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. Later he studied history and Māori at Auckland University, and acted in landmark te reo film The Māori Merchant of Venice (2002). After directing several award-winning short films he made Mt. Zion, the most successful Kiwi movie of 2012. Next came two big screen music documentaries: Moa-nominated hit Poi E: The Story of Our Song, and 2019's Herbs - Songs of Freedom. In 2022 Muru — his dramatisation of the 2007 Tūhoe police raids — was chosen to open the NZ International Film Festival.
...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 reviews movie Mt. Zion in The NZ Herald, 6 February 2013
Muru
2022, Director, Writer, Executive Producer - Film
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, Editor, Executive Producer - Television
Poi E: The Story of Our Song
2016, Director, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer - Film
Kairākau - First Episode
2016, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer - 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, As: Kingi - Television
Shortland Street
1999, As: Conrad Townsend - Television