Published in: Kokiri Issue 30 - Hui-tanguru 2014
The Outlook for Someday wants us to change the way we interact with Papatūānuku, each other and our environment. It’s a big challenge summed up this way:
- Speak Up, Be Heard
- Tell a Story, Wow an Audience
- Connect with Nature, Grow your Culture
- Imagine, Innovate and Create the Future
- Build a World of Peace, Justice and Equity
- Be a Citizen by sustaining our Planet and our People
- MAKE CHANGE WITH FILM
Open for anyone up to the age of 24, the Outlook for Someday competition is to make a short sustainability-related film with any camera and any length up to 5 minutes.
Gisborne's Wainui Beach School won the 2013 Te Puni Kōkiri Whakatipuranga Award for their entry "Tuna: Trash or Taonga?". This film looks at the plight of sick eels living in polluted Gisborne waterways, the importance and value of eels in our rivers, and why the health of our waterways is so important.
“The Outlook for Someday encourages tamariki rangatahi to combine their creative talents with ‘public good’ value,” says Paula Collins the Te Puni Kōkiri representative at the Awards evening.
“When I looked at what our kids are doing I saw our up-and-coming rangatira. These tamariki had something important to say; they had courage and determination; they put down their gadgets and gave up social time to share their point of view.” “For these young people their film-making is a meaningful experience as well as making a contribution to the wider community,” says David Jacobs, Director of The Outlook for Someday. “Today’s young film makers are emerging into an era of public media which is still defining itself. The top-down public service broadcasting model of information, education and entertainment no longer presides. Access, empowerment and participation are taking over.” To see Tuna: Trash or Taonga and other Award-winning entries go to www.theoutlookforsomeday.net/
Image: (L to R) Ian Ruru and Manawa Ruru accept the Te Puni Kōkiri Whakatipuranga Award from director of the Shrek movie franchise Andrew Adamson, and Te Puni Kōkiri Communications Manager Paula Collins.