Calvin Tuteao
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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Once Were Warriors
Overview: A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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The Man Who Lost His Head
Overview: Martin Clunes stars as a straight-laced museum curator who finds himself travelling to New Zealand to settle a dispute with a Maori community about an ancient carving - with unexpected consequences.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-25
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The Dead Lands
Overview: Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains led by Wirepa, Hongi’s only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden “Dead Lands” and forge an uneasy alliance with a mysterious warrior, a ruthless fighter who has ruled the area for years.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: mi
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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Hitch Hike
Overview: On a trip to find his birth mother, 18-year-old Aaron is forced to hitch a ride with a rough- looking stranger, Maka. Out of fear, Aaron rejects Maka’s friendship, but when the reunion with his mother doesn’t go quite as planned, he discovers that the stranger may just be the man to help him after all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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Kawa
Overview: A psychological drama of a family in crisis. Kawa, a successful Māori businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, is forced to reveal his lifelong secret - that he is gay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-17
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Home Kills
Overview: It's desperate times for a small rural home kills and butchery service, as big business begins to threaten their livelihood the owners fall into offering a new service - killing people, to make ends meet.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-28
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We Are Still Here
Overview: In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopian future – this landmark collection traces the collective histories of Indigenous peoples across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Diverse in perspective, content and form, traversing the terrain of grief, love and dispossession, they each bear witness to these cultures’ ongoing struggles against patriarchy, colonialism and racism.
Genres: Crime Comedy Animation Science Fiction Romance Drama
Original Language: mi
Release Date: 2023-02-02
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The Pā Boys
Overview: The Pa Boys is an energetic, uplifting road movie capturing the best of New Zealand's culture, beauty, talent and music, whilst exploring themes of identity, friendship and discovering your roots.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-06
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The Difference Between Pipi & Pūpū
Overview: When estranged son, Tai, is called home to Aotearoa to his father Putty's deathbed, he is forced to confront a painful past after years of avoiding it. Once inseparable, Tai and Putty would spend hours together fishing and joking around. However, after a family secret is revealed, their relationship falls apart.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-30
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Smog
Overview: Thick, deadly smog blankets the globe, reducing visibility to less than a few metres. In a secluded farmhouse, a woman and her overbearing husband attempt to find resources and survive using a series of walking trails crafted from ropes and stakes. One night, the woman is alerted to the presence of someone or something else deep in the smog. Desperate to escape the farmhouse, the woman attempts to meet the unknown and risk everything to leave her loveless and abusive relationship behind.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-30
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Elevation
Overview: A Maori gang member and a Neo-Nazi become trapped in an elevator and must put aside their differences to escape their predicament; all the while dealing with an equally racist Chinese maintenance worker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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The Last Saint
Overview: Minka is a teenage Polynesian boy living in the heart of the city. With his P-addicted mother well on the way to going completely off the rails, three people enter his life - each with a promise - each with the power to destroy.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-28
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Crooked Earth
Overview: Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-23
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Waitangi Day: What Really Happened
Overview: This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi's signing on 6 February 1840. Dropping the usual solemnity surrounding Aotearoa's founding document, it uses humour and asides to camera to evoke the chaos and motives behind the treaty. This clip features a confrontation between Hone Heke and representatives of the Crown.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-06
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The Feathers of Peace
Overview: This remarkable film traces the final impact which both races had on the indigenous Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Moriori were a peaceful people who vowed never to take up arms against another human being. They were capable of defeating the invaders, but chose not to. Drawing inspiration from Michael King's seminal book Moriori, The Feathers of Peace brings the truth about what happened on the Chathams to an even wider audience. To do that, the film uses modern television news techniques and dramatized documentary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-04
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Warbrick
Overview: This short follows Joe Warbrick (Calvin Tuteao), captain of the New Zealand Natives rugby team, as he tries to rouse his battle-weary players to head unto the breach once more, for a test against England. It’s midwinter during the trailblazing 1888-89 tour (17 months and a staggering 107 matches) that left a black jersey and silver fern legacy. In a changing room that resembles a casualty ward, Warbrick draws breath and leads a stirring haka. Made by brothers Pere and Meihana Durie, Warbrick inspired the All Blacks the day before a 33-6 demolition of Australia in 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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In Dark Places
Overview: In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to win him his freedom.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-22
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Patu Ihu
Overview: After the death of his uncle, a young man remembers back to a game his uncle taught him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Cousins
Overview: Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-03
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