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The essentials.
Merata Mita will be taken by her whaanau and friends to Pukehina Marae on the 2nd of June. Pukehina Marae is located on State Highway 2 - 370 mtrs east of the Pongakawa Stream, just South of Tauranga. At this stage, the ‘Raa Nehu’ will be on Friday, the 4th of June.

The situation.
Merata Mita passed away of heart failure at exactly 1.55pm 31 May 2010 on the steps of Maori Television, having just completed a rough cut viewing of her new feature documentary entitled ‘Saving Grace’ - a documentary focusing on the importance and love of tamariki - an artistic and personal response to a spate of recent child abuse cases in New Zealand.

The truth.
Merata Mita is a towering giant whose body of work stirs, ignites and guides our emotional and cultural understanding of our country and our people.

She was a fierce advocate, a cultural revolutionary, an intellectual and artistic practitioner and mentor, a beautiful mother, a youthful grandmother and a dear friend.

The future.
Merata Mita challenges us all to continue the pursuit of ‘declolonizing the screen’ in order to better understand ourselves.

E taku kaahui whetuu,

Apoopoo, ka whiti mai te raa, heoi, e kore te mahana e paa mai.

Apoopoo, ka rere te puna o whatu, aa, e kore te puna e mimiti, e memeha.

Apoopoo, ka oho au, ka hoake, ka aatiutiu, ka tiihoihoi, ka ngaro.

Ko te hinapoouri teenei. Ko te hinapoouri teenei.

Aroha nui,

Tearepa Kahi
Chairman
NAW

Statement from Te Wakapumau I Te Reo and The New Zealand Maori Council

A Statement was issued from the hui and it is printed here in full because it is important to us all and such a small group of people are maintaining this hard fought recognition of Maori participation in Broadcasting and Telecommunications.

read statement here

Review of the Film-Documentary, Rain of the Children, Directed by Vincent Ward

Vincent Ward the acclaimed film-documentary creator has picked up an international cinema award in Poland and has received nine Qantas Award nominations for his film-documentary Rain of the Children. Since its screening in theatres around the country Rain of the Children has moved Maori and Pakeha audiences to a sense of awe, to enliven our memories of the men and women who lived during the period Te Puhi Materoa Tatu was born, and during her life time exhibiting times of ground breaking deprivation, hardship and withdrawal…

read entire review here

By Tainui Stephens

For the last several years while I have been a board member, there has been a certain growth in Maori filmmaking. Before my time with the NZFC concludes in December, I want to pass on a few personal thoughts concerning the work of the Commission and its intersection with the Maori world…

Download A New Maori Dimension here

Nga Aho Whakaari congratulates Michael Bennett and the team behind, Matariki.

Tena Koutou nga mema o Nga Aho Whakaari

For those of you who participated in our Te Iringa project this year, many thanks.  The final report is currently being written.  It will comprise of a full web and market sales and distribution strategy.  This report will go to our funder Poutama Trust (kia ora) and then it will inform an application for financial support to implement it.  Again, our thanks for your support.

We are pleased to welcome new boardmembers to the table. 

Claudette Hauiti
Ratu Tibble
Mike Toki
Karen Waaka

and our new Operations Manager

Chargn Keenan

Nau mai haeremai.

This paper is a follow up to a discussion that The Te Mangai Paho Board has undertaken. It is intended that this paper be circulated to key stakeholders in the industry with a view to broadening the discussion.

The underlying premise is generating better ‘value for money’. Te Mangai Paho considers that a re-consideration of ‘the nature of the subsidy’ and the intellectual property rights created as a result of the taxpayer subsidy is well overdue. This paper seeks to clarify the rationale for taxpayer investment in our sector and point to ways in which the sector could produce significantly better value for the taxpayer.

Download discussion paper here