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The night before his granddaughter's birthday, a grandfather (Anzac Wallace) has a "dream".  He then proceeds with the assistance of his wife (Erihapeti Ngata) and wider community, to analyse the dream with the outcome being a win on the horses. The first film as director for actor/writer Rawiri Paratene; the screenplay was by Patricia Grace from her own short story, The Dream. Filmed in Te Reo and English. Look out for a young Temuera Morrison.

Background

A Series Perspective by Maraea Rakuraku 28.09.2008

E tipu, e rea, mō ngā rā o tō ao; ko to ringaringa ki ngā rākau a te Pākehā hei oranga mō tō tinana;
ko tō ngākau ki ngā taonga o ō tïpuna hei tikitiki mō tō māhunga.
Ko tō wairua ki tō Atua, nāna nei ngā mea ...

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Credits (10)

 Rawiri Paratene
 Larry Parr
 Patricia Grace

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 Lynne Lambert

Lynne Lambert

Cool movie, we need heaps more of these kind of movies in te reo maori. Short stories that our kids can relate to and put out on DVD's so we can buy them and play them at home for our family nights in!! There have to be a lot of really funny ones so the kids will want to play them over and over again. This was great, lovely to see these actors from mai raano. AWesome, thanks for posting.

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 Te Manuka Film Trust

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