Thursday night saw this year’s crop of Loading Docs titles launched at an event at Auckland’s Academy Cinemas. Five of the three-minute titles are now available for viewing by online audiences, while the five titles playing the NZIFF ahead of features will be go online later on.
Introducing the films, Loading Docs creators Anna Jackson and Julia Parnell noted that last year’s crop of titles had racked up over 400,000 views, and that they hoped this year’s selection woud double that total.
Filmmakers took the stage in between screenings for brief Q&A sessions, offering some insight into the wide range of production paths taken – from a single half-day shoot in Otara Market for Hamish Bennett’s Tihei, the cyclone-threatened couple of days shooting Kusada to the six days over six weeks to explore Fantasy Cave. Read more