Remembering Ramai

A pioneer of New Zealand cinema, Ramai Hayward is credited as this country’s first Māori filmmaker, camerawoman, scriptwriter and screen star. At Wairoa Māori Film Festival 2005 she received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award; the next year she was made a Member of the NZ Order of Merit. Hayward and husband Rudall (Rewi’s Last Stand) were the first couple of early NZ filmmaking. Ramai Haward passed away in July 2014. This Spotlight collection remembers Hayward via her NZ On Screen biography and Koha specials on her life (filmed when she was 73) and Māori in NZ film. Moe mai e te rangatira, moe mai.