This weekend the Film Archive kicks off a series of New Zealand documentaries from Festival's past this weekend.

Film Archive Programmer Diane Pivac says, "Too many good New Zealand documentaries don't get screened often enough. A documentary maker can work tirelessly for months, sometimes years on their documentary project and it's often hard to find a viewing audience. If someone misses a brilliant documentary during a Film Festival or on television, the chances are they won't get to see it again. Here at the Film Archive we're very interested in showing these fantastic NZ stories as often as we can."

First up is Coffee, Tea or Me? by Wellingtonian Brita McVeigh that takes a wry look at New Zealand air hostesses over the years. The fashion, attitudes and stories from different decades. As she writes “I discovered something that dramatically changed the scope of the project. A small book in the library called Human Rights Commission vs Air New Zealand Ltd. A story of sex discrimination.” If you don't get along this evening the documentary will screen again on Saturday 13 September.

New Zealand's leading choreographer, dancer, writer and poet Douglas Wright is the focus of the following documentary. Haunting Douglas (M-offensive language & nudity) is an expertly crafted video portrait of  Wright featuring dance works Ore, Forever, Arc-a Trilogy, As It Is – a fragment, How On Earth, Now Is The Hour, Petrouchka, Faun variations, Last Look, Elegy, Hey Paris, Halo, Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men, Gloria and Inland. This documentary will have a repeat screening on Friday 12 September at 7pm

The Friday and Saturday night documentary screenings will be on the big screen at regular intervals until the end of year. Tickets are only $8/6 at the Film Archive mediatheatre.

Keep an eye on the events calendar for upcoming screening dates.