Pure NZ night: $20
Buy ticketsTuesday, 6 October 2026 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
This year, the New Zealand Mountain Film and Book Festival is back again! Together, VUWTC and our mates at WTMC have joined up to run a screening of both the Pure NZ Night and Award Night screenings of the films featured in this year's programme.
We will be selling tickets to the Pure NZ Night, which will be hosted on Tuesday the 6th of October, and the Award Night, hosted on Thursday the 8th of October! All proceeds raised from ticket sales will be donated to charity!
Tickets are $20 for all, per night. Choose which night you'd like to come along to, or even come along to both!
Bring your family, friends, neighbours and anyone along. Snacks encouraged!
This calendar listing is for tickets to the Pure NZ Night on Tuesday the 6th of October!
See this listing for tickets and info on the Awards Night hosted on Thursday the 8th of October: Awards night tickets
PURE NZ NIGHT: - total time 126 minutes - Tuesday the 6th of October
Jerry on the Jerry (10 mins) Huw Miles, NZ. World Premiere. A team of packrafters make a second attempt at a first descent of the Jerry River deep in Fiordland.
Race Be Run (15 mins) Richard Carey & Prabhjit Sabharwal, Canada/NZ. Dressed as
Superman, a man runs solo along Canada's highways to raise funds for cancer charities, transforming the grief of losing both parents into a quiet, inspiring mission of hope.
Project RedLine (30 mins) Matheson Brown, NZ. A blue-collar nobody from New Zealand goes up against a mountaineering elite in an attempt to strip him of what is widely believed to be an illegitimate world record. FESTIVAL SPIRIT AWARD
Alone on Makalu (22 mins) Nick Kowalski, NZ. Matthew Scholes attempts to summit the world’s fifth-highest mountain without supplementary oxygen.
The Pole of Inaccessibility (25 mins) Danny Warley & Ned Brannigan, NZ. A paraglider embarks on a multi-day bivouac flight across New Zealand's Southern Alps, navigating glaciers and vast wilderness to reach the country's most remote point, the Pole of Inaccessibility. He then faces the challenge of getting back out. SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE AWARD
100 Days in Fiordland (24 mins) Dan Sutherland, NZ. Three kayakers spend 100 winter days deep in Fiordland National Park, sea kayaking, hunting, fishing and searching for unexplored whitewater in one of New Zealand's most demanding wilderness expeditions.
BEST NZ MADE FILM
Tickets:
$20 per person, per night - Please note these tickets are for Pure NZ Night only; see the Awards night tickets linked here: Awards night tickets
Brought to you by the Vic Uni Tramping Club, Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club, and of course the New Zealand Mountain Film and Book Festival!