Tearepa Kahi
Christchurch-raised Tearepa Kahi began acting and playing saxophone as a teen, then spent two years in a theatre troupe run by Jim Moriarty. He went on to study history and Māori at Auckland University, and act — including a role in landmark te reo film The Māori Merchant of Venice (2002). Since then he has directed documentaries, award-winning shorts, and movie Mt Zion, starring Stan Walker — the most successful local cinema release of 2012. Kahi followed it with two feature-length music documentaries: acclaimed, Moa-nominated hit Poi E: The Story of Our Song, and 2019's Herbs - Songs of Freedom.
... Kahi serves it all up with obvious love, a quietly watchful pace and a sunbaked visual style. The result is a smart, finely-observed, heartfelt drama of good humour and decent tunes against an authentic local setting. Russell Baillie, reviewing movie Mt Zion in The NZ Herald, 6 February 2013
Herbs - Songs of Freedom
2019, Director, Executive Producer, Editor - Film
NZ Wars - Stories of Waitara
2019, Drama Writer - Web
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
2018, Creative Producer - Film
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016, Additional Writing - Film
Kairākau
2016, Writer - Television
Poi E: The Story of Our Song
2016, Director, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer - Film
Kairākau - First Episode
2016, Editor, Executive Producer, Writer - Television
Mt Zion
2012, Director, Writer, Editor - Film
Ebony Society
2010, Executive Producer - Short Film
Taua - War Party
2007, Director, Writer, Editor - Short Film
The Speaker
2005, Director, Writer, Producer - Short Film
Aroha - Irikura
2002, As: Paul - Television
The Hill
2002, As: Duane Heremia - Short Film
Mataku
2002, Kingi - Television
Shortland Street
1999, Conrad Townsend - Television