Projects

The Mooncake and the Kūmara

Feature Film

Genre: Drama

In a dirty and alienating 1929 New Zealand a sensitive kōtiro Māori and an introverted young Chinese migrant defy society and let their forbidden love grow in a moving, depression era love story.

Based on the stageplay by Mei Lin Hansen.

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Development, FilmKiel McNaughton
Waru

Feature FIlm

Genre: Drama

8 x 10 minute sequences shot by eight individual female Māori filmmakers combine to form a narrative that weaves around the death of a young boy in a Māori community.

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Out NowKiel McNaughton
Vai

Feature Film

Genre: Drama

Vai is a portmanteau feature film made by nine female Pacific filmmakers, filmed in seven different Pacific countries: Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kuki Airani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue and Aotearoa (New Zealand).

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Out NowKiel McNaughton