Maadi, 1940-1946

 

Peaking at a population of 76, 000 in Maadi, south of Cairo, on the River Nile, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War Two were a culture displaced. For the Egyptian people, the New Zealand soldiers were both a saviour and a burden. Maadi, 1940-1947 is film recollecting the stories from those that remember. The feature-length documentary will bring together unprecedented interviews with the Egyptian people together with accounts of New Zealand veterans who lived and fought out of New Zealand’s largest town away from home that has ever existed for New Zealand citizens.

 

 

In collaboration with the New Zealand Embassy in Cairo.

Quest Media Productions is a press-accredited organisation with a focus on documentary and filmmaking - capable of global location-shooting and collaboration. We have particular ties to the Middle East and Africa, along with Australasia.

 

The Wayfarer, A Film about the Baha’i Faith

 

The Baha’i Faith is considered as a minority religion by most of the world’s populous; an opinion generally held by members of other religious communities, atheists, and agnostics alike. However in parts of the world the Baha’i faith is considered a non-religion, particularly by Islamic nations and their governments; Baha’i believers are considered as heretics, and they are not provided with basic civil and human rights. ‘The Wayfarer”, ‘A Film about one mans journey across the globe to understand the Baha’i Faith’, is a film that objectively positions the history of the Baha’i faith in a modern context by questioning the meaning behind the Baha’i faith and its social involvement locally and internationally.