Premiering Sunday 6th of December at 11.30am on TVOne.
Minority Voices is a new weekly series providing a fascinating insight into what it’s like to resettle your family within an entirely different culture. In our most recent census, 38,000 New Zealanders culturally identified themselves as Middle Eastern, Latin American or African. It is these groups, along with other emerging communities, who are the focus of Minority Voices.
Whatever their range of experiences, an authentic voice that represents these diverse and emerging communities is well overdue. Minority Voices is that voice for new New Zealanders.
Premiering on Friday October 9 at 9:00 PM.
Brimming with exciting young talent, fresh locations and the top NRL clubs. No one and we mean NO ONE, gets as up close and personal with the young Māori and Pacific footy hero’s of tomorrow than Ngāti NRL.
Never has the presence of Māori and Pacific Island players in Australia been so strong, and never has Ngāti NRL had better access with which to tell the professional and profoundly personal stories behind these talented players.
Ngāti NRL Series 9. Your all access pass inside the NRL and the dreams of the Maori and Pacific Island rugby league superstars of tomorrow.
Māori Television 8.30pm Wednesday 9th September 2009
Riki Ellison: The Defender tells the extraordinary story of the boy from small town New Zealand who became both a US gridiron legend and a key figure in US missile defence.
From the faraway isles of New Zealand to the major gridiron stadiums and the halls of Congress, and into the lives of thousands of disadvantaged children that Riki helped rise above adversity, this intimate documentary brings out from the shadows a truly inspirational Māori who has made his presence felt — in no small way — on the world stage.
Screening on Māori Television 8.30pm Wednesday 9th September 2009
South Auckland’s finest voice, Wayne Anderson, recently wrapped up his second series on PRIME.
Glory Days rejoins Wayne and this three and a half octave voice eighteen months on as he attempts to pull off one of the most audacious comebacks in pop history. Brimming with a plethora of songs that many of us were conceived to and a spectacular supporting cast, Wayne Anderson: Glory Days is champagne television and a timely reminder that dreams only die when we allow them to. Gritty, manly and lavishly laced with humour, this is observational documentary at its finest — an intimate portrait of a man and his dream.
Wayne Anderson: Glory Days aired on PRIME.
Since bursting onto the nation’s TV sets four years ago, ButoBase has established itself as a leading producer of vibrant and engaging bicultural programming in Aotearoa.
ButoBase has now finalised an exciting deal with Australia’s first National Indigenous Television Network, NITV, which will see many of ButoBase’s Māori television series air on the channel. Reaffirming the company’s vision and commitment to creating relationships with indigenous networks both in Aotearoa and around the world, Australian viewers will now be able to watch some of Māori Television’s hottest programmes.
NITV have selected and invested in a broad selection of series for their station, including Ngāti NRL, the hit show that follows our young Māori and Pacific talent trying to make the grade in Australia’s top rugby league competition, the NRL.
Ngāti Porou Hauora is an observational documentary series that follows health providers on the East Coast, revealing the relationships between practitioner and patient. Ihi Toi is a documentary examining the lives and inspirations of two established Māori artists, Tracey Tawhiao and George Nuku, taking a behind-the-scenes look into their lives as both artists and business people.
Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 10:50 am Press Release: Butobase
Principal shooting is now complete and editing is underway on the ambitious international documentary project Relocated Mountains.
The film tells the story of Kurdish refugee Sirwan Namo as he travels back through the Middle East to his former home in Northern Iraq - the country he and his family were forced to flee from due to Kurdish persecution at the hands of Saddam Hussein.
Produced by Auckland based production house ButoBase, Relocated Mountains has been funded by ITVS in America, NHK in Japan and NZ on Air in New Zealand. Producer Julia Parnell, Director Matthew Metcalfe and DOP Andrew Morton have returned from the Middle East after an intensive shoot that was an emotionally draining, but ultimately rewarding experience.
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