Te Hira Henderson
Director, Producer
Te Hira Henderson’s commitment to preserving Māori language and culture is evident from a television career that spans several decades. Henderson's journey offers a remarkable window into the evolution of Māori media representation, and the broader screen industry in Aotearoa. Among the shows he is proudest of is interviewing many key Māori figures for TV series Waka Hui, Kuia and Koroua.
Waka Hui enabled us to record the oral history of the Māori nation of this country . . . the native generation that we recorded were the last to speak ‘taketake’ [the ancient language]. For me, that was the most important thing, because that language and the way they built and carried an oral history is now extinct. Te Hira Henderson
