Four talented recipients this month received the Inaugural Wairoa Maori Film Scholarships 2005, each receiving $2,222 toward their film, television or multimedia careers. The Scholarships were ...
Each year, New Zealand honors the language of its indigenous people with Maori Language Week, a seven-day celebration filled with seminars, activities and live performances. As Charlotte Graham ...
Three years ago, the New Zealand film Boy had its world premiere, not in a theatre in Auckland or Wellington, but at an East Cape marae, which is a ceremonial meeting place maintained by every Maori ...
The sets and costumes of the handsome olive-skinned actors might have seemed familiar to the Bard, but he would not have recognized one word of their lines as coming from his Merchant of Venice. With ...
It's a big year ahead for the Maori film festival. Based in Wairoa, the Maori film festival now hosts film screenings across NZ, and curates film programmes around the world. Below check out news on ...
These days, New Zealand is everywhere on celluloid. Its rugged southern mountains are the landscape of Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and its volcanic north does a decent impression of ...
Told from the perspectives of nine female filmmakers, “Waru” is the first feature film from New Zealand to be made by Maori women since Mereta Mita’s “Mauri,” almost 30 years ago. It premieres in the ...
No Maori Allowed, directed by Corinna Hunziger was named the winner of the Pasifika Award and recipient of a $5,000 cash prize at the Hawaii International Film Festival. It recounts the story of a ...
In journalism, filmmaking and academia, there has been a long-standing debate about "outsiders" who tell the stories of foreign cultures. How exact can someone be -- whether it's a print journalist ...
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Over an infamous 56-day period during the southern winter of 1981, New Zealand ...
Odds are, you probably didn't see Born To Dance this year. It was released in Australia with a cough and a whimper, running in limited release throughout the country for little more than a week.
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