SISTER JOSEPHINE

More success we wanted to share with you all -  Sister Josephine is soon to have its European Premiere at the 2025 St Tropez Festival Des Antipodes Rencontres Internationales du Cinéma des Antipodes 16 - 19 October.

https://www.festivaldesantipodes.com

We are honoured to be part of this curated Australasian selection of short films by Bernard Bories Directeur Festival des Antipodes, St-Tropez 

Photography by Dean MacKenzie

This is a personal childhood story that is confronting, it is a film about human resilience, empowerment, and heart. This story is wrapped in a crystalised moment in time, acknowledging those people you meet in life that enable change for the better. - Stef Harris

We are thrilled to announce Sister Josephine's World Premiere as part of the official selection at the 2025 Show Me Shorts Film Festival !

Show Me Shorts is Aotearoa’s top international short film festival. It is a competitive Academy Awards® and BAFTA-accredited festival that screens in more than 35 cinemas nationwide, with a mission to connect Aotearoa audiences with short films and share Aotearoa short films with the world.

This October there are 126 screenings of 83 short films at 40 cinema venues across Aotearoa, check out the programme and locations to see the film

Christchurch Screenings are at Alice Cinema & Film Specialists

OPENING NIGHT in Christchurch 9th October ( 2 sessions)  

SAMPLER SELECTION 10th and 19th October 

FILM MAKERS TALK with Stef Harris in Christchurch on the 13th October

Opening Night Tickets available here https://www.showmeshorts.co.nz/attend/2025-programme/sessions/christchurchopeningnight2025

Sampler Selection programme here https://www.showmeshorts.co.nz/attend/2025-programme/sessions/the-sampler-2025

Christchurch Filmmaker Talks here https://www.showmeshorts.co.nz/attend/2025-programme/sessions/christchurch-filmmaker-talk-2025

A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OUR AMAZING BOOSTED SUPPORTERS, WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE FILM! 

Amanda and Stef

Thank you to everyone for your amazing donations so far, we are so grateful for the community of support wrapped around us to finish the film. We celebrate our newcomer 11-12yr old actors in the film, Jaxon Barbarich-Campbell, Ezra Mataki-Rolleston, Noah Burns, Max Wright-Halafuka and Taane Jacobs 🎬

Thank you so much for your support with our Boosted crowdfunding

it means so much to have such a wide community whanau supporting us!

We are now at 45% of our target - Watch out for more stories and posts about the project

over the next 10 days! Please follow our Facebook and Instagram pages and share with family and friends - we are feeling so happy right now just like Maaka in this image - Ngā mihi nui

Thank you - such amazing support we could not do it without you. We are rolling out 2 stories a day in our socials be sure to check them out Q and share on your networks 🤩

We are so close! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Every amount is valuable, large and small, enabling us to reach our goal!

Because of all the generous donors we have started editing and it's looking amazing, This little film does pack a punch!

We are excited to work with Ōtautahi Sound designer, Chris Sinclair who will be starting soon with the design along with our poster design and titles with Madeline O'Donoghue.

If you can share our campaign with everyone who may be interested in supporting us and the other creatives who helped make the film - that would be amazing!

Thank you from all our cast and crew.

Now we would LOVE to apply our stretch goal to keep going - this will help us with A-List International Film Festivals and Music and Sound design. Please keep sharing and spreading the word. Thank you so much - Ngā mihi nui

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this campaign we are thrilled with

support and money that has been raised, we know that It is hard times at the moment, so we appreciate every dollar donated towards this project, 5 hours to go, thank you once again.

A huge thank you to our sound designer Chris Sinclair. Last week the boys came in for some ADR and yesterday Stef, Judd and I got to sit down and listen to final sound mix at Chris's studio in Ōtautahi. We are also really pleased to have licenced for the film a special recording sung by talented child soprano Antonio de la Torre when he was 11 years old. We are booked into Park Road Post on the 20th of June to do the finishing of the film - nearly there!