Short Film on conflict between church and matakite

Friday, October 11th, 2013

Pumanawa: The Gift has been selected for the short film section of the ImagineNATIVE festival in Toronto, and the New Zealand Film Festival is trying to place it in other international festivals.

Pumanawa it tells the story of a young woman with a traditional Maori spiritual gift who is attracted to a devout Christian whose views could threaten that heritage.

Director Poata Eruera says the writers, Marie Thompson and Wayne Te Tai, come from Mitimiti.

“And it was a lovely little story and of course it’s such a Catholic bastion up there that the story is essentially the conflict between church and matakite, and who better to write it than two people who are involved in both areas,” Continue reading

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