2 Sep 2020

Ramai Hayward on the making of Rewi’s Last Stand

From Afternoons, 1:37 pm on 2 September 2020
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Photo: Supplied/Nga Taonga

Kahu Kutia has another taonga to share with us today  - a kōrero from one of Aotearoa’s profilic pioneer filmmakers - Ramai Hayward.

Ramai Hayward was probably the first Māori woman to work as a professional film maker, in collaboration with her husband Rudall Hayward.

Kahu shares excerpts from an interview from the Ngā Puna Waihanga Māori Artists and Writers Hui in 1986. Broadcast from Tūrangawaewae Marae, Ngāruawāhia. Rāmai speaks to Haare Williams on some details of the making of pioneer New Zealand film Rewi’s Last Stand, and the relationship between the film and Tūrangawaewae Marae.