Congratulations to our members who will receive funding from NZ On Air and Te Māngai Pāho for their Māori language projects.
Great Southern Television receives up to $1,537,537 for The Casketeers: Life and Death Around the World, 6 x 44 mins, for TVNZ 1.
This six-part series follows Kaiora and Francis Tipene as they discover the deeply held traditions and rituals of death and dying from different cultures around the world.
Faultline Films receives up to $669,521 for The Drawing Board S2, 8 x 25 mins, for Whakaata Māori.
The Drawing Board returns for a second season showcasing Māori-led and Māori-designed architectural projects across the motu – fronted by Derek Kawiti (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou), Professor of Architecture at Victoria University.
Black Iris (Kathleen Mantel and Kay Ellmers) receives up to $539,660 for Motuhaketanga, 2 x 52 mins, for Whakaata Māori.
This two-part documentary special will follow three wāhine Māori as they prepare to leave prison, the challenges they face and their pathway to creating their own motuhaketanga or self-determination.
The successful applicants for the fifth co-funding round comprise six bilingual and fluent te reo Māori projects receiving in total up to $6,623,102. The fund sought high-quality, Scripted and Non-fiction content that is original and uses a range of levels of te reo Māori to engage and inform audiences across a wide range of platforms.
Image: Francis and Kaiora Tipene of The Casketeers