Portable Ghosts
is a 26 part, half-hour children's interactive format drama series integrated
with multi-media based on a book by Margaret Mahy.
Kaitangata Twitch
In pre-European New Zealand, the tiny Island of Kaitangata was the scene of awful happenings. After that, the Island seemed to have a life of its own. It dreamt terrible dreams. The local tribe knew it was best to leave it alone.
And so the Island slept again. But now Kaitangata is twitching. It’s moving. It’s waking up!
The last time it moved was over fifty years ago. It twitched. And a girl disappeared without a trace, apparently swallowed up by the Island.
Now it’s moving again. Dreaming again. Only 12 year old Meredith can stop it. If she can discover what it wants before it’s too late. Before it claims another victim.
Brian Brake - Shot by a Friend
In Brian Brake – Shot by a Friend we follow Brake, exploring him with the people who knew him best, his three families: his biological family, his adopted family and the family he formed in his adult life with Raymond Lau and the friends he surrounded himself with.
From beginnings shrouded in mystery, we take you on a journey through the life of Brian Brake - through enchanting regions of the world and exotic regions of the soul. And on this journey we see how Brian transformed, from the forsaken child he was to the extraordinary man we knew... or thought we knew.
Brian Brake – Shot by a Friend has been funded by Television New Zealand and we are currently in pre-production to shoot 2010. The researcher is keen to find any photographs that Brian may have taken as a child.
New Migration
The second series of the New Migration is currently being broadcast on Maori Television.
The geneses for Maori to return to iwi rohe are many. More and more young, talented Maori are questioning and redefining the definition of success. They are heading home to reclaim their identity - their reo, tikanga, values, their health, whanau connection, their maunga above, their whenua beneath them, their awa and moana at their doorstep.
Few have the mission of saving their communities. If anything, it is home who is saving them.
They are ... THE NEW MIGRATION
The Silence Is Over
The traditional maori instruments Taonga Pùoro were smashed/buried/burned
at the time of the missionaries and have been returned through the efforts
of Hirini Melbourne, Richard Nunns, Adrian Flintoff and newcomer Horomona
Horo.
This documentary for TVNZ's "ArtVille" asks what is their place in Western orchestral music? Will their traditional value be lost when they are played in the future in dance, rock bands + film music? Who will care for them in the future?
A Tall, Long-Faced Tale
for TVNZ. Featuring Margaret
Mahy, Elizabeth
Knox, Anne Magnan-Park and Euan Frizzell. Margaret Mahy is interviewed
by animated characters from some of her most popular books. A 70 minute
documentary for adults that gets to the heart of Margaret’s work and philosophy,
conducted by writer and Mahy-expert Elizabeth Knox.
Justice Durie
a 70-minute documentary about Eddie Durie, New Zealand's first Maori
high court judge, looks at what the Treaty of Waitangi means to New
Zealand.