{"id":546,"date":"2014-05-28T04:13:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T04:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=546"},"modified":"2014-07-22T22:18:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:18:17","slug":"filmmaker-featured-in-capital-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2014\/05\/28\/filmmaker-featured-in-capital-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker featured in Capital Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massey student and documentary filmmaker Norman Zafra is profiled in this week&#8217;s &#8216;Capital Life&#8217; column in Wellington&#8217;s <em>Dominion Post<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Zafra&#8217;s documentary, &#8216;A Friend in Sight&#8217; is a Festival Selection in the upcoming\u00a0\u00a0D<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ocumentary Edge Film Festival Wellington screenings in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Billed as Australasia&#8217;s premiere international documentary festival, the\u00a0ten-day screen-fest features cutting-edge new documentary films from New Zealand and the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zafra&#8217;s film captures a special relationship we don&#8217;t normally see on film, the bond between a woman and her seeing-eye dog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-559\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Norman_Radha-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Norman_Radha\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Norman_Radha-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Norman_Radha-750x421.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Norman_Radha-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Norman_Radha.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>He\u00a0is pictured at left\u00a0with Massey University lecturer Dr Radha O&#8217;Meara who supervised his work on the film, which was completed as part of his postgraduate assessment in the School of English &amp; Media Studies postgraduate paper &#8216;Media Practice and Global Culture&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>See the full Capital Life story at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/capital-life\/10091929\/A-sight-for-the-big-screen\">http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/capital-life\/10091929\/A-sight-for-the-big-screen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the festival screening times at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/documentaryedge.org.nz\/2014\/wgtn\/film\/friend-in-sight#screeningTimes\">http:\/\/documentaryedge.org.nz\/2014\/wgtn\/film\/friend-in-sight#screeningTimes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massey student and documentary filmmaker Norman Zafra is profiled in this week&#8217;s &#8216;Capital Life&#8217; column in Wellington&#8217;s Dominion Post newspaper. 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