POI EThe Story of Our Song

PRODUCTION NOTES

Jawbone Pictures in association with the Pātea Film Collective, Te Māngai Paho, NZ on Air and the New Zealand Film Commission presents POI E: The Story of our Song

Starring Dalvanius Prime, Ngoi Pēwhairangi and the Pātea Māori Club along with Taika Waititi, Stan Walker and the Topp TwinsWritten, directed and executive produced by Tearepa KahiDirector of Photography: Fred Renata and Jos Wheeler Sound Design: Dick Reade and Colleen Brennan Graphics: Jeff Smith Editors: Tearepa Kahi and Francis Glenday Producers: Alexander Behse, Reikura Kahi Line Producer Callie Adams Associate Producers: Tuteri Rangihaeata, Eruera Te Whiti Nia, Natasha Prime, Nephi Prime

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A TEST AUDIENCE was asked for 3 words to describe POI E. They said:

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CONTENTS

FACT SHEET page 4SYNOPSIS page 5-6ABOUT THE FILM page 7-11 ABOUT THE PRODUCTION page 12-14 BIOGRAPHIES page 15 - 26Dalvanius Prime – Timeline page 15-16Ngoi Pēwhairangi page 17The Patea Maori Club page 18-19Barletta Prime page 20Maaka Pōhatu page 20

Tearepa Kahi page 21Alexander Behse page 22Reikura Kahi, page 23Tuteri Dal Rangihaeata page 23Fred Renata page 24Jos Wheeler page 24Francis Glenday page 25Jan Hellriegel page 26Full Credits page 27 -41

Director/writer Tearepa Kahi on the personal impact of the song‘Poi E’:

“I grew up in Papanui in Christchurch, where there wasn’t a huge Maori presence. When I used to visit the whanau in Pukekohe, that’s where I felt strong and confident, but in Christchurch it was a different feeling altogether.

“But when ‘Poi E’ came out - I must have been 7 years old - I saw this young boy dressed in his maro, standing with his whānau doing those actions and he looked so awesome!

“I felt like I saw myself. And then, as the video clip played on, I saw who I wanted to be: Joe Moana on top of the waka doing the bop.

“So, in this one video clip I saw myself as I was and I saw who I wanted to be.”

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FACT SHEET

Duration: 92 minutes

Jawbone Pictures in association with the Patea Film Collective, Te Māngai Paho, NZ On Air and the NZ Film Commission with the support of the Dalvanius Prime Estate and the Patea Maori Club.

NZ Distributor: Sony Pictures NZ

Written, directed and executive produced by: Tearepa KahiProducers: Alexander Behse, Reikura KahiAssociate Producers: Tuteri Rangihaeata, Eruera Te Whiti Nia, Natasha Prime, Nephi PrimeLine producer: Callie AdamsDirector of Photography: Fred Renata and Jos WheelerEditor: Tearepa Kahi and Francis GlendaySound Design: Dick Reade and Colleen BrennanMusic Supervisor: Jan Hellriegel Graphics: Jeff Smith

Maaka Pōhatu plays Dalvanius in reconstructions

ABOUT ‘Poi E’, the song:

In 1984, ‘Poi E’ reached Number 1 on the NZ Pop Charts and broke every musical record. It

remained in the charts for 34 weeks. It outsold ‘Thriller’, ‘I Just Called to Say I Love You’ and

every other hit of 1984. It has been in the Top 10 in New Zealand, every decade for the past 30

years. It was also the first Number 1 song written and released entirely in Te Reo Māori. To put

it simply, this small song changed New Zealand, forever.

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TAGLINE: The Story of Our Song

SHORT SYNOPSIS

‘Poi E’, a simple song with a catchy beat released 32 years ago, has become New Zealand’s

unofficial national anthem. With humour, energy and emotion, the movie POI E is the story of how

that iconic song gave pride to generations of New Zealanders. From Taika Waititi giving Stan Walker

his quirky take on life in the 1980s to Patea Maori Club members’ straight-talking and funny memories

of the song’s visionary originator Dalvanius Prime, director Tearepa Kahi (Mt Zion) captures a unique

story that taps into the heart of the nation.

LONGER SYNOPSIS

POI E is the story of the creation of New Zealand’s iconic song of celebration, the song that became the

unofficial national anthem. A ground-breaking mash-up of 1980s pop music, traditional Māori waiata

and bop dancing, ‘Poi E’ was a unique product of its time.

Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi (Mt Zion), POI E takes the audience on a laugh-and-cry emotional

journey as it lays out the hard-scrabble context from which the song was born and the relationships

which shaped the song and propelled it forward.

Dalvanius Prime, a musician with an international R&B career and a Motown dream, but divorced from

his Māori identity, returned home to nurse his dying mother and discovered a new dream - to bring Te

Reo Māori to the younger generation through pop music with a uniquely Māori flavour. He co-

composed ‘Poi E’ with Māori language composer Ngoi Pēwhairangi and persuaded his family, The

Patea Māori Club, to perform it. Along the way, he gathered a diverse and talented bunch of

collaborators to record the song, make a music video and take all the steps necessary to get it to Number

1 on the charts. This included hustling up investment from family and local Patea businesspeople, who

recall the moment with pride.

The film is told largely in Dalvanius’ own words and features many truly Kiwi characters who were

there at the time in poignant, often hilarious recollections – notably the twins known as Aunty Bib and

Nana Bub and the original bop dancer, Joe Moana, alongside musicians like Stan Walker, who, aged 25,

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has never known a time without ‘Poi E’. He shares the screen with filmmaker Taika Waititi, who gives a

‘Taika-world view’ explanation of life in the 1980s. And they do the bop.

Some quotes from a TEST AUDIENCE:

“Makes me really proud to be a kiwi. I'm inspired.”

“Awesome. I would like to see it with my family.”

“Such an important piece of NZ history that I had no idea about. Thank you for telling it.”

“A heart-warming film, a letter to youth, a message to our nation.”

“Dalvanius' passion for re-igniting Te Reo Maori within a platform such as music was inspirational.”

“Dalvanius was creative, funny, inspirational and clearly had a big impact on a lot of people.”

“He brought the culture into the new age and uplifted a lot of the past into a positive light. Absolutely stunning.”

“Really enjoyed it and love seeing Maori culture on screen.”

“Ended on a high! Great ending.”

“It was wonderful! I will be singing Poi E all the way home.”

“A very enjoyable creative film destined for a wide audience.”

“Fantastic!”

“This is a film for all New Zealanders to enjoy. It should be required viewing for the younger generation”

“Loved it!”

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ABOUT THE FILM

“It’s the story of how far a dream can go when it’s led by determination and

vision.” – Tearepa Kahi.

POI E is the latest chapter in director/writer Tearepa Kahi’s exploration of New Zealand’s musical

history. His first film, Mt Zion, was a fictional story inspired by his musician father and his whānau in

the 1980s.

This film is the true story of the visionary musician and leader Maui Dalvanius Prime, the entrepreneur

responsible for the iconic New Zealand song ‘Poi E’ becoming a huge hit in the 1980s. Upbeat, catchy

and danceable, it remains a favourite more than 30 years later. It could be called the country’s unofficial

national anthem - it’s the song Kiwis use to celebrate success at major events. And every New Zealander

feels they can sing it (the chorus at least).

‘Poi E’, composed by Dalvanius with Māori language expert Ngoi Pēwhairangi and performed by the

Patea Māori Club, remains the only song in Te Reo Māori to reach No 1 in the charts, 32 years since its

1984 release.

‘Poi E’ topped the charts for four weeks and was the biggest-selling single in New Zealand for 1984. It

has been in the Top 10 in New Zealand every decade for the past 30 years. After featuring in the

jubilant finale of Taika Waititi’s blockbuster film Boy, ‘Poi E’ reached No 3 again in 2010.

Kahi says the song ‘Poi E’ is significant because “it was the first pop song that used a drum machine,

spacey noises, sound effects and put Te Reo Māori to that music. It was the first time you saw modern

and traditional come together and when that fusion happened a huge feeling just leaped across the

country. That song represents a really important time marker for when Māori and Pākehā started doing

the bop together.

“It might be a difficult song to sing, but it’s an easy song to feel. And all of that celebration and

euphoria that happened the first time we heard that song still happens every time we hear it now.”

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Through lively archival footage, home movies and hilarious interviews with existing members, the film

traces how the performers of ‘Poi E’, the Patea Maori Club, found themselves on an unexpected roller-

coaster ride as the song rocked the charts. They performed it around in the world, including a Royal

Gala performance for the Queen in 1985. Today, the group includes three generations of performers and

they maintain standards by practising every Monday night in their Patea clubrooms. They are still in

demand.

POI E tells of Dalvanius, a covers band singer and entertainer on the Australian and South-East Asian

nightclub circuit who was out of touch with his Māori heritage, arriving back home in Patea, Taranaki,

to nurse his ailing mother in the early 1980s.

‘Poi E’ is sometimes credited with saving the Taranaki town of Patea by lifting morale after the 1982

closure of the meat processing factory, the town’s main industry and employer of the majority of Māori

in the area. The film places the creation of the song against this backdrop, combined with the dislocation

of Māori youth growing up in the cities, cut off from their tribal origins. Dalvanius’ vision, dream and

inspiration was to use pop music to reach out to those disaffected youth and bring them back to their

language and culture. In a powerful sequence, Kahi intercuts poet Apirana Taylor reading his gritty,

truth-telling poem “Sad Joke on a Marae” with the social upheavals of the 1980s.

It is a story told in Dalvanius’ own voice - sometimes passionate, sometimes funny, sometimes

emotional, always entertaining - largely from an audio interview conducted by author Chris Bourke and

another set of radio interviews by veteran broadcaster Henare Te Ua.

Dalvanius tells of his own inadequacy in Te Reo Māori, particularly his heartbreak at not being able to

understand his mother’s dying words. That can be seen as a motivator for his wanting young Māori to

learn Te Reo through music they could relate to.

The story is told with humour, insight and compassion, and is a powerful emotional journey for the

audience. Original Patea Māori Club members recall their first hearing ‘Poi E’, their first performances

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– on stage and in the recording studio - and what it was like working with Dalvanius, or “Butch”, as they

knew him.

Alongside the revelations of the Patea whānau and locals are interviews with some of the country’s top

musicians – The Topp Twins, Don McGlashan, Annie Crummer, Hinewehi Mohi and Moana Maniapoto

- about the influence of ‘Poi E’ on their lives and careers. Stan Walker, who has never known a time

without ‘Poi E’, shares the screen with filmmaker Taika Waititi in a hilarious cameo in which Taika

attempts to explain life in the 1980s and analogue round-the-dial telephones to Stan. And they do the

bop.

Kahi’s hope for the film is “to share the many trials and tribulations and the mountain Dalvanius

climbed in bringing this song to the airwaves and to the mainstream of New Zealand at that time. We

look back fondly on it now and when it’s time to celebrate we’re happy to sing a chorus and party along

to it, but what Dalvanius and the Patea Māori Club did to put that song on the charts gives us a lot of

lessons in terms of what we want to do today - whatever our dreams might be.

“This is a story about not giving up, about believing in something bigger and about finding a way

through difficulties. Those are some of the things I hope this song can now symbolise for a much wider

audience.”

Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi, writer/director of 2013 box office success Mt Zion, POI E uses

compelling, funny and often moving interviews from people who were there at the time, plus archival

footage and audio material, some revealed for the first time, like the first ever recording of ‘Poi E’, and

all of the film shot (the ‘rushes’) for the original music video. It also contains a 2015 re-creation of the

iconic music video featuring many of the original performers, including the man who brought break

dancing to New Zealand, Joe Moana.

The film is produced by Tearepa Kahi, Reikura Kahi and Alexander Behse through their company

Jawbone Pictures and the Patea Film Collective with the support of the Dalvanius Prime Estate and the

Patea Maori Club, represented by co-producer Tuteri Dal Rangihaeata. It is funded by NZ Film

Commission, Te Māngai Paho and NZ On Air and is distributed by Sony Pictures NZ. Director of

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photography is Fred Renata (Mt Zion) with Jos Wheeler, production designer Savage and costume

designer Gavin McLean are also from the Mt Zion team; music supervisor is Jan Hellriegel and Kahi

was editor with Francis Glenday.

Tuteri Dal Rangihaeata, Dalvanius Prime’s nephew and namesake, was involved from the very

beginning of the project, which originated as an idea for a television programme, but he says Kahi saw

its potential as a feature film. “He told us it was a bigger story than we thought,” says Rangihaeata, “and

he was right.

“Other than ‘Poi E’ going to Number One, I believe this film will be the biggest event that has

happened, not only for the family, but for the community in Patea,” he says.

“It started the whānau thinking about things they’ve never thought about before because they were just

in the action, doing it. So, through a lot of reflection, they’re still learning about it and putting the

experience into context, but I think they are very honoured that they’ve had the chance.

“This film is bringing back memories of all those hard times that they went through. And when Uncle

Dal returned from Aussie with his top hat and fancy vest – it was this guy with a dream to help a

community.”

Kahi says one of the things he learned in making this film is “this song wasn’t manufactured, like a lot

of today’s music is. It actually came from a real place and from real people. This story is about a person

who is going through a huge identity shift, dealing with the passing of his mother and adjusting to

returning home from the bright lights overseas. And it’s these people who are suffering economically

and wondering what’s the next step because the job that their families have done for the last 40 years is

over.

“If these people had been any different, if Dalvanius had gone with another kapa haka group, this song

wouldn’t be the same. If these lyrics didn’t come from Ngoi Pēwhairangi from Tokomaru Bay, this song

wouldn’t be the same.

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“So for me, it’s been getting to understand each of these places and all of the people involved that gives

this song its place. It’s not just a story about a chart-topper, the first Te Reo Māori song that hit number

one. It’s actually a story about what happened when all those people came together to create some

magic.”

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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

POI E was filmed by a small crew in several short bursts in 2014-2015. They travelled several times to

Patea, the small South Taranaki hometown of Dalvanius Prime and the Patea Māori Club, filming

interviews with his whānau, PMC members, former freezing workers and other locals, including the

butcher. They also reconstructed the shooting of the ‘Poi E’ music video, attended by the video’s

original makers, director Paul Carvell and cinematographer Waka Attewell.

Kahi says he wanted to pay tribute in that way because “a lot of the frontline members and Joe Moana

the bop master are still with us, so the opportunity was too good to pass up. I thought since we have the

film they shot 30 years ago, let’s have past and present meet together on screen in a faithful video clip

and make it with a lot of love and integrity.”

He says bringing Joe Moana (the bop dancer on top of the canoe) back to Patea (from Australia) was

one of the highlights of his life. “He had such a profound influence on me as a young boy and being able

to share that side of the story was a huge reward.”

One of the key interviews was with Dalvanius’s sister Barletta, who toured extensively overseas with

Dalvanius as one of The Fascinations, the group they created initially in Wellington. She returned to

Patea with him to care for their mother and was one of the original Patea Māori Club performers of ‘Poi

E’, a role she still has today.

Barletta says, “This film depicts the true story of the song and how it came about. I’m very proud that

this story is being told because it’s a fabulous history for New Zealand as a whole - it promotes the reo

and the culture and also portrays our culture overseas.”

The film crew went to Ngoi Pēwhairangi’s home in Tokomaru Bay to film the recollections of her

descendants. “Ngoi exists in a really important way in this film because she played a really important

part in Dalvanius’ progression as an artist and her presence in this film is heartfelt and we wanted to

hear from her whānau,” says Kahi.

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Producer Reikura Kahi says, “Dalvanius didn’t know how to speak Māori, but he knew the importance

of his language and that’s why he approached Ngoi to collaborate with this Māori song.”

In the film, Dalvanius tells how he was so inspired by hearing the legendary Prince Tui Teka sing his

now-classic ‘E Ipo’ - which was written by Pēwhairangi, - that he knew immediately he wanted to work

with her.

The film includes fragments of a reconstruction of a performance in a 1970s Australian nightclub –

Dalvanius and the Fascinations and the band Collision - in which Maaka Pōhatu brings Dalvanius’ stage

presence from that era to life.

Rangiwaeata said at the time of filming the concert sequence: “When I saw Maaka walk out on the

stage, I thought ‘oh my God, I’m looking at the archives of Uncle Dal, the Fascinations and Collision in

Perth’. The costume people did a wonderful job and Maaka has got Uncle’s stance, his facials and he’s

got his number one move down.”

Kahi explains his reasons for the re-enactment: “Even though Dalvanius is a really well-documented

character, one thing that we didn’t have on film or tape were some of his earlier performances in

Australia, but we do have his live recordings. They are wonderful songs and you can just hear his

energy, his skill and his accuracy come through. So, we wanted to bring his original voice to the screen

in an artistic way.”

As with all historical films, the search for relevant film and video footage was broad, challenging and

ongoing. For Kahi, finding the final piece in the jigsaw enabled him to radically change the way he told

the story. The discovery, late in the piece, of an audio interview by music journalist Chris Bourke,

unlocked the key to the narrative and gave dynamic energy to the film. It was the find that enabled Kahi

to tell the story largely through Dalvanius’ own voice.

Kahi says: “There’s been so many spooky things that have occurred on this journey. As a director you

start off with a wish-list. In the beginning, I thought it would be amazing to find the rushes (original

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film) of the original music video. And there, locked away in a little garage in Patea, were two canisters

of film that probably hadn’t been opened up for 30 years.

“Also on the wish-list were the original stems (individual tracks) to the song. A day before we were due

to shoot the interview with the sound engineers, Richard Campbell, an old collaborator of Dalvanius,

contacted me saying, the stems were in his garage.”

But the biggest - and most unlikely - find, was the cassette tape recording of the first-ever performance

of ‘Poi E’, sung as soon as Dalvanius and Ngoi had finished writing it in her house in Tokomaru Bay.

It was a taonga long thought to be lost, but uncovered in a ‘sock drawer’ in Sydney during a search

provoked by the fact that the film was being made.

In another coincidence, Maaka Pōhatu was able to wear one of Dalvanius’s actual stage costumes in the

on-stage re-enactment. Costume designer Gavin McLean found the jacket at costume hire company First

Scene. “Dalvanius apparently donated it after wearing it on a TVNZ show. It fitted Maaka perfectly, so

he was literally in Dalvanius’ lamē jacket, singing and dancing at the Mercury Theatre. When we told

Maaka and Tearepa it had actually belonged to Dalvanius, they were overwhelmed.”

Kahi says: “Dalvanius’s guiding hand has been with us as we’ve made this story.”

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BIOGRAPHIES

Maui Dalvanius Prime - Timeline

Official Biography up to 1999: http://www.digitalus.co.nz/mokomokai/resbigd.htmlBiography by Murray Cammick: http://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/dalvaniusObituary NZ Herald: http://bit.ly/1ipnyeX

Iwi: Tainui, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Ruanui, Tuwharetoa, Ngā Rauru, Pakakohi, Ngai Tahu.

1948, January 16 – Born. Grew up in Patea, Taranaki1969 The Fascinations with sister Barletta and brother Eddie, won 2ZB talent quest.1970 Sydney with The Shevelles.1971 re-formed The Fascinations, adding brother Timothy. Went solo after group split.1973 Sydney. Dalvanius & the Fascinations with Barletta in Australia. Performed at opening of Sydney Opera House, opening for Petula Clark, then Diahann Carroll.1974 “Love Train” and “Respect Yourself” released by Reprise Records. Toured Pacific Islands & Hawaii. Many TV shows. One year at Wrest Point Casino, Tasmania. 1975 “Canberra, We’re Watching You” “Chessboard of Love” “Voodoo Lady” released1976 all 3 singles won Australian Soul Appreciation Society Awards. 3 years as backing vocals for Sherbet. Tours. Records.1976 toured NZ with Collision before recording album together in Sydney1977 toured with Pointer Sisters, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, Eartha Kitt and others1979 Returned to NZ. Worked as record producer.1982 Produced ‘E Ipo’ by Prince Tui Teka (composed by Ngoi Pēwhairangi). Produced and performed with Barletta on “Maoris on 45” by The Consorts.1982 started songwriting collaboration with Ngoi Pēwhairangi. 1983 Formed Maui Records.1984 ‘Poi E’ by Patea Māori Club released. Then “Aku Raukura” “Ngoi” and Hei Konei Ra” by Patea Māori Club released.1986 Patea Maori Club album ”Raukura” released.1987 Composed soundtrack for Barry Barclay film Ngati. Released “Haeremai” by Cara Pēwhairangi - theme song from the film.1988 Helped set up Aotearoa Radio1990 appeared in Barry Barclay film Te Rua, sang “Chudka Pā Roy” anti-apartheid song on soundtrack and composed soundtrack.1990 Joined Maui Pomare research team, campaigned for return of mokomokai, stolen Māori taonga, from Europe. 1990 produced the award-winning music to the "1990 SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND", a year-long TV campaign for Saatchi and Saatchi. Produced “Kua Makona” by Moana Maniapoto. ALAC music video won best music soundtrack at International Film & Television Awards, New York.1993 played himself in TV series “Radio Wha Waho”

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1994 “Poi E: The Musical” World Premiere at New Plymouth Opera House. NZ tour. Hawaii performance. Solo US and Australian tours.Opera in the Park performance of “Anei Ra”. Annually, for 6 years - Played Hana Koko, Father Christmas in ‘Christmas in the Park’1996 performed with US singer Marilyn Byers Ali at International Festival of the Arts, followed by a tour with her in the Palmerston North Operatic Society’s production of Hair” and a series of New York concerts.1996 debut of his radio show Kiwi Hits1998 USA tour, including negotiations to return mokomokai and meetings with Native American groups.1999 revamped The Fascinations with new members. 1999 11- day season of revived “Poi E The Musical” at Easter Show and Aotea Centre in Auckland. 1999 Accepted prestigious Iwi title Kai Ariki Tu Wairangi.1999 stood for Parliament in Western Maori Te Tai Hauauru. Campaigned through song.2002 Te Waka Toi, Creative New Zealand special Award for his "leadership and outstanding contribution to Maori arts"2002, October 3 Dalvanius died of cancer, aged 54.2003 “A Man of Passion” released

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Ngoi Pēwhairangi – Dalvanius’s Māori mentor and co-composer of ‘Poi E’

Composer, performer, sportswoman, shearer, weaver, Maori Language teacher and advocate, co-

developer of Te Ataarangi language learning method, advisor to the Government, foundation member of

the Council for Maori and South Pacific Arts, advisor to Michael King/Barry Barclay TV series Tangata

Whenua and much more. Ngoi Pēwhairangi was an extraordinarily knowledgeable person who worked

towards fostering understanding between Māori and Pākeha throughout her life.

The comprehensive biography of Ngoi Pēwhairangi is here:

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5p25/pewhairangi-te-kumeroa-Ngoi

by Tania M. Ka'ai. 'Pewhairangi, Te Kumeroa Ngoi', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 7-Jan-2014

Excerpt:

Ngoi Pewhairangi herself composed many songs, such as ‘Kia kaha nga iwi’, ‘Ka noho au’ and

‘Whakarongo’. Many were written for specific events, including the visit of the Prince and Princess of

Wales in 1983, when she was responsible for the organisation of the official welcome. She was

renowned for her spontaneity in writing compositions for various people. Of these songs, ‘E Ipo’,

recorded by Prince Tui Teka, and ‘Poi E’, by Dalvanius Prime and the Patea Maori Club, are best

known. They earned gold and platinum records for selling, respectively, 7,500 and 15,000 copies.

Tania M Ka’ai also wrote the book:

Ngoi Pēwhairangi: An Extraordinary Life, published by Huia Publishing

http://bit.ly/220Cikp

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The Patea Māori Club

The Patea Māori Club was an established Māori cultural performance group, touring the country,

competing in kapa haka events, recording waiata and acting and singing in television dramas for many

years before ‘Poi E’ made them famous in 1984.

Initially set up in 1967 as the Patea Methodist Maori Club by Reverend Naapi Waaka, the group became

skilled in poi, action song, haka and stage performance generally. There was an over-arching philosophy

that the group would help to develop leadership talents, preserve Te Reo Māori, speech-making and

traditional arts and crafts. In addition to their New Zealand activities, 12 members toured New Guinea in

1974, two members went as part of a 40-person group to China in 1979 and in 1980 four members

toured with a group to Hong Kong.

The group’s name was changed to the Patea Māori Club in 1980 and the years 1981-82, when Maui

Dalvanius Prime was musical director, saw the club move in a more modern musical direction,

culminating in the release of ‘Poi E’, composed by Dalvanius and Ngoi Pēwhairangi, in 1984.

‘Poi E’ reached No1 on the pop charts and stayed there for four weeks out of a total of 22 weeks on the

charts. The song on the B-side, “Aku Raukura”, was also popular, reaching No 10 in a 12-week stay on

the charts.

In 1985 The Patea Māori Club were made NZ Ambassadors and travelled to the UK, where they

performed at the Royal Gala before Queen Elizabeth II. British magazine New Musical Express named

‘Poi E’ its single of the week.

The Patea Māori Club also played the London Palladium and the Edinburgh Festival, and in 1986 they

toured the US. Back home, in 1987 they performed at the Te Maori Exhibition in Auckland and various

festivals and formal engagements.

The group won Best Polynesian Album in the 1984 NZ Music Awards and Best Group in the New

Zealand Entertainer of the Year Awards. In 1994 the original ‘Poi E’ went Gold and the group were

awarded the Golden Scroll Award in the 1994 Entertainer of the Year Awards. They were awarded the

Music Industry Award at the 2009 New Zealand Maori Music Awards.

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“Poi E, The Musical” had its world premiere in New Plymouth in 1996 and was revived in 1999 for an

11-day season at the Easter Show and Aotea Centre in Auckland.

In 1996, in London, the group played sell-out concerts at the Commonwealth Institute, Queen Elizabeth

II Hall on South Bank, The Beck Theatre and starred at the Emporium in a benefit concert for Nelson

Mandela televised by Channel 4. In seven days the group made five TV appearances including TVAM,

Good Morning Britain (twice in one week) and Blue Peter. They also visited the House Of Commons,

hosted by the then Labour Leader Neil Kinnock.

On tour in America they played in New York, Washington DC, the Te Maori exhibition in St Louis and

a series of concerts in Los Angeles including Disneyland. Dalvanius told Billboard magazine: "The

highlight of our tour has been the concert supporting The Violent Femmes at Irving Plaza, New York."

For the past 33 years, Patea Māori Club has been performing at major events to represent New Zealand

in the world, like the Tourism Expo in Guangzhou, China in 2011 and the Maori Tourism Initiative in

Sydney in 2014. In 2005 they were selected by the New Zealand Government to represent New Zealand

at the World Expo in Aichi, Japan and to perform in Seoul, South Korea. They also still perform

regularly at events around New Zealand, like the 2015 Wellington Sevens Tournament. Always loyal to

their hometown Patea, the group organises and performs at a musical event every Waitangi Day

(February 6) called PaePae in the Park – an event which has become a day-long festival of

entertainment, food and market stalls, aimed at encouraging and supporting the community’s youth.

And they still practice their performance every Monday at their main street Patea clubrooms.

*sources & related links

Patea Maori Club 25th Birthday Celebration booklet (1992)- courtesy of Waimarie Cassidy

http://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/dalvanius

BBC interview with club president Waimarie Cassidy in 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vk8wb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi_E

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Barletta Prime - singer, sister of Dalvanius Prime

Of Ngāpuhi and Ngā Rauru descent, Barletta Prime is Dalvanius’s Prime’s sister. At the age of 16,

Barletta took her band, The Hymarkies, to Vietnam, Bangkok and Asia, playing to the troops. In 1973,

after 18 months in Asia, she went to Sydney and teamed up with her brother Dalvanius as a singer in

The Fascinations.

Barletta toured with Dalvanius through Australia, Asia and USA with many top soul performers such as

Tina Turner, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick, The Pointer Sisters, Eartha Kitt. Dalvanius and The

Fascinations were at the top of the Australian entertainment scene when they debuted the opening series

of concerts at the Sydney Opera House, supporting Petula Clark. In 1979 Dalvanius and Barletta came

back to New Zealand to care for their ailing mother. Barletta stayed in Patea ever since and was an

original member of The Patea Maori Club performance of ‘Poi E’.

Barletta appears as herself in interviews in POI E and she is played by Summer Mokomoko in the

performance sequence.

Maaka Pōhatu plays Dalvanius Prime in on-stage and radio interview reconstructions

Playing Dalvanius Prime in POI E is an apt role for Maaka Pōhatu. He is Dalvanius Prime’s nephew

through links to the Taiaroa family. His iwi connections are Ngai Ta Manuhiri, Rongo Whakata,

Kahungunu, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tuwharetoa and Rongomaiwahine.

Pōhatu is known for his role as Gav in Two Little Boys (2012) and performances in TV drama Until

Proven Innocent (2009) and short film Inorganic (2012). Pōhatu is a member of Wellington-based

Maori Theatre institution Taki Rua Theatre Company.

He is a vocalist and guitarist in the Modern Māori Quartet, which recently featured in the TVOne

entertainment series Happy Hour with Temuera Morrison and is in demand for live performances. He is

referred to as the “The Human Jukebox” for his diverse musical talent.

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Tearepa Kahi - Writer/Director/Editor/Executive Producer

Tearepa Kahi wrote and directed Mt Zion, which won nine awards including Best Film and Best

Director at the 2013 New Zealand Film Awards and was a success in the NZ box office.

In 2015, he and his wife Reikura Kahi produced and directed the Te Reo Māori stage production of

Romeo and Juliet, Rōmeo raua ko Hurieta, which was performed at the Auckland Museum’s Māori

Court in the in augural Matariki Season of Shakespeare. They also made a documentary series about the

making of the play for Māori Television.

He wrote and directed and edited the short film Taua, which won the best short film award at the 2007

National Geographic All Roads Festival (USA) and was awarded honourable mention at the 2007

ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Canada. His other short film, The Speaker, won the

Friends of the Civic Award for Best Short Film and the 2006 Wairoa Māori Film Festival Short Film

Drama Award.

He has also directed TV documentaries The Flight of Te Hookioi, which earned him a best director

nomination at the 2010 Qantas Film and Television Awards; and First Time in Prison for TV3’s

prestigious Inside New Zealand slot in 2008. His director credits also include Allan Baldwin: In Frame,

One Fine Day, Kōwhao Rau, All Roads Profile, Native School and Maori ID.

Kahi is a member of Te Paepae Ataata – the Māori Script Development Board - and is on the board of

the NZ International Film Festival. He is a former Chairman of Ngā Aho Whakaari – the Māori film and

television organisation - and the creative and cultural consultant for Māori Television’s brand

campaigns. He was presenter of Iti Pounamu, Māori Television series on films and filmmaking.

Of Ngāti Paoa and Waikato descent, he grew up in Christchurch in a musical family. He sang and

played trumpet and saxophone. At age 17 he was selected to perform in a play at the Christchurch Arts

Festival. He was spotted by actor/director and Māori theatre pioneer Jim Moriarty, who asked him to

join the theatre troupe Te Rākau Hua o te Wao Tapu. The troupe toured New Zealand, performing in

schools, universities, prisons and marae. Kahi left the group after two and a half years to settle in

Auckland, where he completed a degree in History and Māori at Auckland University.

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He worked as an actor while also directing for children’s television show Tikitiki and the documentary

Ahorangi. He played Roroneto (Lorenzo) in Don Selwyn’s landmark te reo Māori feature film Te

Tangata Whai Rawa o Weneti (The Maori Merchant of Venice) and roles in Shortland Street, the

television series Mataku and Aroha and a short film, The Hill.

Alexander Behse – Producer

German-born Alexander Behse moved to New Zealand in 2002 after completing an MA in producing at

Sydney University of Technology. In New Zealand he gained work as an editor on a run of TV shows,

from current affairs and Anzac Day ceremonies, to the Mike King-presented Treaty series Lost in

Translation.

Behse also holds an MA in European Audio-visual Management from Spain’s Media Business School.

He began exercising his producer muscles with The Flight of the Hookioi (2009), which recreated the

19th Century journey of two Māori rangatira to Austria. Hookioi director Tearepa Kahi was nominated

for Best Director at the 2010 Qantas Awards.

Hookioi marked the first of many explorations of Te Ao Māori for Behse. His next film, Allan Baldwin:

In Frame (2011) profiled a photographer’s work recording tā moko on Māori kuia. Also directed by

Kahi, the documentary was awarded at the 2013 Wairoa Māori Film Festival and Tahiti's FIFO

documentary festival.

The Road to the Globe, directed by Mike Jonathan, followed the Te Reo Māori production of

Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” from New Zealand to the Globe Theatre in the UK. It won a

second jury prize at FIFO in 2013 and sold to PBS in the US.

Behse went on to produce popular primetime series Radar across the Pacific, which won Best Factual

Series at the 2012 NZ TV Awards. Behse then produced revisionist NZ history series Radar’s

Chequered Past.

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In 2014 Behse produced the Prime TV series Davey Hughes - Untamed. In 2015 he produced Māori

Television doco Freezing Works, in which director Mike Jonathan followed a group of New Zealanders,

heading off for a working experience in Iceland.

Behse made his directorial debut in 2012 with Nazi Hunter, which follows an ex-policeman

investigating escaped Nazi collaborators in Aotearoa. The documentary was made for TV3’s Inside New

Zealand doco slot.

The documentary Ever The Land premiered at the 2015 NZ International Film Festival, and has

travelled to festivals in Vancouver, Hawaii and New York. Behse teamed up with another German-Kiwi

— director Sarah Grohnert — to chronicle an architectural and cultural journey towards realising a

Tūhoe HQ in Taneatua. The Ngāi Tūhoe grand design — a collaboration between iwi and architects

Jasmax — aimed to embody the people's self-determination, and become Aotearoa’s first completely

sustainable “living building”.

Behse has a documentary project in development with Annie Goldson (on Kim Dotcom). He is also

executive producing a  Gaylene Preston documentary looking at the UN through the eyes of former NZ

Prime Minister Helen Clark.

Reikura Kahi – Producer

Reikura Kahi (Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Porou, and Rarotonga) has been working in the Māori

screen industry for over 20 years, as presenter, actor, producer, Te Reo Māori consultant and

programme commissioner.

Among her credits is the award-winning children’s show, Pūkana, for which she was presenter, actor,

researcher and producer over many years. As actor, she played Tiehika (Jessica) in the the landmark

Māori language feature film, Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weneti, directed by Don Selwyn.

Since leaving Māori Television, where she was the Māori Language Programming Commissioner for six

years, she has become a producer for her husband, Tearepa Kahi.

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Sitting alongside her producer duties is her commitment to Te Reo Māori – she is also a teacher at her

grandmother Ereti Taituha Paraone Bristow’s early childhood centre, Te Puna Reo o Manawanui in Te

Atatū Peninsula, Auckland. She is the mother of Te Rangihoua, Rereiao and Waiheke.

POI E is her first feature film role as a producer, but she is largely responsible for all of Tearepa’s good

ideas, says Tearepa.

Tuteri Dal Rangihaeata - associate producer

Dalvanius Prime’s nephew Tuteri Dal Rangihaeata is named after Dalvanius himself. He is co-producer

on POI E, representing the Patea Maori Club in the filmmaking entity Patea Film Collective. Of Ngāti

Ruanui, Ngā Rauru and Ngā Ruahine descent, he is the director of WAHA: The Maori Creative Agency.

He gained a Postgraduate Diploma in business marketing and Masters in business management at the

University of Auckland Business School.

Fred Renata – Director of PhotographyFred Renata is established as one of New Zealand’s leading directors of photography. He worked with

Tearepa Kahi on Mt Zion, which won Best Film at the 2013 New Zealand Film and Television Awards.

He won the New Zealand TV Awards best camera: drama award in 2003 for his work on the TV series

Street Legal. He was nominated at the 2005 New Zealand Screen Awards for his cinematography on the

feature film Fracture and at the 2006 Qantas Television Awards for the TV series Doves of War.

His work includes the documentaries Mou Piri: A Rarotongan Love Song and Fixing Juvie Justice, he

was cinematographer and producer of the short film Baby Steps. He was cinematographer for the

television drama of the Witi Ihimaera novel Nights in the Gardens of Spain and the feature documentary

He Wawata Whaea, profiling te reo advocate Merimeri Penfold, which was a finalist in the 2010

Documentary Edge Film Festival. Other documentaries include Taku Huarahi Ki Tua O Te Arai, Let My

Whakapapa Speak, Tangaroa and Tapu. Other television dramas include Orange Roughies, Skin and

Bone, Hard Out, Mataku and Being Eve.

He was originally an electrical engineer before joining the lighting department on Merata Mita’s

ground-breaking feature film Mauri.

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Jos Wheeler – Director of Photography

Jos Wheeler was director of photography for the documentary directed by Kim Webby about Tame Iti,

The Price of Peace and the feature film Rest For The Wicked, as well as numerous short films, music

videos and TV commercials.

He is also known as a photographer recording important political and social history events.

Francis Glenday – Editor (with Tearepa Kahi)

Francis Glenday is an editor & animator who works on a wide range of projects – films, TV series and

commercials for television, online and in cinema.

Major projects include the Foxtel documentary series Coast Australia, for Great Southern Television,

executive produced by Phillip Smith; the Prime TV documentary feature on student radio, Radio Punks,

directed by Paul Casserly; Undercover Rescue, directed by Dean Cornish, about the efforts of New

Zealand organization Nvader to rescue children and enslaved women from the sex trade in Southeast

Asia. In 2009 he edited Birdland, presented by Jeremy Wells, a series described as “beautiful scenery,

most glorious birds and some wonderfully eccentric characters of the birding world”

He also edited two Nigel Latta documentary series: Beyond the Darklands and The Politically Incorrect

Guide to Teenagers and in 2007, he wrote and directed a short film horror/western Tumanako Springs.

http://digitalscissors.co.nz/

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Jan Hellriegel – Music Supervisor

Jan Hellriegel was a member of Cassandra’s Ears, an all-girl indy pop-rock band formed at Otago

University n the 1980s. Cassandra’s Ears developed a strong following and toured NZ extensively

before disbanding in 1989, after recording two self-funded EPs. In 1990, she signed to Warner Music

NZ as a solo artist, becoming their first local signing and the first NZ female singer/songwriter to be

picked up by a major for a full development deal. Her single, “The Way I Feel” reached No 2, and two

further singles reached the Top 10. She was support artist on NZ tours by David Byrne and The Cure.

She moved to Melbourne in 1994, where she supported two Jeff Buckley tours and released her second

album “Tremble’, in 1995. After leaving Warners in 1997 and returning to New Zealand, she kept on

writing and eventually released the critically acclaimed All Grown Up on her own label, Blind Date. In

2009. She released Lost Songs in 2013 and has other releases planned.

http://www.janhellriegel.com

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POI E – Full credits

Written, Directed and Executive Produced byTEAREPA KAHI

ProducerALEXANDER BEHSE

ProducerREIKURA KAHILine Producer

CALLIE ADAMS                         Associate Producers                           

TUTERI RANGIHAEATAERUERA TE WHITI NIA

    Associate ProducersNATASHA PRIME

NEPHI PRIME

In order of appearance:GRANT ‘BIG RED’ HURLEY

STAN WALKERTAIKA WAITITI

DALVANIUS PRIMECHRIS ‘SILKY VOICE’ BOURKE

BARLETTA PRIMESYD KERSHAW

BARRY NEWLOVEASH MCKAYMOHI GRAY

TAME RANGIHAEATAFLUKEY KAHUKURANUI

NANA BUB PRIMEAUNTY BIB NGAREWA

HINERANGI KATUKORO NAPI WAAKA

MIRI SNEEMURRAY CAMMICK

MAAKA PŌHATUSUMMER MOKOMOKO

MARIA WALKERSHANE MCLEANMAHUIKA RAWIRI

ROPATA MATTHEWS

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JAMES MAEVAGEORGE HENARE

APIRANA ‘POET SUPREMO’ TAYLORPRINCE TUI TEKA

PAUL HOLMESKUMEROA NGOI PĒWHAIRANGI

CONNIE PĒWHAIRANGITE AO-MIHIA PĒWHAIRANGI TE HAU

MARYANNE BROUGHTONTANEA HEKE

JIMMY MARUERATUPITO MARUERAHINEWEHI MOHI

MOANA MANIAPOTOANNIE CRUMMER

HUGH LYNNDON MCGLASHANSTUART PEARSE

DAVE HURLEYPHIL YULE

TAMA RENATAPAUL CARVELLWAKA ATTWELL

JOE MOANADEREK FOX

STEVE PARRNEIL KINNOCK

SYD KAAHUJOOLS TOPPLYNDA TOPP

SIR. PITA SHARPLESNATASHA PRIME

CHAKA ‘I’M THE CUTEST CHIHUAHUA’ PRIMETE KĀINGA O TE HINE-KĀHU WAITITI

ALISHIBA PRIME - DAL’S DAUGHTERHUIA ‘INDY’ PRIME - DAL’S BROUGHTON WHĀNAU GRANDDAUGHTER

Made with the support of

THE PĀTEA MĀORI CLUB

    ASHBY WHĀNAU    BAIN WHĀNAU    BIDDLE WHĀNAU    BROUGHTON WHĀNAU    CASSIDY WHĀNAU    CUNNINGHAM WHĀNAU    DAVIS WHĀNAU    GALVIN WHĀNAU

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    HEREMAIA WHĀNAU    HOPKINS WHĀNAU    HIKUROA WHĀNAU    HINGA WHĀNAU    HURUNUI WHĀNAU    HIKUROA WHĀNAU    HOKOPAURA WHĀNAU    HOTERINI WHĀNAU    HORI WHĀNAU    HUDSON WHĀNAU    KĀHU WHĀNAU    KATU WHĀNAU    KERSHAW WHĀNAU    KIRIONA WHĀNAU    KING WHĀNAU    KII SUE WHĀNAU KOROWHITI WHĀNAU        KATENE WHĀNAU    LUKE WHĀNAU    MANAIA WHĀNAU    MARUERA WHĀNAU    MENDES WHĀNAU    MATIAHA WHĀNAU    MORUNGA WHĀNAU    MCLEOD WHĀNAU    MCLEAN WHĀNAU    MARAKI WHĀNAU    NUI WHĀNAU    NYMAN WHĀNAU    NUKU WHĀNAU    NGAREWA WHĀNAU    NGAIRA WHĀNAU    PULLEN WHĀNAU    PHILLIPS WHĀNAU    PARINGĀTAI WHĀNAU    PRIME WHĀNAU    PARATA WHĀNAU    PŌKAI WHĀNAU PIRIKAHU WHĀNAU        RAIMONA WHĀNAU MOANA WHĀNAU        RANGIHAEATA WHĀNAU    RIO WHĀNAU    REI WHĀNAU    ROBINSON WHĀNAU    ROSS WHĀNAU    STUART WHĀNAU    TAMOU WHĀNAU    TE AWHE WHĀNAU    TOWERS WHĀNAU    THORNTON WHĀNAU    TUCKER WHĀNAU    TUI WHĀNAU    YATES WHĀNAU    WHAREAITU WHĀNAU    WAAKA WHĀNAU    WHĀNAU WHĀNAU    WILCOX WHĀNAU

The Dalvanius Prime EstateNEPHI PRIME EDDIE PRIME

BARLETTA PRIMENATASHA PRIME

ROBYN PRIMEALISHIBA PRIME

UNCLE PAT HEREMAIA“MOE MAI RĀ, E TE PĀPĀ”

                                                                       The Ngoi Pēwhairangi Whānau Trust

TERE-I-TE-WAI PĒWHAIRANGICONNIE PĒWHAIRANGI

GINA PĒWHAIRANGITE AO MIHIA PĒWHAIRANGI TE HAU

TANIA KA’AI

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CREW

    Director of Photography    JOS WHEELER        MATUA FRED RENATA

    Editors    FRANCIS GLENDAY        TEAREPA KAHI    Compile Editor    TUATAROA NEILL    Assistant Editor    JAMES RĀTAHI    Consultant Editor    WHAEA ANNIE COLLINS

    Lead Researcher    KATH AKUHATA-BROWN    Archive Researchers    ANGELA BOYD    Archive Clearances    CAROLYN HARPER    Production Designer    SAVAGE    Costume Designer    GAVIN MCLEAN    Make-Up Artist    VEE GULLIVER

    1st Assistant Director    NEIL JAMES

    Sound Recordist    COLLEEN BRENNAN    Financial Controller    BARBARA COSTON    Production Designer    SAVAGE    Key Grip/ Lighting Assistant    STACEY HUI    Unit Publicist    SUE MAY    Legals    KAREN SOICH LAW

 

Drama Re-creation Cast

    Dalvanius Prime    MAAKA POHATU    Barletta Prime    SUMMER MOKOMOKO    Henare Te Ua    GEORGE ‘KOROKORO’ HENARE    Ngoi Pēwhairangai    TANEA HEKE    Fascination    MARIA WALKER

    Collision #1    SHANE MCLEAN    Collision #2    MAHU RAWIRI    Collision #3    JAMES MAEVA    Collision #4    ROPATA MATTHEWS    Chihuahua (Hawera)    LADY

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        BOSS        STORM    Chihuahua (Auckland)    CJ        MISSYAdditional Crew

    Production Coordinators    LANITA RIRINUI-RYAN        KATH AKUHATA-BROWN    Camera Operator    CHRIS MAUGER    PMC Home Video Operator    TUPITO MARUERA    Gaffer    JAMES YOUNG    Lighting Assistants    BEN MONTGOMERY        CHARLIE ADAMS        JEREMIAH-JAMES YOUNG    Grips    TE RA TE HEI        DAVE PERRETT    Sound Recordist    FRASER SATHERLEY    1st AC    ALEX CAMPBELL        JAMES RUA        CARITA DEJONG        JOEL BRODRICK    Camera Assistants    HARRY BAKER        JOHNNY CROWE

    Researcher    PAULA JONES    Research Assistants    RYLEY ALLEN        MARIA WALKER    Production Runners    TONY SIHAMAU        JAMES TITO    Trainee Director    HEPERI MITA    Costume Coordinator    PAULINE BOWKETT    Make-Up Artists    VANESSA HURLEY        PILAR ALEGRE        CHRISTINA LAJDES    3rd AD    RAYNE MOKARAKA    Stills Photographers    KIRSTY GRIFFINS        TUTERI RANGIHAEATA        GEOFF SHORT        JOS WHEELER    EPK    BENJAMIN BROOKING    Stock Truck Driver    LES SOUTHCOMB    Chihuahuas (Patea) supplied by    K-TRIO CHIHUAHUA KENNELS    Chihuahuas (Auckland)    JENN RANGIAWHA    Chihuahua Handlers    KYLIE CRAWFORD        KEVIN CRAWFORD        MANDY HENDERSON

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        SARAH COROMANDEL    Cadillac Picture Vehicle    KEITH AND CHRISTINE STEEL    Stock Truck    SANDFORD LIVESTOCK LTD    Technician    ROSS MULLINS        THEATRE LAMP AND LIGHTING    Musical Instruments    DENNIS SHEARER        BOB FRISBEE

Post Production    Film Scanning    PARK ROAD POST        DEAN WATKINS        LOUISE BAKER

    Graphics & Animation    DEEP ANIMATION        JEFF ‘THE CHEF’ SMITH        JUDE ‘ZEN MASTER’ FOLKARD Poi E Album Artwork         JOE WYLIE

    Post Production Supervisor    ROGER GRANT        CONBRIO MEDIA LTD    Post Production    IMAGES AND SOUND    Head of Images    GRANT BAKER    Colourist    PAUL LEAR    Online Editor    ANDREW MORTIMER    Visual Effects    BRENTON CUMBERPATCH    Post Production Supervisor    PAUL SMITH    Deliverables Specialist    TRISTAN SIMPSON

    Sound Post Facilities    READE AUDIO    Sound Designers    DICK READE        COLLEEN BRENNAN    Re-recording Mixer    R J READE

    Sound Mix Facilities    PARK ROAD POST       Mix Tech    JOHN NEILL

        Re-Recording Mixer    PETE SMITH             Sound Recordist        ADRIAN MEDHURST

    Sony Pictures New Zealand    ANDREW CORNWALL        CHRISTINE MASSEY        JACINDA RYAN    Sony Music    KIM BOSHIER        GARETH BROWN

    Poster Design    HATCH STUDIOS

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        GRANT MACDONALD        GARY TUCKER

    Trailer    THE SOLID STATE        WALTER BIENZ        ANNA CHURVEN

Archives with thanks to

AOTEA UTANGANUI MUSEUM OF SOUTH TARANAKICAMERON CURDCATH SHEARD

           .AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION LIBRARY SALES                                                                                                            

BARLETTA PRIME PERSONAL COLLECTIONDALVANIUS PRIME ESTATE ARCHIVES

BILL BROWN PERSONAL ARCHIVE  “BOY” COURTESY OF WHENUA FILMS & TRANSMISSION FILMS

AINSLEY GARDINERCLIFF CURTIS

EMANUEL MICHAELTAIKA WAITITI  

CHRIS BOURKE                                  

FAIRFAX MEDIA  NZ / AUCKLAND STARFAIRFAX MEDIA NZ / TARANAKI DAILY NEWS

FESTIVAL RECORDS NZ - WEA RECORDS

GETTY IMAGESROYAL GALA PERFORMANCE COURTESY OF BBC

BLUE PETER COURTESY OF BBCCONCORDE COURTESY OF BRITISH AIRWAYS  

                                                   GIL HANLY

GISBORNE HERALDLORI VALLINS  

“MAGGIE” COURTESY OF TARUPA  WRITTEN BY T ALLEN / M FOSTER / D CASSIDY

PERFORMED BY FOSTER AND ALLEN                                                          

MURRAY CAMMICKNGĀ TAONGA SOUND & VISION-NGĀ TAONGA

WHITIĀHUA ME NGĀ TAONGA KORERO

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TANIA LOUGHLINLAWRENCE WHARERAU

SARAH JOHNSTONNZ LISTENER,  BAUER MEDIA GROUP NZ

NZ LISTENER ( Photographer - Bruce Connew) BAUER MEDIA GROUP NZOTAGO DAILY TIMES  / NEWSPIX.CO.NZ

PĀTEA MĀORI CLUB

PATEA AND WAVERLEY PRESS PĒWHAIRANGI WHANAU TRUST   

“POI E FILM RUSHES”PAUL CARVELL

“THE POWER OF MUSIC - TE KAHA O TE WAIATA” COURTESY OF MATTE BOX FILMS

TRISHIA DOWNIEHUGH LYNNJOHN DAY

LEE TAMAHORIARCHIVAL FOOTAGE FROM MATERIAL MADE & PRESERVED  BY

NGĀ TAONGA SOUND & VISION-NGĀ TAONGA WHITIĀHUA ME NGĀ TAONGA KORERO.

“RACE AGAINST TIME” COURTESY OF JAMES WALLACE PRODUCTIONS

JAMES WALLACESTUART MAIN     GRAE BURTON

    RADIO NEW ZEALAND                                                         

CHRIS BOURKEGEORGE BIGNELL

LIISA MCMILLAN    HENARE ‘TE TIHI’ TE UA

                                   RANGI PARKER  

“READY TO ROLL FOOTAGE” FROM TVNZ FEATURING BOB MARLEY

VIDEO CLIP UNIVERSAL MUSIC

“READY TO ROLL FOOTAGE” FROM TVNZ FEATURING CYNDI LAUPER

VIDEO CLIP SONY MUSIC

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“READY TO ROLL FOOTAGE” FROM TVNZ FEATURING RAY PARKER JUNIOR

VIDEO CLIP  SONY MUSIC          

RICHARD DRIVERVISIONARY FILMS

                       SUSANNE MOORE – “ROCK ON”   

                                   TVNZ TELEVISION ARCHIVE

WANGANUI CHRONICLE / NEWSPIX.CO.NZ             

Music

Music Supervision        AEROPLANE MUSIC SERVICES

JAN HELLRIEGEL & WAYNE BELL

“FRESH (THEME)”Composed by Stewart Copeland

© Kinetic Kollection Songs. All rights administered by Shapiro Bernstein and Co Inc.By kind permission of Wallaby Music Pty Ltd

Performed by Stewart CopelandBy kind permission of Wallaby Music Pty Ltd

“POI E”Written by N. K. Pewhairangi / M. D. Prime

Performed by Pātēa Maori Club Licensed courtesy of Jayrem Records Ltd

“CONCERTO FOR JAZZ ROCK ORCHESTRA PART 1”Written by S. Clarke

Clarkee MusicAdministered by Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd

Performed by Stanley ClarkeLicensed courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand Limited

“SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME”Composed by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman

© 1960 Unichappellmusic Inc.By kind permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd

Performed by Prince Tui TekaLicensed courtesy of Henry Peke

“TRA LA LA”Written by Johnny Parker© EMI Longitude Music

Licensed by EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Limited

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Performed by Aunty Bub and Nana Bib“THE LANGUAGE SONG”

Performed by Vera Kershaw, Shirley Cunningham (Turkey), Huia Davis, Aunty Barti“KA EKE WĪWĪ, KA EKE WĀWĀ”

Written by Te Napi WaakaPerformed by Pātēa Māori Club

Licensed courtesy of Pātēa Māori Club

“RERE ATU TAKU POI”Written by Dovey Hovarth KatenePerformed by Pātēa Māori Club

Licensed courtesy of Pātēa Māori Club“TIKI TIKI EE”

TraditionalPerformed Pātēa Māori Club

Licensed courtesy of Pātēa Māori Club“HE HARI NUI”

TraditionalPerformed by Pātēa Māori Club

Licensed courtesy of Pātēa Māori Club“YOU CAN DANCE”

Written by A. Morgan (control)Performed by Collision

Licensed courtesy of Warner Music New Zealand Limited“VOODOO LADY”

Written by D. PrimeCourtesy of Mushroom Music Publishing

Performed by Dalvanius PrimeLicensed courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation Library Sales.

“RAPTURE &  TEN TRILLION STARS”Written and performed by Stephen Daniel Lemaire

Universal Production MusicLicensed courtesy APRA/AMCOS

“SCORE (A) MAIN VERSION”Written by Richard Myhill

EMI Production MusicLicensed courtesy APRA/AMCOS

“KA HURI”Traditional

Performed by South Taranaki Māori ClubLicensed courtesy of Pātēa Māori Club

“E IPO”Written by T. Teka / N. K. Pēwhairangi

By Kind permission of Henry George Peke  and Tere-iti-wai PēwhairangiPerformed by Prince Tui Teka

Licensed courtesy of TVNZ

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“KAI TE RĀ”Traditional arrangement by Ngoi Pēwhairangi

Courtesy of Tere-iti-wai PēwhairangiPerformed by Ngoi Pēwhairangi

Licensed courtesy of TVNZ“TIRO TIRO NOA”

Written by Maui Dalvanius Prime / Ngoi K. PēwhairangiPerformed by Dal and Barletta

Licensed courtesy of Maryanne Broughton“POI E” ACOUSTIC

Written by Ngoi K. Pēwhairangi / Maui Dalvanius PrimePerformed by Barletta, Dalvanius Prime and Ngoi Pēwhairangi

Licensed courtesy of Maryanne Broughton“E PAPA”

Written and Arranged by Maui Dalvanius PrimePerformed by Pātēa Maori Club

Licensed courtesy of Jayrem Records Ltd“YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET”

Written and performed by Randy BachmanCourtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing

© Sony/ATV Songs LLC, licensed by Sony/ATV Publishing (Australia) Pty Limited“RTR COUNTDOWN THEME”

Written and performed by Peter Blake (control)Licensed courtesy of Peter Blake

“MAGGIE”Written by T. Allen / M. Foster / D. Cassidy

Performed by Foster and AllenLicensed courtesy of Tarupa PTY LTD

“G GROOVE”Written and performed by Gareth Thomas

Licensed  Courtesy of Songbroker New Zealand“BUFFALO GALS”

Composed by A.Dudley / T.Horn / M.McLarenNative Tongue Publishing on behalf of Perfect Songs

© Buffalo Music Ltd Administered by J Albert & Son Pty Ltd© Peermusic (UK) Limited.  Licensed by peermusic

Performed by Malcolm McLarenLicensed courtesy Fashionbeast LLC

'CHAINS' Composed by Thomson / Ness / McNaughton / Rangihuna (Control),

Administered by: Universal Music Publishing, Performed by DLT Featuring Che Fu

Licensed courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment NZ Ltd“KARANGATIA RĀ”

Traditional

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Performed by Pātēa Māori ClubLicensed courtesy of Pātēa Māori Club

 “E TE IWI E”Traditional

Performed by Pātēa Māori ClubLicensed courtesy of Pātēa Māori Club

“Jazz 1”Instrumental

Licensed courtesy of Leyton Greening“NGĀ ŌHAKI”

TraditionalPerformed by Pātēa Māori ClubComposed by Ngoi Pēwhairangi

Licensed courtesy of Pātēa Māori Club“HEI KŌNEI RA”

TraditionalArranged by Ngoi K. Pēwhairangi / Maui Dalvanius Prime

Licensed courtesy of Jayrem Records Ltd“NGOI NGOI”

Written by Ngoi K. Pēwhairangi / Maui Dalvanius PrimePerformed by Pātēa Māori Club

Licensed courtesy of Jayrem Records Ltd

“Come Back Home” Written by Charles Vincent Harder / Abby Katherine Lee By kind permission of Harder Music Group Pty Limited

Performed by Maaka PōhatuCourtesy of Sony Music NZ Ltd

Ngā Mihi Nui:

PARIROA PĀTŪTAHI CHURCH

PĀKIRIKIRI MARAETAIPOROHENUI MARAETAURANGA IKA MARAE

MARTY & MIHIPENE DAVISHOANI WAITITI MARAE

TE KURA KAUPAPA MĀORI O HOANI WAITITI MARAETE KAPA HAKA O TE HOKOWHITU-Ā-TŪ

KARORIA MATAHIKIHAWERA SILVER FERNS FARM

ASH MCKAY

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TIM MURDOCHRICHARD CAMPBELL

BAILEY MACKEYASHLEY COUPLAND

PHILIPPA RENNIERANGI RANGITUKUNOA

SELWYN PARATA                            TIM FINN                        ROBERT POUWHARE                            DEBORAH REWITI                        LAWRENCE WHARERAU                            DEREK FOX                            ERINA TAMEPO                            GEORGE BIGNELL                        ARTHUR BAYSTING

CHRIS KNOXHUGH LYNN

WARRIOR RECORDS STEBBINGS STUDIO ARCHIVES

MURRAY CULLENSIMON LYNCHAIMEE MILLARBILL BROWN

GARRY LITTLEEDWARD SAMPSON

NGĀ AHO WAHAKAARIWHETU FALA

HINEANI MELBOURNECHRISTINA ASHER

MARIA KUITICLIFF CURTIS

MARTIN CLEAVECHELSEA WINSTANLEY

KEN SPARKSTRAJAN SCHWENCKE

TIMO MUELLERHAARE WILLIAMSJOANNE BEHSE

JOHN KEIRDAWN MARUERAPAUL CARVELL

CRUNCH‘FLEX-I’

BILL GOSDEN AND THE STAFF AND BOARD OF THE NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

NEW ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION - STAFF AND BOARD

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DAVE GIBSONLISA CHATFIELD

CHLOE MCLOUGHLINJASMIN MCSWEENEY

MARC ASHTONNZ ON AIR /  IRIRANGI O TE MOTU - STAFF AND BOARD

JANE WRIGHTSONGLENN USMARBENEDICT REID

TE MĀNGAI PĀHO - STAFF AND BOARDLARRY PARR

JOHN BISHARAMAORI TELEVISION SERVICE

HAUNUI ROYALMIKE REHU

NEVAK ROGERSPOUROTO NGAROPO

Patea Film Collective would like to thank

    KĪNGI TUHEITIA    QUEEN ELIZABETH II

    NICHE CAMERAS LIMITED    PATRICK MONAGHAN

    BRIAN BUCKLAND    JIM HUNIA

    ANDRE UPSTON    FRANCIS NOLLER

    NIGEL RUSSELL    HAARE WILLIAMS

    RON SMART    ERANA FENTON

    ROSS ROBERTSON    JOHN BAKER

    DRUM CITY    COLLISION

    RADIO WAATEA     OCEANIA PRODUCTIONS

    PATEA VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE    UNIT RAIDER LIMITED

    LIFE UNLIMITED PAPATOETOE        RICHARD CAMPBELL

    AIR NEW ZEALAND    ERICA MCGRATH

    JAY RAI    MORGAN WHĀNAU

    JAMES MOSS    MAUI RECORDS

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    WARRIOR RECORDS    ANASTASIS COFFEE

    NEIL FINN’S REEL TO REEL PLAYER    KAHI WHĀNAU

    JIMMY    MAMBO

    MON    B.G.

    HŌBY BŌBY    ZETU-ZETU

    SCHWIKO    BUDDY

 ATARAITI WARETINI         LEYTON GREENING

MIKA         TE WHĀNAU O TUI TEKA

LARA NORTHCROFT

Tearepa and Reikura would liketo dedicate this film to the memory of

"PAPA TED"ERUERA TE WHITI NIA

&“KORO NAPI”

REVEREND TE NAPI WAAKA

And the many who continue to light the pathway of Te Reo Māori in our world today.

"E RERE RĀ, E TAKU POI!"

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