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- Title
- Mercury Lane, Series One, Episode Seven
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This episode of arts show Mercury Lane celebrates local legends of stage and screen. First, reporter Marcus Lush explores the world of children’s musical theatre with eclectic Auckland troupe The Aunties. Then there's a visit to filmmaking couple Merata Mita and Geoff Murphy at home in the Coromandel. Mita recalls her documentaries Patu and Hotere, and shares her experience being an indigenous female director; while Murphy shares insights into his Blerta and Goodbye Pork Pie days, and the cou...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2001
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/mercury-lane-series-one-episode-seven-2001
- Related subjects
- 2001 / 2000s / noughties / the aunties / madame salami / grey lynn primary school / aunties / theatre / musical theatre / children / children's theatre / children's entertainment / preformers / musicians / actors / costumes / magic / magic show / rachel caternach / corporate strategist / ralph hotere / filmmaking / filmmakers / merata mita / auntie uncle / dave neumegen / arif usmani / lynn usmani / stop motion animation / stop motion / arts / new zealand film industry / film industry / nz film industry / blerta / coromandel / goodbye pork pie / pork pie / patu / protest film / protest / utu / directors / art / artwork / artists / elizabeth smither / poet / poetry / writer / dentist / dentistry / takapuna dental / bruno lawrence / blerta - the return journey / 1970s / 1980s / seventies / eighties
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