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The stars behind new Matariki roadrip movie KOKA
arts movies about 1 hour ago A new film about a Maori elder and a troubled young woman who bond during a Matariki road trip is about to hit cinemas. KOKA - meaning 'mother' - is a feature film from Kath Akuhata-Brown. It stars Hinetu Dell as Hamo, a kindly kuia trying to make her way back to her home on the East Cape. She crosses paths with Jo, played by Darneen Christian, as an exuberant delinquent who keeps finding herself in trouble with the law. The visually stunning film is half in English and half Maori - using the original dialect of Ngati Porou. Director Kath Akuhata-Brown and Hinetu Dell join Kathryn ahead of the film's release on June 19.
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A road movie like no other: Kath Akuhata-Brown's Kōkā
In the new feature film Kōkā an elder Māori woman, under the celestial guidance of Matariki, makes a long journey home in a car that's seen better days. She's joined by a charismatic, troubled and troubling young woman. These are two remarkable performances by actors Hinetu Dell and Darneen Christian. For Kōkā 's director, Kath Akuhata-Brown of Ngāti Porou, this has also been a long journey - to make a film on her own terms. Akuhata-Brown's long career in journalism, television and film has blazed a trail for Māori storytelling. As well as writing, producing and directing she's worked in development at the New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho and on the board of Script to Screen. Kōkā , she explains, is a road trip movie but it is of a very Māori, surreal kind - navigating between this world and the next. A kind of Goodbye Pork Bye inverted, reckons Culture 101 's Mark Amery - where the protagonists are wāhine Māori, the journey south to north, and where power is manifested through kindness and compassion to enable change. He is joined on Culture 101 by Kath Akuhata-Brown
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A road movie like no other this Matariki
te ao Maori arts 1:05 pm today In the new feature film Koka an elder Maori woman, under the celestial guidance of Matariki, makes a long journey home in a car that's seen better days. She's joined by a charismatic, troubled and troubling young woman. These are two remarkable performances by actors Hinetu Dell and Darneen Christian. For Koka's director, Kath Akuhata-Brown of Ngati Porou, this has also been a long journey - to make a film on her own terms. Akuhata-Brown's long career in journalism, television and film has blazed a trail for Maori storytelling. As well as writing, producing and directing she's worked in development at the New Zealand Film Commission, Te Mangai Paho and on the board of Script to Screen.
