Tāngata Turi resilience to access their own culture
An interview-based documentary series that explores and illuminates the world of Turi-Deaf Maori in the current day. Over the course of five episodes, the fifteen interviewees from across Ngati Turi discuss their experiences, struggles and triumphs.
Wahanga - Education
Tangata Turi discuss their experiences within Aotearoa's education system, and the establishment and development of Ruaumoko Marae, founded as the Turi community's own marae.
Nga Kaiwhakawhiti Reo - Intepreters
Waitangi Day is the backdrop to a discussion about the urgent need for trilingual interpreters: those who can translate between NZSL, Te Reo Maori and English.
Wahine
Wahine Turi Maori discuss their lives in connection to Ngati Turi and Te Ao Maori more broadly, their roles both assigned and chosen, and their hopes and goals for the future.
Nga Araitanga - Barriers
Societal barriers affect tangata Turi every day. This episode asks how these barriers have arisen, what might be done to overcome them, and how technology could be of assistance.
Nga Haerenga - Journeys
A look at the younger generations of tangata Turi, the choices they are making within and for their community, with particular focus on intersectionality and the experience of rainbow youth.
Jared Flitcroft
Cha'nel Kaa-Luke
Milton Reedy
Stephanie Awheto
Whiti Ronaki
Cruze Kapa
Richard Peri
Rahera Turner
Standing on Sacred Ground
2014
Wildest New Zealand
2017
Descent from Disaster
2013
See Hear
1981
Blue Water Empire
2019
Drift Lamborghini: Building Mad Mike's Dream Car
Kiwiland
Circuit
The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook
2018
High-Speed Parahero Gand-D
2021
Switched at Birth
2011
Last Chance to See
2009
Blind Young Things
The Tribe
1999
The Employables
Zoom New Zealand
2015
Unbreakable
2020
Basketball or Nothing
Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand
2004
Dadolescence
2025