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Kura Leigh Forrester (born 1985) is a New Zealand comedian, actor and writer. In 2019, she won the Billy T Award for best emerging comedian, for her show Kura Woulda Shoulda . She formerly appeared as core cast member Desdemona Schmidt on prime-time soap opera Shortland Street .
Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End is a 2024 New Zealand historical drama film directed by Michael Jonathan, based on a screenplay by Tim Worrall. [2] [4] Presented in the Māori language, it tells the story of the siege of Ōrākau in 1864 during the New Zealand Wars from the perspective of two Māori teenagers.
Category: New Zealand Māori actors. 2 languages. ... This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. + New Zealand Māori actresses (23 P)
The film is about a young girl named Sam seeking to reconnect with her Māori culture with the help of her friends Mallory and Bronco. The movie stars Elizabeth Atkinson, Reuben Francis and Terence Daniel. [4] The film held its world premiere at New Plymouth on 19 March 2024 and was released nationwide on 28 March. [2]
The film received positive reviews. It holds a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 12 critic reviews. Muru is the top-performing film of New Zealand origin at the New Zealand Box Office for the year, as of October 2022. [11] Graeme Tuckett of Stuff awarded the film four stars. He described it as a "provocative, occasionally aggravating and mostly ...
The first play performed in te reo Māori for adult rather than child audiences to tour New Zealand, He Kura E Huna Ana, premiered at the Forge at the Court Theatre in 1995 in a development season. [20] In 2015 Taki Rua produced Briar Grace-Smiths' play Ngā Pou Wahine twenty years after the first presentation at Taki Rua in 1995.
Kura Te Waru Rewiri (born 1950) is a New Zealand artist, academic and educator. Art historian Deidre Brown described her as "one of Aotearoa, New Zealand's most celebrated Māori women artists." [ 1 ] : 98
Tearepa Kahi (born 16 March 1978), also known as Te Arepa Kahi, is a New Zealand film director and former actor of Ngāti Paoa and Waikato Tainui descent. Kahi is best known for the 2013 drama Mt. Zion starring Stan Walker, and the Pātea Māori Club documentary Poi E: The Story of a Song (2016).