Indigenous Media
Māori Television is establishing important links with indigenous broadcasters around the world. This week ten Canadian Aboriginal producers visited Māori Television as part of a National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) Aboriginal Cultural Trade Initiative to Aotearoa.

The NSI initiative is an ambitious two-phase training program designed to help Canadian Aboriginal producers advance their projects as co-productions with producers in Aotearoa and Australia.

One of producers, Dennis Jackson (Cree tribe) from Dark Thunder Productions Inc in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, produced a children’s animation feature called Christmas In Wapos Bay. Made in the Cree language with English subtitles, this programme will feature on Māori Television this Saturday at 3.00 pm (see below for more information).

Jackson and the group will be in Auckland until April 22 and Wellington April 23 and 24 before departing for Sydney.

Programmes Coming Up...

Ngā Hau Tipua – Mondays at 7.00 pm
Award winning sports presenter, Julian Wilcox, presents the latest sports action and news on
Māori Television’s sports show Ngā Hau Tipua.
Broadcast in Māori and English, local and international sports codes are analysed each week by Wilcox and a group of panellists from a Māori perspective.

In a sports mad nation like Aotearoa, Wilcox says there is plenty of scope for Ngā Hau Tipua to explore and examine everything from rugby and soccer, to Formula One racing and basketball.

Wilcox won the 2003 Māori Sports Broadcaster of the Year Award at the Māori Sports Award for best Māori radio sports commentaries in the Māori language. He is joined by former Te Karere and TV3 Sports reporter, Bailey Mackey, who is Executive Producer for Ngā Hau Tipua. An avid sports fan, Mackey says the show aims to be inclusive as well
as entertaining.

Koi – Tuesdays at 5.00 pm

The simple things in life take on a whole new meaning with funky Māori language youth show, Koi. Everything from scary hand germs to volcanoes are presented by the presenters of Koi through singing, dancing, acting, performing and 100% reo Māori.

The lead presenter of Koi is 15 year old TV veteran Tūpoutahi Winitana, Well known for his role in the mainstream children’s Māori language programme Tikitiki, Tūpoutahi also presented the Māori magazine sports programme Tu Te Puehu. Tupoutahi is joined by Kereti Rautangata, 20, Wikitoria Rakuraku, 25 and 13-year-old newcomer Kerera Haitana.

Kai Ora – Fridays at 6.30 pm

Anne Thorp cooks lunch for a girlfriend on the run, Moana Maniapoto, this week on Kai Ora. Filmed alternately between her urban whare and Pakiri coastal retreat, Kai Ora features fantastic food, fabulous guests and wonderful music. Born in Whakatane and raised in Gisborne, Anne is of
Ngāti Awa and Ngai Te Rangi descent. Anne still enjoys the food she was brought up with— such as watercress and fish heads. However, her style has developed to combine the traditional with fresh European/Asian influences. Anne’s renowned talent for preparing healthy cuisine using New Zealand’s freshest produce from both the land and sea forms the basis of the ‘Kai Ora’ series.

Kai Ora - a refreshing vision of haute cuisine, Māori style.

Christmas at Wapos Bay –
Saturday 24 April 2004 at 3.00 pm

Travel to the Great North, the Arctic, to experience Christmas at its simple best, away from the quest for material trappings to the traditional ways of family working and celebrating together. Three Indian children are visiting their grandfather at his trapline cabin where he follows the traditional ways of hunting, fishing and trapping. Food is a blessing and a gift. In this heart warming, classic story, the three children venture out to find food for their upcoming family Christmas gathering. They meet several dangers and challenges in the wild, but emerge wiser and more respectful of their environment, elders and tradition. Elementary level children will tune into the many lessons this adventure has to share.

Mauri – Sunday 25 April 2005 at 9.30 pm

Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as renewing family ties. He is seeking an identity and a permanent place to call home yet desperately hiding a secret from his past. Oddly enough there is one person with whom he finds peace of mind. She is an old woman known as Kara and a special relationship relationship develops between Rewi, Kara and her great granddaughter Awatea.”

Starring Anzac Wallace, the late Eva Rickard, James Heyward and Rangimarie Delamere, Mauri was written and directed by Merata Mita and co-produced with Geoff Murphy.

”Mauri is an emotionally charged piece of cinema. Mita successfully infuses the notion of spirituality that comes from both the people of the land and the land itself, without slipping into vague mumbo- jumbo. The term Mauri translates roughly to ‘life force’. Mauri has a mauri of its own” - (“Mauri Kindles Spark”, Auckland Star, September 28, 1989)

Getting to Air

Our daily schedule is:

Tuning in to Māori Television

Viewers can tune in to Māori Television in five ways:

To receive Māori Television via the UHF frequency, viewers need to have a UHF aerial and be within the coverage area.

Via Satellite

If viewers are not within our UHF coverage area, they can access Māori Television via satellite by purchasing a satellite dish and receiver from their local television aerial installation service.

SKY Digital subscribers will find Māori Television on Channel 33 of their SKY remotes. They can tune in to Channel 33 now to catch highlights of programmes on Māori Television.

SKY UHF subscribers will find Māori Television on button 6 of their SKY remotes.

Via Saturn TV
If you receive Saturn TV, you can tune into Māori Television through channel button 33. Saturn Customers please: leave your decoders switched on to be able to receive this channel.

For More Information

Check our website www.maoritelevision.com or for guidance on how to tune-in call 0800 MA TATOU ( 0800 62 82868 )

Issue 8, 21 April 2004