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Tearepa Kahi (born 16 March 1978), also known as Te Arepa Kahi, is a New Zealand film director and former actor of Ngāti Paoa and Waikato Tainui descent. Kahi is best known for the 2013 drama Mt. Zion starring Stan Walker, and the Pātea Māori Club documentary Poi E: The Story of a Song (2016).
Sep 21, 2022 · Jay Ryan, Cliff Curtis, and director Tearepa Kahi discuss their experience making Muru and working with New Zealand Māori activist, Tāme Iti.
- Perri Nemiroff
- 19 min
- Senior Producer
Christchurch-raised Tearepa Kahi began acting and playing saxophone as a teen, then spent two years in a theatre troupe run by Jim Moriarty. Later he studied history and Māori at Auckland University, and acted in landmark te reo film The Māori Merchant of Venice (2002).
Sep 10, 2023 · It’s the fourth feature by director Tearepa Kahi. His earlier films have been much gentler affairs, whether it was the young band drama of Mt Zionor his celebratory music documentaries...
- Russell Baillie
Oct 14, 2022 · Directed by Tearepa Kahi and starring Cliff Curtis, Jay Ryan, Manu Bennett, and legendary artist, activist and leader Tāme Iti as himself, commenting on his own involvement in the raids, Muru is a dynamic, important thriller detailing a necessary story and response.
Sep 13, 2023 · The director of Muru, the highest-grossing New Zealand film of 2022, says it has helped normalise and showcase the unique te reo Māori dialect spoken by the people of Tūhoe.
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Nov 11, 2022 · A huge New Zealand box office hit and an Asia Pacific Screen Award-winner, this powerful film grapples with Aotearoa’s history — and writer/director Tearepa Kahi and activist Tāme Iti talk us through it.
