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March to Victory: The 28th Maori Battalion
Media Release | April 13th, 2006
In celebration of the year of the Veteran the Film Archive honours the achievement and sacrifice of the Maori Battalion with the specially created March to Victory screening. The programme will premiere at the 28th Maori Battalion Reunion in Omapere, Hokianga over Easter and return to Wellington for three showings only on the 27, 28 and 29 April.
The 28th Maori Battalion was part of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force during WWII and was formed as a result of pressure on the Labour government by the Maori MPs and groups throughout the country. The Battalion, followed in the footsteps of Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu, the Pioneer (Maori) Battalion of WWI, and Companies were organised on a tribal basis.
The Battalion were initially sent to Britain, where the German threat was at its peak, later they sailed from England, around South Africa, to Egypt, and Greece, going into action in Greece for the first time on April 15th 1941. Remarkably and despite a terrible casualty rate of five in seven, the Battalion remained voluntary throughout the war.
The March to Victory screening features scenes from the welcome home to the Maori Pioneer Battalion (Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu) and the powhiri held in Auckland Domain, filmed in 1918 and rarely seen. Maori Battalion Returns, shot by the National Film Unit at the conclusion of the war and featuring the arrival of the Dominion Monarch at Pipitea wharf, makes a moving centrepiece for the programme.
March to Victory will conclude with a screening of the short film Tama Tu (2004) directed by Oscar Nominee Taika Waititi.
The Film Archive are pleased to offer you a block booking price (10 or more people) of only $6.
March to Victory
The 28th Maori Battalion
27 - 29 April 7pm
Admission $8 Concession $6
Film Archive
Cnr of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets
Wellington
For further information and bookings please contact:
Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua
The New Zealand Film Archive
64 4 384 7647
» filmarchive.org.nz
In celebration of the year of the Veteran the Film Archive honours the achievement and sacrifice of the Maori Battalion with the specially created March to Victory screening. The programme will premiere at the 28th Maori Battalion Reunion in Omapere, Hokianga over Easter and return to Wellington for three showings only on the 27, 28 and 29 April.
The 28th Maori Battalion was part of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force during WWII and was formed as a result of pressure on the Labour government by the Maori MPs and groups throughout the country. The Battalion, followed in the footsteps of Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu, the Pioneer (Maori) Battalion of WWI, and Companies were organised on a tribal basis.
The Battalion were initially sent to Britain, where the German threat was at its peak, later they sailed from England, around South Africa, to Egypt, and Greece, going into action in Greece for the first time on April 15th 1941. Remarkably and despite a terrible casualty rate of five in seven, the Battalion remained voluntary throughout the war.
The March to Victory screening features scenes from the welcome home to the Maori Pioneer Battalion (Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu) and the powhiri held in Auckland Domain, filmed in 1918 and rarely seen. Maori Battalion Returns, shot by the National Film Unit at the conclusion of the war and featuring the arrival of the Dominion Monarch at Pipitea wharf, makes a moving centrepiece for the programme.
March to Victory will conclude with a screening of the short film Tama Tu (2004) directed by Oscar Nominee Taika Waititi.
The Film Archive are pleased to offer you a block booking price (10 or more people) of only $6.
March to Victory
The 28th Maori Battalion
27 - 29 April 7pm
Admission $8 Concession $6
Film Archive
Cnr of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets
Wellington
For further information and bookings please contact:
Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua
The New Zealand Film Archive
64 4 384 7647
» filmarchive.org.nz
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