nots and was invited to stay for ice cream. ‘If he had asked me to die for him there and then I would have done so’, she says, ‘unquestioningly’. Her father would eventually be executed for war crimes, and her own escape from the Allied advance was fraught with danger. In her 70s she wrote her memoirs partly to address the conundrum of a good father who became instrumental in an evil regime. With fitting modesty, O’Connor’s film allows Helga’s salutary tale to exemplify the susceptibility of young and old to messianic charisma." More info on the documentary: Strawberries with The Fuhrer — New Zealand International Film Festival 2011 |
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