A+W.NZ Special Event at the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival 2026 - Wānaka

About the film:
Constance Adams, a world-renowned space architect, spends her final months racing to preserve her legacy. In her last interview, she reflects on a career designing how humans could survive—and thrive—in the most hostile environments, from Mars habitats to deep-space living quarters. Her breakthrough: realizing that the tools she built for other worlds could help protect life on a rapidly changing Earth.
This film captures the brilliance and complexity of a woman who reshaped aerospace while navigating motherhood and the cost of genius. It’s an intimate portrait of someone who spent her life reaching for the stars, only to use her final days to ground her work more deeply on Earth.
 

Preceded by RIMURAPA BY NEIL PARDINGTON (12 mins), a short film about local artist, Neil Pardington who is creating graphic works from bull kelp. Preceded by PAPARAHI: 50TH ANNIVERSARY VICTORIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & INNOVATIVE DESIGN (15 mins), a short film profiling key female architects; alumni of Victoria University of Wellington.

Wānaka, Cinema Paradiso - Thursday 18 June, 6:00pm screening time – arrive 45 mins earlier for networking 

All genders are welcome 💛