Toki Pounamu Film Festival

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

On Thursday the 14th of November, the seniors from Karoro school went to
the Regent Theater to watch the first ever Toki Pounamu Film Festival in
Greymouth. The festival was made of videos that students from all around
Greymouth had made. The videos had to relate to the theme, ‘Our Place’,
that was only for the schools in the Toki Pounamu cluster. 

There were so many different videos that schools had thought of as ‘Our
Place’. Some included the ocean, mining, history, their school of town. The
schools that had entered were Karoro, Grey main, Paroa, Blaketown, Saint
Patricks, Kaniere, Kumara and Paparoa Range. 

All the videos the schools entered were great.  The one that was my
personal favourite was Paragrey, by a group of students from Saint Patricks;
their names are Diana, Antonia and Eva. Their video was a song about
Greymouth. Their song was originally Bad Guy by Billie Elish but they
changed the lyrics. That was my favourite part of it. One thing that I noticed
that they could change for next time is some of the pictures that they used
weren’t from Greymouth. 

Overall I enjoyed the film festival and the videos chosen. I also noticed that
the videos were suitable for all ages of viewers at the film festival and
especially because they could only have the festival go for 1 hour.