Noho Mai flies to Cork

Our collaborative te reo Māori poetry film NOHO MAI — created as part of an online writing and film workshop run by New Zealanders, Charles Olsen and Peta-Maria Tunui, and the Colombian writer Lilián Pallares, during the Covid-19 confinement in Spain and Aotearoa, New Zealand — is one of 38 films chosen from 288 submissions received from 181 filmmakers in 49 countries for Ó Bhéal's 8th International Poetry-Film Competition. The shortlist represents 14 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Canada, England, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Sierra Leone, Spain & the USA.

Judges Dareina Ní Chinnéide and Paul Casey will select one winner to receive the Ó Bhéal award for best poetry-film, designed by glass artist Michael Ray. The winner will be announced directly after the screenings.

Sunday 29th November
2.00pm – 4.30pm GMT
(Screening in two parts: 2pm-3pm and 3.30pm-4.30pm)

The screening is part of the Winter Warmer Festival 2020:

"Ó Bhéal’s 8th Winter Warmer (and 1st online) festival presents 36 poets live from fifteen countries, over four days in November. The festival will feature two poetry workshops, four newly recorded Mini-Concerts from Tionscadal na nAmhrán Ealaíne Gaeilge (the Irish Language Art Song Project) devised by Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and John Hess, the shortlist screening and prize-giving for Ó Bhéal’s International Poetry-Film Competition, a Many Tongues of Cork session and a closed-mic set for new voices – poets who have featured regularly in Ó Bhéal’s online open-mic sessions during 2020."