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Once Were Warriors is a 1994 New Zealand tragic drama film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel. [4] The film tells the story of the Heke family, an urban Māori whānau living in South Auckland, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence, mostly brought on by the patriarch, Jake.
Once Were Warriors, and Duff's fiction in general is strongly influenced by his childhood experiences.In his 1999 autobiography, Out of the Mist and Steam, he describes his Māori mother (and most of her relatives) as alcoholic, irresponsible and physically and emotionally abusive.
Jake "the Muss" Heke fights to save his son, Sonny, from a gang lifestyle after his eldest son, Nig, is killed in a gangland shootout. Jake goes through a period of hopelessness as he tries to restore his family to a functioning state after his anger, drinking, and violence (depicted in the first film) tore them apart.
Jake's Long Shadow (2002) is the third volume in Duff's Once Were Warriors trilogy. In 2003 Once Were Warriors was brought to the stage across New Zealand as a musical drama. Duff regularly writes for the New Zealand Herald. [6]
Riwia Brown ONZM (née Taylor; born 1957) is a New Zealand playwright.She is the screenwriter of the popular and award-winning New Zealand movie Once Were Warriors (1994). [1] [2] The Once Were Warriors screenplay, adapted from the book of the same name by Alan Duff, gained Brown the Best Screenplay award at the 1994 New Zealand Film and TV Awards. [3]
Jake's Long Shadow is a novel by Alan Duff, first published in 2002. [1] [2] It is the third book in the Once Were Warriors trilogy, following Jake "The Muss" Heke and his estranged family.
It is the sequel to Duff's novel Once Were Warriors (1990), [1] [2] which was made into a film in 1994. Jake begins the book alone after the first book except for a younger street kid who helped him at his lowest point at the end of the previous book. Estranged from his family, Jake slowly, accidentally becomes more responsible and mature.
Maria Makarena Owen (born 22 July 1962), known professionally as Rena Owen, is a New Zealand actress in theatre, television and film.Owen is best known for her leading role as Beth Heke in Lee Tamahori's Once Were Warriors and as Taun We in George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.