Forty-four films from around the globe will be screened in Rotorua over four days in what has been described by organisers as the Magma Short Festival’s biggest event yet Rotorua District Council community arts officer and festival co-founder and organiser Kiri Jarden says this year’s event promises not only a high number of high quality [...]

Many years ago now James K Baxter wrote a poem entitled ‘The Maori Jesus’. It was controversial at the time, picturing the Messiah as being tangata whenua: His breath smelled of mussels and paraoa. When he smiled it looked like the dawn. When he broke wind the little fishes trembled. When he frowned the ground [...]

A celebration of iconic Kiwi entertainer Billy T James is being created for the big screen in the new feature film, Billy T: Te Movie, directed by Ian Mune. The film will be released in cinemas nationwide on August 18th to commemorate 20 years since Billy’s death. Billy T: Te Movie celebrates the life of [...]

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 24, (RTRS): Lee Tamahori has shot two independent films in his nearly two-decade career as a director, and both have brought him to Sundance: He made his first trip in 1995 with his feature directorial debut, “Once Were Warriors,” a violent tale of domestic abuse in a Maori family in his [...]