Internationally acclaimed director Lee Tamahori’s first New Zealand film in 20 years, MAHANA, will open in cinemas nationwide on March 3, 2016. Tamahori explains “I wanted to do a film about the East ...

Once Were Warriors ... now we are feuding sheep shearers. Temuera Morrison plays a very different kind of hard man in this 60s family saga, the first film director Lee Tamahori has made in New Zealand ...

More than two decades after 'Once Were Warriors,' Lee Tamahori returns to New Zealand with a metaphor of Maori oppression. Fourteen-year-old Simeon Mahana (Akuhata Keefe) is just a shaggy-haired kid ...

Lee Tamahori’s out of competition screener “Mahana” (“The Patriarch”) won loud kudos from critics and reporters following its screening at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday. Media reps attending ...

Ged Cann met with Once Were Warriors' star Temuera Morrison and new kid on the block Akuhata Keefe to discuss the upcoming release of their new film Mahana. Morrison plays Tamihana Mahana, grandfather ...

1960s, East Coast of New Zealand. Two M?ori sheep-shearing families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, are longstanding enemies and commercial rivals. 14-year-old Simeon Mahana (Akuhata Keefe), the youngest ...