Calvin Tuteao

"Bir Zamanlar Savaşçıydılar," bir kadının ailesini bir arada tutmak için geleneklerine dönüşünü anlatıyor. Beth, beş çocuğu ve kocasıyla Yeni Zelanda'da bir gecekonduda yaşayan Maori kökenli, fakir bir kadındır. 18 Yıl önce Maori ailesinin evlenmesini istemediği kocası iyice içkiye bulaşmış, Beth'e kötü davranan, O'nu döven bir adamdır. Beş çocuklarından biri bir çeteye katılmış, diğeri ise bir sosyal yardım kurumu tarafından götürülmüştür. Beth tüm sorunlarına rağmen aileyi bir arada tutmaya çabalarken tek yardımcısı hayatla ilgili umutlarına dört elle sarılan kızı Grace'dir. Yazar olmak isteyen Grace'in başına gelenler ailenin kaderini değiştirir ve Beth'in, geleneklerinde yatan gücü keşfetmeye zorlar...

Eski bir dönemde geçen filmde babası ve tüm kabilesi öldürülen genç bir savaşçının intikam hikayesi anlatılıyor. Bu yolculukta genç savaşçı, kimsenin girmediği yasaklı topraklardan geçecek ve gizemli, korkusuz bir savaşçının da desteğini alacaktır. Ancak düşmanları sayıca kendilerinden çok fazladır ve bitmeyen bir savaş başlar.

A psychological drama of a family in crisis. Kawa, a successful Māori businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, is forced to reveal his lifelong secret - that he is gay.

Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.

In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopian future – this landmark collection traces the collective histories of Indigenous peoples across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Diverse in perspective, content and form, traversing the terrain of grief, love and dispossession, they each bear witness to these cultures’ ongoing struggles against patriarchy, colonialism and racism.

This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi's signing on 6 February 1840. Dropping the usual solemnity surrounding Aotearoa's founding document, it uses humour and asides to camera to evoke the chaos and motives behind the treaty. This clip features a confrontation between Hone Heke and representatives of the Crown.

Martin Clunes stars as a straight-laced museum curator who finds himself travelling to New Zealand to settle a dispute with a Maori community about an ancient carving - with unexpected consequences.

When a Maori teacher reluctantly accepts the task of teaching two strangers, he is forced to confront and reconcile with his past by unearthing family secrets.

A Maori gang member and a Neo-Nazi become trapped in an elevator and must put aside their differences to escape their predicament; all the while dealing with an equally racist Chinese maintenance worker.

Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.

After the death of his uncle, a young man remembers back to a game his uncle taught him.

In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to win him his freedom.

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.

It's desperate times for a small rural home kills and butchery service, as big business begins to threaten their livelihood the owners fall into offering a new service - killing people, to make ends meet.

An undercover cop who has been undercover for too long has to prepare to make the biggest bust of his career to arrest a drug lord, is suddenly betrayed by a person he least suspects and finds himself on the wrong side of the law. Now framed for a crime he didn't commit, he is determined to uncover his betrayer.

Minka is a teenage Polynesian boy living in the heart of the city. With his P-addicted mother well on the way to going completely off the rails, three people enter his life - each with a promise - each with the power to destroy.

The Pa Boys is an energetic, uplifting road movie capturing the best of New Zealand's culture, beauty, talent and music, whilst exploring themes of identity, friendship and discovering your roots.

This remarkable film traces the final impact which both races had on the indigenous Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Moriori were a peaceful people who vowed never to take up arms against another human being. They were capable of defeating the invaders, but chose not to. Drawing inspiration from Michael King's seminal book Moriori, The Feathers of Peace brings the truth about what happened on the Chathams to an even wider audience. To do that, the film uses modern television news techniques and dramatized documentary.

On a trip to find his birth mother, 18-year-old Aaron is forced to hitch a ride with a rough- looking stranger, Maka. Out of fear, Aaron rejects Maka’s friendship, but when the reunion with his mother doesn’t go quite as planned, he discovers that the stranger may just be the man to help him after all.

Thick, deadly smog blankets the globe, reducing visibility to less than a few metres. In a secluded farmhouse, a woman and her overbearing husband attempt to find resources and survive using a series of walking trails crafted from ropes and stakes. One night, the woman is alerted to the presence of someone or something else deep in the smog. Desperate to escape the farmhouse, the woman attempts to meet the unknown and risk everything to leave her loveless and abusive relationship behind.

A film about a single mum and her kids, its got love and teenage angst with a performance by Ray Woolf as a bumbling undercover cop trying to score.

Xena, köyü basılıp kardeşi katledildikten sonra, intikam hissiyle dolar ve kendisi de köylere saldıran bir savaşçıya dönüşür. Sezar ile tanışmak, hayatının en önemli olaylarından biridir. Sezar, Xena'yı çarmıha gerer ve ölüme terk eder. Ama onu bir kurtaran olacaktır. Xena, bu olaydan sonra kötülüğün pençesine iyice hapsolur. Ve Çin'e kadar giden birçok yerde birçok kötülük yapar. Ares, O'na Savaşçı Prenses unvanını verecektir. Ta ki Herkül ile karşılaşana kadar... Kötülükle yaşayan Xena, yolunu değiştirmeye çalışacak ve insanlara iyilik yapabilmek için mücadele edecektir. Bu yolda en büyük destekçisi ise, yol arkadaşı Gabriel olacaktır.

Genç korucu Richard Cypher'ın hayatı, ormanda gördüğü güzel Kahlan'ı kurtarmasıyla tamamen değişir. Kötülerin kötüsü, şer büyücüsü Darken Rahl'ın suikast timinden kaçan bu gizemli kadın, son büyücü Zedd'i aramaktadır. Zira sadece Zedd, efsanevi Doğruluk Kılıcı'nın korkunç gücünü kullanıp, bozulmamış kalbe ve kararlılığa sahip birini Doğruluk İzcisi olarak atayabilir. "Legend of the Seeker", mütevazı korucu, esrarengiz Kahlan ve büyücüden oluşan üçlümüzün, gelmiş geçmiş en kötücül insan Darken Rahl'ın bu antik ve korkunç gücü ele geçirmesini engellemek için yaptıkları destansı yolculuğu resmediyor.

In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.

Bu yarı mitolojik kostümlü dizide, Zeus’un başka bir kadından oğlu olan ve Hera’nın bu sebeple nefret ettiği Herkül çalışmalarını ve Argonotların yolculuğunu tamamladıktan sonra bir Olimposlu olarak yaşamıyor, ölümsüzlüğü reddediyor ve dünyadaki kötülüklerle savaşmaya devam ediyor. Yunanistan’da ve dışında Iolaus ve bazen de tehlikeli Salmoneus ile dolaşıyor. Yolda karşısında sürekli zorluklar çıkıyor. Bu zorlukların çoğunu Hera yaratmış olsa da, Herkül her zaman zafer kazanıp çaresiz ölümlülere yardım edip yeni maceralara doğru yoluna devam ediyor

The Shannara Chronicles, üç kahramanın dünyayı yok etmek isteyen şeytani bir orduyu durdurmak için yaptıkları yolculuğu anlatıyor. Dizinin kahramanları ise bir Elf prensesi olan Amberle, göçebe bir insan olan Eretria ve yarı insan yarı elf olan Wil.

Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud is a six-part New Zealand television mini-series. The series originally aired from 17 August 2011 to 21 September 2011. It was the first Underbelly series to be created outside of Australia, and depicts events prior to and concurrent with Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities.

Super City was a New Zealand television comedy series starring Madeleine Sami. Season one was directed by Taika Waititi while season two was directed by Oscar Kightley.

Two brothers from the same dysfunctional family, having escaped the desperate days of their early childhood, find their newly ordered lives falling apart when one becomes a suspect in a murder.

Burying Brian is a New Zealand television series produced by Eyeworks Touchdown which premiered on Television New Zealand's TV ONE on 2 July 2008, and ran for 6 episodes. The series is about Jodie and her three female friends. At the beginning of the first episode, Jodie's husband Brian dies during a domestic dispute. Jodie believes that she may go to jail for his murder, but her friends convince her not to report the death, but instead to bury the body and make it appear that he has run off with another woman. Although the series was a ratings success, no further episodes were made after the first season.

"This is Piki" is a Maori drama series produced by well known actor Cliff Curtis, also featuring Temuera Morrison, most often recognized for his role as "Jake Heke" in the powerful drama "Once Were Warriors". Another of a growing list of series and films in which the Maori language is front and center, "This is Piki" has been welcomed as a vehicle in which indigenous peoples, such as Pacific Islanders, present and represent themselves: their cultures, stories, identities and histories. Also playing a central role is Tia Maipi, the main actor in "Born to Dance", along with many other experienced Maori and Polynesian actors such as Calvin Tuteao from "The Last Saint", among other films.