Loading Docs 2020 - Te Wao Nui

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Because we [the filmmakers] were present there, we are a part of it. We are not just observers; the way we conduct ourselves is a part of the outcome.
– Director Ngāriki Ngatae explains the process of making Te Wao Nui, Stuff, 15 September 2020

I want to see our indigenous people; I want to see our beauty on screen. We see so much trauma on screen, we need to see the light.
– Te Wao Nui director Ngāriki Ngatae, Stuff website, 15 September 2020

I am nature, nature is me / I am the ocean, the ocean is me /I am the kauri, the kauri is me...
– Kaumatua Tohe Ashby explains an underlying Māori environmental philosophy