Events & Awards
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Splice
Film Festival
2021
17 - 20 Jun 2021
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
USA
FINALIST - CLAUDE & SUE CORTY
AWARD
A Place at the Kauri Table short film was awarded 2nd prize in the Claude & Sue Corty Award for immigration short documentaries at the annual SPLICE Film Festival 2021 in Brooklyn, New York. The prize was $350 USD and a trophy.
SPLICE is a selective international film and video art festival showcasing all genres of short films and subjects.
They are particularly interested in filmmakers whose work is underrepresented either by gender identification, ethnicity, subject/topic.
The CLAUDE & SUE CORTY AWARD was created by Dr. Eric Corty to honor his parents Claude and Sue Corty who both endured horrific conditions that made it necessary to emigrate to the United States. The embodiment of this award is that immigration is good.
(The festival is usually held at the Film Noir Cinema in Brooklyn, NY, however this year due to Covid-19 it was held virtually).
Helen's short film A Place at the Kauri Table was officially selected for the 15th annual Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2020 in the 'Cross Currents Shorts' session - stories of cultural cross currents in Aotearoa - held at Wairoa's historical Gaiety Cinema & Theatre.
Founded in 2005, the Wairoa Māori Film Festival is the longest running Māori and indigenous film festival in NZ.
"We have a reputation for rich and sincere narratives presented in a gentle and healing space."
Deb, Birgit, Marie & Helen all attended the Festival, which included a WMFF Gala Dinner & Awards held at Taihoa Marae, Wairoa.
Wairoa
Maori Film Festival
2020
23 - 26 Oct 2020
GAIETY CINEMA & THEATRE
Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, NZ
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Cross Currents Shorts
Wallace
Art Awards
2020
15 Sept - 25 Oct 2020
PAH HOMESTEAD
Auckland NZ
https://www.wallaceartstrust.org.nz
SEMI - FINALIST /
SELECTION - SALON DES REFUSÉS
Deb recreated the first iteration of 'A Place at the Kauri Table' as an entry into the longest surviving and largest annual art awards of their kind in New Zealand, the Wallace Art Awards. The 'Table' was accompanied by Helen's short film.
After being selected as one of 75 semi-finalists 'A Place at the Table' was chosen for the Salon des Refusés, an exhibition of works which almost made the finalists travelling show of the 29th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2020. It was held in the Long Gallery of historic Pah Homestead which houses the Wallace Arts Centre in Hillsborough, Auckland.
Established by Sir James Wallace in 1992, the vision of the Wallace Arts Trust is to support, promote and give exposure to New Zealand contemporary artists. Part of the operating philosophy of the Awards is expansion, connection and development.
YICCA
International
Contest of
Contemporary Art
2020
WINNER
CMC - CENTRO CULTURALE MILANO
Milan, Italy
Using Helen's short documentary film, A Place at the Kauri Table 2019 (ITP Symposium, Napier) was entered by Deb as a video installation into the YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art 2020.
The installation won the competition over 560 international entries and was awarded 3000€ in prize money.
The intention was to stage a physical exhibition of the 18 finalists at the CMC Centrol Culturale Milano, Italy, however this was deemed unsafe due to Covid-19 and the exhibition was held online.
The contest's aim is to promote emerging artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art.
What The Jury Said*:
*Marta Jovanovic, Daina Maja Titonel, Milica Cirovic
"Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party, an iconic feminist work hosted by the Brooklyn Museum is probably one of the first artworks that comes to mind when we think of female agency in contemporary art. The woman is finally out of her domestic environment and it is a banquet! A ceremonial arrangement for 39 places at the grand triangular table, each place honoring an important woman from history.
With her video installation A Place at the Kauri Table, Debbie Donnelly (New Zealand) shakes to the core the question of the female agency today, fifty years after Chicago’s Dinner Party. We hold our breaths to see what is at the table for women in the arena of the international social and political debate. We, the jury of three women in the art world with complicated national identities, were delighted to encounter Donnelly’s immigrant women and hear their stories at the table for 6 that speaks to millions."
CTANZ
Symposium 2019
'A Common Thread'
24 - 27 Sept 2019
The Suter Art Gallery
Nelson NZ
Deb and Helen presented 'A Place at the Kauri Table' at the Costume & Textile Assoc of NZ (CTANZ)
Symposium at The Suter Art Gallery in Nelson, New Zealand on Sept 24 2019.
The presentation included a screening of Helen's short documentary film of the ITP Symposium Napier
iteration of the 'Table" to an audience of around 60 attendees. Watch video...
Deb also held 'Moving Continents: Japan Blue/Aizome' at The Suter Art Gallery, an exhibition featuring her own indigo works alongside those of Hiroshi Tomihisa, 4th generation indigo dyer and Kurume kasuri weaver from Japan.
What the Audience Said:
Symposium
Attendee:
Good to tell their stories and hear their voices heard.
Symposium
Attendee:
Very moving.
I was crying.
Symposium
Attendee:
Lovely film, thank you.