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A MAORI MOVIE HITS HOME DIRECTOR EXPECTS NATIVE PHENOM ‘ONCE WERE WARRIORS,’ ABOUT NEW ZEALAND’S ETHNIC MINORITY, TO STRIKE A NERVE HERE AS WELL ...
The 2012 New Zealand Film Awards' best documentary tracks a year in the life of a 16-year-old Maori boy, although the genius bit may be an exaggeration.
A Maori action movie? Hell yes: It's the crazy, gory, gleeful martial-arts movie you didn't know you needed Full of strutting, buffed-up warriors and showboat action scenes, "The Dead Lands" is ...
"Whale Rider" is a New Zealand film that updates a 1,000-year-old Maori legend about the emergence, once every generation, of a tribal leader. The movie benefits from the expansive seascapes along ...
Toronto Rising Star Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne on Embodying Her Maori Ancestors in ‘The Convert’ The New Zealand actress, whose screen debut was in Taika Waititi's 'The Hunt for the ...
The story: Lay preacher Thomas Munro (Guy Pearce) arrives on a British merchant ship to serve an English settlement in 1830s New Zealand, in the midst of a bloody conflict between two Maori tribes ...
Journey to the place where the warrior spirit was born. Feast your eyes on this awesome trailer. XYZ Films has finally unleashed a trailer for Toa Fraser's The Dead Lands, a badass Maori action ...