Producer of TV/film and two rad kiwi daughters // Ride bikes // Love dogs // Producer of #Stylebender#Film // Founder and Creative Director of @FluroBlackNZ
‘Whina’ reaffirmed for me that making a difference to people’s lives at a grassroots level is the goal.
Sometimes we can get caught up at high levels on boards and organisations that we can get far away from actual people and helping change their lives.
Whina made me so emotional at the end I turned to miss14 and hubby we were all crying. Miss14 said to us: that was so inspiring and powerful. Our rangatahi need more movies like this. Movies I’d like to see Apirana, Te Puea, 28th Māori battalion, Māori womens welfare league,
#SilverScreenBlack:
'Whina' (🇳🇿2022)
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📣Long Walk to Freedom:
An essential film on a forgotten history.
Stunningly acted, shot, and scored.
This Dame Cooper biopic leaves you in no doubt why she’s the Mother of the Nation, and what it took to earn it.
@DirectedbyWomen
Breaking my sm hiatus to encourage you to see #Whina. Proud to have helped bring this epic story to the big screen. Go see it. PS I won’t read your replies. Just go see the film 🙏😘 https://t.co/2IfltokN6a
"I like to believe she came up to me afterwards and said 'You are a very good young actress" @RenaOwen on Dame Whina Cooper seeing her perform as a teenage actor in the Pangaru town hall in 1976. Owen plays Whina in a new feature film on her life. https://t.co/MbeMKjwJM8
A soaring and heartful telling of Dame Whina Cooper’s life, WHINA is a triumph, writes Rachel Ashby (@rachie_ash):
"While the film is a powerful portrait of the woman at its heart, it is also a breathtaking picture of nearly a century of social history"
https://t.co/OETDoOj3o7
“Love is the final word of the film — a transcendent love of place and time, as much as of the heart and of each other.” — Tainui Stephens
https://t.co/ocAQg2oOlz