Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival
A featured film: Contemporary Days – The Designs of Lucienne & Robin Day.
Rialto Cinemas Group Manager, Kathryn Bennett says “the Resene Architecture Film Festival brings together an eclectic selection of films that showcase the best in architecture and design around the world.”
Design Onscreen, who are collaborating with Rialto Cinemas, are a non-profit organisation that produces, distributes and preserves high-quality films on architecture and design. Design Onscreen’s Executive Director, Heather Purcell Leja says “after presenting similar fests in Denver, Palm Springs, Moscow and Toronto, we’re excited to bring the best in design films to Auckland as well.”
Some of the films that will be featured include: Antwerp Central Station, which won the grand prize at the Festival of International Films on Art (ARTFIFA), 2011; Journeyman Architect: The Life and Work of Donald Wexler, which won the coveted Audience Award in the Art, Architecture and Design Category at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival; and Bauhaus: Model and Myth, which won the Stewart Award for Best Design Film, ARTFIFA 2011.