Flower of Life

Ema Barton | Film

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Francis Baker

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Overview

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Flower of Life is a narrative music video collaboration between Sāmoan / Pākehā artist EMA I’U and filmmaker Francis Baker, supported by NZ On Air's New Music Pasifika 2022 programme.

The song is about moving past old systems which have disconnected us from nature and our ancestral power to a place of healing, collaboration and the next age of enlightenment. This story is the start of Ema's journey as an artist to exploring her culture and connecting to the strength of her Moana Gafa.

Since shooting the video with the best gear possible and a wicked team of over 25 people, we have been selected for the first ever SXSW Sydney Film Festival, a big opportunity for us to develop our careers.

However, this creates a gap in our budget.

We're stoked The Arts Foundation and Creative New Zealand have now taken us onboard the BOOSTED x MOANA 2023 vaka to help drive our work to the next level.

In order to make this partnership a success, we need support from our networks.

After 18 months of hard work to get to this point, we're now opening up to our communities to be part of the final push and help this project reach it's full potential on the world stage.

Each dollar we receive, Creative New Zealand will match up to a total of $10k to help us cover the costs of:

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💅 POST PRODUCTION

VFX, colour, mix and DCP to take the video to the theatrical level for festival screenings.

🦘TRAVEL EXPENSES

Accomodation to put us up in Sydney.

🎯 MARKETING

To enter into other film festivals, create a poster and promote the video towards it's online release in line with the launch of Ema's debut album in 2024.

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You can donate through the button above.

Boosted is an all or nothing crowdfunding platform, so if we don't hit our target, we get nothing.

Each donation made from New Zealand is eligible for a 33% tax refund.

Please share our page with anyone you think would be keen to support.

Can't wait for our world premiere in Sydney and to share this with everyone when it's online!

Fa'afetai tele lava

Ema and Francis

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Project Updates

20124 Days Ago

Thank you Thank you Thank you. We made it.

Mālō Aiga,

Thank you so so much for your support during this Boosted X Moana Campaign.

What a month it has been!

With your help we reached our target, unlocking the CNZ match fund and we just hit our stretch goal in the nick of time.

Securing these funds has allowed us to finish off Post Production to a high standard, enter more festivals and ensured we could get into the SXSW Sydney Film Festival where we recently had the world premiere of the video and made some great connections. We will be entering more festivals and working on a promo plan to help take this video further and help with Ema’s music release.

With all this encouragement we’ve decided to share Flower of Life online sooner on the

11th of November.

Here is the link if you’d like to Pre-Save the single and follow along our journey.

We’d also like to invite you to a little preview screening event on Friday 10th November.

This is to say thank you and show our appreciation for your support with this project.

We’ll send email invites soon :)

A special shout out to the Boosted.nz team, The Arts Foundation and Creative NZ for backing the arts and letting us jump on board this mighty Boosted X Moana Vaka.

Ngā mihi to NZ on Air for your support via New Music Pasifika.

Again...Fa’afetai tele lava to everyone involved, we really do appreciate your help and can’t wait to share this video with you all soon.

Alofa atu, kia ora

Ema, Francis & The Flower of Life Team.