Time & Location
03 Sept 2025, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Wellington, 118 Tory Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
About the event
Film Adjacent #27: Be Merry
This session will be hosted by Wellington-based filmmaker and friend of Film Adjacent, Gwen Isaac. Gwen will be workshopping her film-in-progress, Be Merry, with event attendees. She is keen to know:
"What do attendees think of the material and suggestions for how to push the form of the film? Do they sense other films in the DNA of this film? Which ones?"
To help prepare, here is a brief blurb on the project:
"Be Merry is a first-person biographical feature documentary in-progress centred on the mystery of a contentious mother. Taking place in the present day, yet tied to an origin story set in 1980’s Bay of Islands, Aotearoa, the filmmaker/daughter seeks insights from the FA community at this critical rough-cut stage -- what is firing for this audience and what is too awkward and/or not awkward enough as she strives for an reimagined portrai…
