Share Our Story: By Hand

We’ve officially reached our $4,000 Boosted target for BY HAND.

Thank you. Truly. Every donation, every share, every conversation about this film has helped get us here.

Now, encouraged by the momentum of the campaign, we’re setting one final stretch goal of $1,000 dedicated specifically to film festival submissions and future cinema screenings for BY HAND.

At the heart of this next stage is something I care deeply about: the communal cinema experience.

We want audiences to experience this film together. Sitting in a cinema, sharing emotion, laughter, silence, and reflection. There is something powerful about stories unfolding in a room full of people, and we strongly believe this film deserves to be experienced that way before eventually finding a future online.

At the heart of BY HAND is Greg and Ali Lang’s dedication to preserving traditional craft. Their story is deeply centred in Gladstone and the Wairarapa, but it also carries a wider resonance for anyone who cares about craftsmanship, legacy, creativity, and the passing on of knowledge through generations.

This is a local story with global resonance.

Our hope is that this stretch goal will help us share BY HAND with local audiences, and beyond the Wairarapa through local, national, and international film festivals, before bringing the film home again for more screenings here in the Wairarapa for the community that first embraced it.

More than anything, we would love the opportunity to travel with the film. To sit with audiences. To speak with people after screenings. To share the journey alongside our crew, and hopefully Greg and Ali themselves.

Because stories can begin in small places and still travel far.

And there is something incredibly meaningful about helping stories move beyond their place of origin while still remaining connected to home.

If you would like to help us take BY HAND further into the world, we would be incredibly grateful for your support. And if donating isn’t possible right now, sharing the campaign with others genuinely helps too.