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Malcolm Turner (after more than two decades service) and Asian & LGBTQ Programmer Vicci Ho (after four years service). The 2024 festival will start in July, but will only screen in
Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin (and in fewer venues, and over few days), cutting out Hamilton, Tauranga, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Masterton, Hawke's Bay, Whangarei, Gisborne, Nelson, Gore and Timaru. Festival chairperson Catherine Fitzgerald said Covid-19 impacts over 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 have impacted the festival.
154:, the Auckland International Film Festival (AIFF) in time became a fund-raising event subsidising live arts. Rescued from this role by the intervention of the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies in 1984, the AIFF achieved an audience in excess of 100,000 for the first time in 2005. In 2019, it achieved a record audience of over 112,000. The year 2000 marked the AIFF's return to the refurbished
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