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Sunday 27 February
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The Oscars Experience 10.00 – 11.00am

Christine Leunens is the author of Caging Skies, the book
on which the film Jojo Rabbit was based. Of Italian and Belgian
parentage, she has lived in New Zealand since 2006.
She has always been interested in film, and won a screenwriting
award in 1996 for Best Original
Screenplay in France.
However, a summer session
in English Literature at Oxford
University changed her path
and she began writing novels.

Primordial Soup was her first
book. Caging Skies followed.
Written in a war museum in
Normandy, it was nominated
for two prestigious French
awards. Christine attended
the 2013 Whanganui Literary
Festival, sharing the stage with Witi Ihimaera. They discussed
having a novel turned into a film script. This time, she discusses
with Melita Farley the reality of the experience — from film script
to screen, the Oscars experience and worldwide acclaim.
Jojo Rabbit, a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by
Taika Waititi, was adapted from Christine Leunens’s 2008 book
Caging Skies.
Venue: Royal Whanganui Opera House
Bookings: Royal Whanganui Opera House
Admission: $15. Door sales available
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NB: JoJo Rabbit will screen at 4:45pm Sunday 27 February at
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Confluence, 28 Taupo Quay – use Drews Avenue entrance.
www.confluence.kiwi/events
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