KESKIDEE: AROHA
Keskidee is a black theatre group based in London. With the musicians Ras Messengers they toured the North Island in 1979. playing on rural maraes, in school halls, community centres and prisons. Māori elders, musicians, a Ratana minister, a unionist, gang leaders and youth workers showed them a New Zealand most New Zealanders chouse not to see.
Producers/directors MARTYN SANDERSON
MERATA MITA
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND
Still Chasin' Possums
There are few old professional possum hunters left in New Zealand. This programme was inspired by three characters who have been catching possums most of their lives.
Director GREG STITT
NATIONAL FILM UNIT
THE BRIDGE - A STORY OF MEN IN DISPUTE
The Mangere Bridge dispute was the long-est industrial stoppage in New Zealand history. Independent film-maker Gerd Pohlman's crews covered the strikers from the early winter months of 1978, when a quick settlement seemed possible, and even likely through the series of dashed hopes, internal wrangles and the final compromise which led to the end of the dispute in December, 1980. His film is the story not so much of an important indus-trial dispute as an inside look at the effect of the conflict on the workers, their unions and their families. (Final)
Executive Producer GEORGE ANDREWS
Producer/Director GERD POHLMAN
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND
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