The Film: Mo Te Iwi - Carving For The People

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A feature-length film about Whakairo and the life of one of the last 'Konae Aronui' carvers, trained in the 1950s, to carve wharenui. - In 2007, Sir Hirini Moko Mead asked if our whānau could write a book about our father, Rangi Hetet, and his life as a carver. Sir Hirini felt it important to record a social history of that time and those men who often travelled to iwi and lived with them while the wharenui were carved. Poised between the time of the ancient tohunga and the modern carver, the Māori carvers of the early to mid 1900s formed the bridge between two very different worlds.We start ...

Read More ed to interview Dad for a book but quickly realised that making a film would better capture and convey the stories. Thankfully, Dad (who is a very reserved person) agreed based on our urging that once he is no longer with us the stories will be gone forever!We hope you'll join us to complete the film 'Mo Te Iwi: Carving for The P

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