Ngā Puna - The Visitation

Ah, reincarnation! You know I don’t like listening to such stuff. Spirits, spells, such talk makes me sick. I think I’m back listening to your father … All that Māori spirit stuff, tapu this and Hawaiki that. What did it all add up to, huh? Nothing from nothing. That’s what. Superstitious nothing.

– Joseph’s mother (Joy Watson) dismisses Māori spirituality, revealing her racism and hostility

If Dad was here, everything would be different. You wouldn’t dare talk about her like you do.

– Joseph (Turei Reedy) defends Moana (Sela Brown) and confronts his mother about having driven his father away

I feel like such a frump. I’m ugly, ugly! Everything goes wrong because I’m ugly.

– Moana (Sela Brown) expresses vulnerability and fear as she goes into labour

Who are you? You’re not just a six-year-old boy. I know that ... Who are you? ... What do you want?

– Joseph (Turei Reedy) confronts the spirit after it possesses a young boy

The Māori equivalent of About Face was E Tipu E Rea (1989), a breakthrough series of short films as a showcase for Māori directors, producers, and actors, including Riwia Brown, Rena Owen, Rawiri Paratene, Larry Parr, Joanna Paul, Don Selwyn, and Lee Tamahori. Selwyn produced a follow-up series, Nga Puna, in 1993.

– Roger Horrocks, 'Film-making in New Zealand' (essay), 2011, page 24