Witi Ihimaera: Roimata Toroa

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Witi Ihimaera: Roimata Toroa

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This documentary accompanies author Witi Ihimaera on a journey with his "townie" daughters to his marae in Waituhi on the East Coast, ahead of the publication of third novel The Matriarch. Ihimaera describes his writing as a type of "tangi to a people and to a life" he experienced growing up around Waituhi in the 1950s — a way of life symbolised by the tears of the toroa (albatross) said to be held deep in greenstone. Jim Moriarty is among those reading from Ihimaera's works. The film is dire...

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Video

Date created

1987

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/witi-ihimaera-roimata-toroa-1987

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tangi / pounamu poumanu / new net goes fishing / whanau / the matriarch / poverty bay / east coast / pounamu / greenstone / waituhi marae / bus / rongopai / ringatu / te kooti / family / maoritanga / waipawa / hockey / shearing / fishing / sea-horse / reef / wharekai / tin shed / wi pere / lagonda / rongopai marae / marae

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