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Issue 90, 28 November 2005
THE HUMAN FACE OF THE PACIFIC: FIFTY YEAR
A stunning documentary series that examines archival issues across a variety of Pacific territories screens on THE HUMAN FACE OF THE PACIFIC, on Māori Television from Thursday December 1 at 8.30 PM. This powerful six-parter was produced in 1983 in association with Film Australia and multi-award winning producer Dennis O’Rourke. The series gives a wide-ranging view of Pacific society from the ground level and exposes the stark differences in lifestyles, from subsistence to urban. The people of the Bikini Atoll were removed from their homelands in 1964 as a result of American testing of nuclear bombs in the Pacific. After WWII when the US took over administrative authority of the 30-odd islands, the atoll was earmarked as the preferred site for the development and testing of nuclear bombs. The result was forced evacuation of thousands of islanders to outlying islands where in 1983 – the year of the documentary – refugees were still praying and waiting to return to their homeland. March 1 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of the infamous ‘Bravo’ shot – or the largest US nuclear test in history – that took place on Bikini Atoll. Equal to the force of nearly 1000 Hiroshima bombs, the blast created a four-mile fire ball that vaporized the entire test island and parts of two others. Said Marshall Islands senator Tomaki Juda on the anniversary: “Only one good thing resulted from Bravo. It was so awful and frightening that it set off a huge international debate that eventually led to the US moratorium on atmospheric nuclear testing. Fifty years have gone by, but Bravo is still with us. We wait and we wait, not knowing when we can return home.” Gritty and unsettling, the Marshall Islands documentary is followed by five other documentaries in the series including A Place of Power in French Polynesia (Thurs Dec 8 at 8.30 PM), New Caledonia – A Land In Search of Itself (Thurs Dec 15 at 8.30 PM), Fiji – Legacies of Empire (Thurs Dec 22 at 8.30 PM), Samoa – I Can Get Another Wife But I Can’t Get Any Parents (Thurs Dec 29 at 8.30 PM) and ATOLL – Life in Kiribati (Thurs Jan 5 at 8.30 PM). THE HUMAN FACE OF THE PACIFIC screens on Māori Television every Thursday at 8.30 PM.
AN ONEONEROA KIRIHIMETE ON MĀORI TELEVISION
Māori Television’s 100 per cent Aotearoa-made comedy B & B comes to a cheerful Yuletide conclusion tonight, Monday November 28 at 9.30 PM. Hori Ahipene and Te Radar, aka Beverley and Bevan Best, open up their dream homestay in the fictional New Zealand town of Oneoneroa for one last time to celebrate Christmas – with all the trappings. In the season finale, the Bests host entertainer Pio Terei and NZ Idol judge Frankie Stevens for a sensational send-off. Throughout the six-part series, many notable New Zealanders have taken their cues in the topical show including Keisha Castle-Hughes, Norm Hewitt, Georgina Beyer, Dr Pita Sharples, Mātai Smith, Parekura Horomia, Nik Carlson and more. As the show is filmed before a live studio audience a day in advance of screening, anything and everything goes. Livingstone Productions co-producer / director Greg Mayor says the series has been a sweet success: “There is absolutely no doubt at all that B & B comes from Aotearoa. It cannot have come from any place on the planet. It’s us inside and out and I am enormously proud of the show.” Join the Bests for one last pre-Christmas giggle with the season finale of B & B this Monday November 28 at 9.30 PM! |
Māori Television celebrates Koroneihana 2005 through the screening of four specially-commissioned documentaries, starting Wednesday November 30 at 9.30 PM.
KIMIORA (Wednesday November 30 at 9.30 PM) is produced by Maui Productions and focuses on one of the most crucial aspects involved in this significant Māori cultural and sporting event – the preparation of kai! As the multitudes flock to Turangawaewae Marae in Ngāruawahia each year to partake in the festivities, this one-hour reo Māori documentary looks at the Coronation through the unique perspective of the ringawera (workers), taking a closer look at their role and importance during the hui.
Then, Māori Television continues with the screening of OHAU on Wednesday December 7 at 9.30 PM. Produced by Maui Productions and Cardno Television Production Services, this one-hour reo Māori documentary examines the significance and importance of Koroneihana to iwi outside of Tainui through the experience of the Ohau roopu.
Then, Māori Television concludes its four-week tribute to Koroneihana with the screening of NGĀ POU O ROTO on Wednesday December 21 at 8.30 PM. Presented by two young Tainui representatives – broadcaster Pumi Tumai and Te Kura o Rākaumangamanga teacher Matehaere Clarke – the documentary is virtually entirely in reo Māori and offers the rangatahi perspective.
Māori Television marks World Aids Day this week (Thursday December 1) with a moving documentary about a 24-year-old Tahitian university graduate who goes public when she discovers she has AIDS. MAIRE captures the inspirational story of Tahitian Maire Bopp Dupont shortly after she was first diagnosed as being HIV positive in 1998.
Sam Moa faces his toughest test as the Tigers Jersey Flegg team head into a sudden death semi-final against table topping St George Dragons. The build-up to Ngā Hau e Whā, a tournament that sees the best Māori players in Sydney facing off, begins with the first game between North Sydney Māori and Wests. 
In the series final to this gritty First Nations drama, the mystery of the skeleton is revealed and spirits are laid to rest after Dillon learns Candy's horrible secret. 
Māori Television launches a four-part series from the most remote part of Norway in the lead-up to Christmas 2005. Concluding on Christmas Day, this family series introduces nine-year-old Maina Sofie and her family in the winter wonderland of a Northern Hemisphere Christmas. 
