Oscar Race: New Zealand Picks ‘The Dead Lands’ for Foreign-Language Race SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 | 07:49PM PT Shalini Dore New Zealand has selected Maori-language “The Dead Lands” as its entry in the Oscar foreign-language race. Toa Fraser’s film centers around a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, who must avenge his...
Rena Owen follows her heart home by Donna Fleming New Zealand Woman's Weekly, December 7, 2011 Rena Owen has the world at her feet. The acclaimed Kiwi actress has just won a major acting award, taken on the most challenging role of her career and is excited about...
Writer Profile: Rena Owen by Rena Owen The New Zealand Writers Guild, January 1, 2010 Kia ora koutou. My name is Maria Makarena Owen, more commonly known as Rena. Born and bred in rural Northland, my tribe is Ngati Hine/Ngati Pakeha. Although I am best known as an...
The way we were by Kim Knight Sunday Star Times, August 30, 2009 IT'S one of our most famous plays, written by our most famous playwright, but it has never been professionally staged in our biggest city.Now, nearly half a century after Bruce Mason penned The Pohutukawa Tree,...
Rena Owen returns to rural roots Vincent Ward's latest film, Rain Of The Children, required Rena Owen to return to her rural roots. It wasn't difficult. by Shane Gilchrist Otago Daily Times, September 13, 2008 Vincent Ward's latest film, Rain Of The Children, required Rena Owen to return...
An interview with Rena Owen, the star of Once Were Warriors by Tobe A. Roberts IV CINEMA WITHOUT BORDERS, June 19, 2007 I had the pleasure of first viewing Rena’s powerful film, “Once Were Warriors”, at the famous Angelika theatre in the SoHo area of New York City....
Rena's happy in Hollywood FROM TUNA TO TINSEL: Rena Owen is enjoying being back home in Moerewa. by Helen Castles Fairfax New Zealand Limited, May 8, 2007 The Northern News caught up with Hollywood star, Rena Owen while she was visiting family in Moerewa last week. She may be a...
Fijian family's tale told through 'Eyes' of a camera by Wayne Harada HonoluluAdvertiser.com, March 11, 2005 Before making his first feature film, Vilsoni "Vili" Hereniko met a movie-maker from India who gave him the best advice possible:Look to your past, retrace your life, then share that story."I was...
