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Acclaimed Northland actress Rena Owen stars as Dame Whina Cooper
19 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Northland actress Rena Owen stars as e Whaea o Te Motu, or the Mother of the Nation, Dame Whina Cooper in the upcoming movie Whina
Northland actress Rena Owen stars as e Whaea o Te Motu, or the Mother of the Nation, Dame Whina Cooper in the upcoming movie Whina
Reporter for the Northern Advocate jodi.bryant@nzme.co.nz
An acclaimed Northland actress is starring in a movie playing another well-known Northlander and one of New Zealand s most revered leaders.
Rena Owen will play Māori activist Dame Whina Cooper in New Zealand drama feature film Whina, set for release next year.
Vice Distribution Announces Spring Slate With More Than 250 Hours of New Content - Global Bulletin
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In today’s Global Bulletin, Vice Distribution announces its spring slate; Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson doc gets theatrical launch dates ahead of its Amazon Prime Video premiere; Channel 4 commissions COVID lockdown-inspired docu-series “Sex Odyssey” with Alice Levine; South African streamer Showmax commissions a local version of “Temptation Island” and Fremantle promotes several execs in EMEA.
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Following its launch in summer 2020,
Vice Distribution has announced its first slate of spring programming featuring 250 hours of new non-scripted programming from across
Nude Tuesday
The marriage-in-crisis comedy comes from writer and lead actress Jackie van Beek and director Armağan Ballantyne.
Jemaine Clement is set to bare all as a sex guru in New Zealand marriage-in-crisis comedy
Nude Tuesday.
The film heading to the European Film Market with Cornerstone comes from Clement s fellow Kiwi and
What We Do in the Shadows star, writer and lead actress Jackie van Beek (
The Breaker Upperers) and director Armağan Ballantyne (
The Strength of Water) and was shot entirely in New Zealand during the pandemic, with post-production underway in Australia.
Performed by the cast entirely in gibberish and described by the filmmakers as a nudist romp,
Outbreak and
Contagion last year, but no one really took this whole pandemic thing serious until mid-to-late March when Tom Hanks announced he and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for COVID-19 while he was in Australia filming an Elvis Presley biopic.
Suddenly, people were saying,
“Holy S this stuff is real…and serious!”
At about the same time, folks around the globe were sent home to work, wherever and however.
BAM! studios went dark, borders were closed.
With the exception of reality and late-night TV, entertainment production was in a deep freeze … paralyzed.
Box office revenues sunk to zero, the film supply got shifted, theaters closed.