Toiroa – First People: The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana Series
This item is only available for Canadian orders.Catalogue Number: AS0661
Producer: Animiki See Distribution Inc.
Producers: George, Sharlene
Directors: Hager, Barbara
Producing Agencies: Sweetshop & Green Productions
Subject: Canadian World Studies, Documentary, First Nations Studies, History, Indigenous Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Social Sciences, Social Studies, World History
Language: Maori
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: New Zealand
Copyright Year: 2022
Running Time: 25:00
Toiroa – First People” Circa 850 AD. This mostly non-narrated story portrays a young girl and her changing relationship with her father when she discovers footprints in their remote homelands in the mystical Tararua mountain ranges of what is now New Zealand. Their Origin story is told in the opening scene with English subtitles.
‘The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana’, a dramatic Maori anthology series, brings us three ancient oral whakapapa stories of the Ngāi Tara people. Born of the stars and rooted in the homelands of ancient Aotearoa, the series features some of New Zealand’s top Māori actors.
Maori in opening scene with English subtitles; mostly non-narrated.
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