Set Maori Shorts

A story of a young girl's attempt to find her identity in a new world and her father's efforts to support her.

A young woman known as The Apprentice discovers her own power once she contacts her spirit guide. Based on a short story by Booker prize-winning author Keri Hulme.

On returning to his Marae, Mana finds conflict between traditional values and contemporary reality. He argues that more attention is being paid to honouring and burying the dead rather than caring for the living. A suicide brings matters to a head.

Young Maori Battalion soldiers wait for night to fall in the ruins of a war-torn Italian home. Forced into silence, they keep themselves amused as any boys would, with jokes and laughter. As they try and ignore the reminders of war around them, a sign brings them back to the world of the dying.

Te Ao Kapurangi. Warrior Woman is a period film depicting an episode of the 'musket wars' between indigenous Maori tribes who take advantage of new warfare technology supplied by British colonialists. Upon her father's death, Te Ao takes on the responsibility of saving her tribe from the invading Nga Puhi. Although the battle seems weighted in their favour, Te Ao proves that firearms are no match for her intelligence and courage.

A young warrior becomes dangerously obsessed when his lover, a high-born Chief's daughter, marries her arranged husband

A boy wrestles to resurrect his family's buried dream. Clinging to the memory of his father who never returned from the war, a boy suffers the moods of his shell shocked uncle. But when he uncovers a buried family legacy, the boy takes over his father's mantel in an effort to make his family happy once more.

Two Cars, One Night is a tale of first love. Romeo and his brother Ed, sit in the car waiting for their parents to come out of the pub. This is their world, a place inhabited by adults and alcohol. It is in this environment that we also meet Polly, an eleven-year-old girl who arrives with her parents. She too is made to wait in the car while they go into the pub, maybe even to drink with Romeo and Ed's mum and dad.

An eight minute film which reprimands the view that all dark skinned people look and think the same way... Wog Features uses graphics, pop culture, iconography and stereotyopical images such as golliwogs to attack racism, sexism and the excesses of capitalism.