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Kia ora koutou,

First things first: We have actually properly officially finished The Weed Eaters! After a hectic few weeks of audio mixing, special finalisings, and just the one all-nighter, the film was finally ready to send off to Whānau Mārama, the NZ International Film Festival on Monday. Massive thanks to our Department Of Post team and dialogue editor and mixer Micah Livesay for going above and beyond!! We did not know how long it took to do these important things, and now we know! Phew.

In other news, The Weed Eaters has been accepted into FrightFest - a cool genre film festival in LONDON! Annabel, Callum, Finn, Alice and EP Gemma will all be there. Please if you know someone in London that likes to laugh and be spooked, send them to this link for tickets. Our screening time is 1:20pm on August 25th.

With our NZIFF premiere and subsequent screenings announced, we've been receiving some lovely press:
We did this cool interview with fellow film maker Liam Maguren for Flicks.
We got this cool mention on bFM's Marijuana Media segment (scrub forward to 6 minutes 30 secs). bFM also gave us many lovely shout outs in this video.
The Herald put us in this cool listicle of their top picks for NZIFF.
Aaaand you can tune into RNZ this Saturday to hear Annabel and Callum chat to Tony Stamp on The Mixtape! Lots of The Weed Eaters chats.

If you don't already have tickets for an NZIFF screening, please do so soon. The Christchurch and Wellington screenings are selling fast!! The premiere in Auckland at The Civic is also selling pretty quickly, but currently just the stalls are available. How about we sell out the stalls and get that circle open eh? Eh?? There'll be a red carpet! Some short speeches! A fun photo op! Probably t-shirts! Bring your fam, friends and acquaintances. It's been rate r13, so bring your teenage friends too.

Talk soon <3

Kia ora koutou!

It's all bloody happening all at once. The Weed Eaters has been accepted into the New Zealand International Film Festival and will be premiering in Tāmaki Makaurau this August. Absolutely unreal. If you're keen to come along, make sure you snag yourself an NZIFF multi-pass, as this gives you earlybird access to pre-sales from July 8th. We're busy planning a very special premiere - would love to see you all there :) There'll be screenings in other cities too, more info coming in the not-so-distant future x

While we party plan and pinch ourselves, we're also applying to other festivals and will be sharing news if and when we can about international screenings. Would be incredible to take this project to the rest of the world thanks to all of your support. We literally could not have made this movie without the help of every single one of you.

Get your multi-passes here, and marvel at the glory of The Weed Eaters NZIFF landing page here. Oh, and shout out Kate Rodger for the mention in her latest substack. Talk soon xoxox

"Kicking things off is The Weed Eaters, a horror-comedy with bite. A mysterious strain of weed turns a group of stoner mates into reluctant cannibals, and things unravel fast. Shot on a shoestring and powered by pure creativity, it’s chaotic, clever and destined to gain cult status. NZIFF Artistic Director Paolo Bertolin calls it a “positively crazy finding”, and one of the “must-see thrills” of this year’s festival. "

We thought our beloved Boosted Patrons should be the first to know the title of the film they helped make. A sincere you to all of you for helping make this deam come true for us. All is revealed below:

You can stay up to date with the film's journey over on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theweedeatersmovie/

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