Robin Scholes is one of New Zealand’s most experienced and respected screen producers. Her credits range from feature films: Once Were Warriors, Mahana, Mr Pip to television content: Magic Kiwis, Black Sands, The New Legends of Monkey and documentaries such as Colin McCahon: I Am.
Robin’s latest film is The Convert, directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Guy Pearce about a preacher with a violent past who arrives at a British settlement in 1830s New Zealand and finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Māori tribes. Te Ao Māori and Tikanga Māori are key to the project - find out how Robin and her team approached The Convert as an authentic cultural partnership.