A Black Iris Production

15/02/2024

Lovely to see the hīkoi our film Whirlflow is on. Made for the Going West Books and Writers Festival, journeyed to Wellington for the inaugural Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival, to the fabulous ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery as part of the Wairoa Maori Film Festival Inc., and now to Māoriland! So proud. Tiny budget, creative people, shot in 1 day. Boom. We can make beautiful things. Amber Esau, James Littlewood, José Alberto De Hoyos, Jack Woon. Mauri Ora.

01/01/2024

Kathleen Mantell's new documentary features people returning to their Hawke's Bay whenua.

04/12/2023

TONIGHT! 8PM Whakaata Māori and then on demand on Māori+.

21/11/2023

Growing up Shyla never felt like she was enough. Finding out where she comes from may help her discover who she really is. But it may also reveal far more than she expected.

Te Hokinga Mai – the return airs on Whakaata Māori, Monday at 8:00pm and on Māori +. Funded by NZ On Air and Te Māngai Pāho. 🤎

10/11/2023

Ka Rawe! What a beautiful write up about our series and our whānau ātaahua in it. Mauri Ora!

Te Hokinga Mai aims to inspire Māori to reconnect with their whenua and whakapapa.

01/11/2023

Te Hokinga Mai – the return
Watch on Whakaata Māori Monday at 8:00pm
- or on demand on Māori+.

Ka mahue te whenua.
He tokoiti i noho tonu.
Te hūnukutanga wawe katoa i te ao, ki ngā tāone.
Tōna tikanga ko tā te tāone he tuku.
Engari kē ko te tāone i apo.
I te mana, i te tuakiritanga, i te tūrangawaewae.
Ka mahue te whenua.
Ka tatari atu ngā tīpuna.
Anei e hoki nei.

TE HOKINGA MAI is a 8-part documentary series. Māori left rural life behind in the fastest urban shift anywhere in the world. And now the time to return has come.

24/10/2023

TE HOKINGA MAI – the return.
Māori left rural life behind in the fastest urban shift anywhere in the world. And now the time to return has come.

Te Hokinga Mai – the return premieres on Whakaata Māori, Monday October 30 at 8.30 pm and on Māori +. Funded by NZ On Air and Te Māngai Pāho. 🤎

15/10/2023

TE HOKINGA MAI is an 8-part documentary series that follows the intimate journey of people from all around the country as they connect with their Māori whakapapa and whenua. Coming 30 Oct on Whakaata Māori. Funded by NZ On Air and Te Māngai Pāho. 🤎

10/02/2023

Chatham Islanders has been selected to screen at the FIFO documentary festival which is happening as we speak in the tropical paradise of Tahiti! Ngā mihi nui FIFO Tahiti, Whakaata Māori, NZ On Air. Me Rongo.

24/11/2022

Our small but super talented team just took out the best factual series at the NZTV awards. I couldn’t be prouder. Thank you NZONAIR and Whakaata Māori for your support. Ngā mihi nui to the people of Rēkohu past and present. Me Rongo. X

21/10/2022

So beautiful to be here at ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival to show The Barber and Chatham Islanders to Toronto! The audience loved it.

04/10/2022

Good luck on your new journey Peleti Oli. You are a good man and an inspiration. And here you are representing in Toronto at the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Fa'afetai for your friendship and inspiration e hoa.