Directing
Documentary Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema reveals the remarkable impact Māori have made on New Zealand cinema.
A small boy comes home to find his grandmother has gone and he has to fend for himself.
Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.
Hone is the last of the old time gravediggers. He links the living with the dead. He is the keeper of their secrets. Tana is Hone’s apprentice who respects his uncle and doesn’t mind the physical work. However he finds the spiritual side of the job unnerving. Hone worries that Tana may not be able to pick up the role of the gravedigger and all that it entails. A series of incidents in the urupa (graveyard) lead them to both make final decisions.
Upcoming Māori monster thriller.
Under the celestial guidance of Matariki, Māori elder Hamo and local delinquent Jo form an unlikely bond on a road trip. As they confront past traumas and each face their demons, their shared path becomes a journey of healing, community, and reconciliation.
Set in a serene autumn fishing camp in Aotearoa, this enthralling period piece transports audiences to a time when raptors roamed as immense beings.
Set in 1870's Taranaki, Aotearoa. The Land Wars in Aotearoa are over. A Taranaki hapū is planning a feast with Pākehā former soldiers to mark the start of more peaceful times. Not all is what it seems.
Mataara has a soft side when we meet his Kui. Every week he visits his Kui and discovers that she wants to go to a male strip show. This poses a dilemma for Mataara, as he weighs what lengths he will go to make his grandmother happy.
The Politics of Toheroa Soup is Tiana Trego Hall’s personal story of her whānau and their traditional kai, the protected giant surf clam, toheroa. Once a plentiful food source for iwi across New Zealand toheroa were gathered to near collapse after word of their deliciousness spread around the world.
A boy witnesses the seemingly magic powers of his Aunties and the continuation of tradition.
