Showdown
In DevelopmentThree brothers walk home in the dark, full of borrowed cowboy courage. Something at the old corner has been waiting for them — and tonight, it follows them home.
Cultural advisor & kaumātua · Jonas Haare-Taoho
Six films. Two short, four feature. One question asked many ways: what do we carry across, and what does it cost?
Written by Richard Kerr-Bell — writer, director, and educator of Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri and Ngāti Kuri descent, with deep ancestral ties to the Hokianga. Te reo Māori runs through this work without translation or apology, and tikanga is developed in consultation with the appropriate cultural authorities on every project.
Short Films
Hongi
In DevelopmentA team from the other side of the world arrives in the far north. One Māori coach carries a photograph that says these two peoples were once the same — and a single day to prove it still holds.
Feature Films
Incarnation
Lead Title · In Development1859. A young Māori convert is taken from his people and sent across the world to Rome — living proof of one faith meeting another. The journey will ask him what a man loses when he becomes the bridge.
Just Football
In DevelopmentShe was offered everything she ever chased — a place in the men's game. Then she learns the game's oldest lie: it was never meant to be hers. Losing it is what sets her free.
Get Ted
In DevelopmentThe best footballer in the country is owned by a man who threatens everything he loves to keep him. So he runs — across the whole of Aotearoa — chasing the one thing no one can buy.
Cultural & music collaborator · Jonas Haare-Taoho
The Technical Area
In DevelopmentHe waited thirty years for this job — and they handed it to him designed to fail. Now an old coach must beat the temper his father left him, before it destroys the team and the one man who still believes in him.