The Raglan Arts Film Festival Awards (RAFFA) celebrate the achievements of local Raglan Whaingaroa film-makers and actors. Films are awarded in various categories, as well as the overall RAFFA Grand Phoenix Palm Award.
The 2017 RAFFA (Raglan Arts Film Festival Award) awards ceremony will be held in September at the Raglan Old School Arts Centre.
2017 RAFFA Entries
| Film Title | Length | Director | Entry Category |
| Paws awhile
| 3.36min | Zara Beeby | Tamariki |
| Small Steps to Paris | 5.17min | Maria Grilli/Cora McInerney | Tamariki |
| Whaingaroa through the eyes of a Child | 4.34min | Frankie Reynolds | Rangatahi |
| Disconnected
| 8.45min | Josh Hood | Rangatahi |
| Be the One | 3.58min | Paris Teddy | Rangatahi |
| Chooked Up | 4.05min | Summer Morgan-Haugh | Rangatahi |
| The Four Notes | 4.25min | Amber Hood | Rangatahi |
| Train track to oblivion | 3.30min | Frank Bellerby | Emerging |
| The World Left Behind | 2.10min | Liam Schwarz | Emerging |
| RGLN | 11.19min | Devon Cotterill | Emerging
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| SURF | 2.15min | David Calder-Flynn | Emerging |
| Film Title | Length | Director | Entry Category |
| Noel Sweetman – Luthier | 14min | Sebastian Lowe | Documentary |
| Bag it Raglan | 3.39min | Pedro Cordova | Documentary |
| Back on the Scent | 4.45min | Billy Lee-Pope | Documentary |
| Yaniv Janson’s Art Gallery 2017 Hamilton | 7.06min | Ally Tiang | Documentary |
| Drainbow Trout #1 of a pollution awareness mural tour | 2.29min | Ross French | Documentary |
| Look – A dance performance by Whaingaroa Youth Movement | 49.08min | Aaron Mooar | Documentary |
| Te Ao Nui O Ngā Hue – The Wide World of the Gourd | 8.08min | Sebastian Lowe | Experimental |
| Riuwaka | 4.40min | Shannon Aroha | Experimental |
| A Visual Poem | 4min | Shannon Aroha | Experimental |