Film festival Docedge opened this week in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland ahead of Pōneke and Ōtautahi and going online nationwide July 28.
It's the 20th anniversary with a feast of 78 documentaries, including some strong portraits of artrists, writers and cultures.
Among the more unusual is part of the festival's shorter film programme. Its called Home and directed by Emma Duncan and Ashlee Stevens.
In Home we follow artist Teiti Nepia as over the summer of 2023 and 2024 for five months she reclaims her own sense of sovereignty by camping out on public land on Wellington's beautiful but rather wild south coast. Nepia calls her project a form of art activism, a positive response to being squeezed out of rental accommodation due to high rentals. A response to not being able to find a home.
According to the 2023 census, 112,500 people are homeless with women out numbering men, and four out of five homeless women Maori.
