Watch Troy Kingi s Black Sea Golden Ladder – The Visual Album Chris Cudby / Tuesday 27th July, 2021 12:33PM
Troy Kingi (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) has treated fans to an hour-long cinematic creation accompanying his latest album
Black Sea Golden Ladder the fifth in the 2020 Taite Music Prize winning songwriter and actor s
10 10 10 series of genre-spanning long players. Created in collaboration with Lyttelton icon
Delaney Davidson, Kingi stated his folk-tinted record is
the most personal of all my albums – the first one I feel that is truly about me . The film showcases all-new video works created for each song from the record by directors
TVNZ
A robbery and a drug deal gone wrong sets off a chain of events in local drama Vegas.
Actor Eds Eramiha hopes the message conveyed in the new local drama series
Vegas is one that resonates with viewers. “I find that, really, this is about hope,” says the actor who has appeared in
The Dead Lands and The Legend Of Baron To’a. “There is hope that we can get out of these struggles of drugs, the whole game and what it’s all about.”
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In the drama Vegas, Eds Eramiha plays Kingi Duncan, a gang leader who is guiding his people away from a life of drugs.
TVNZ
A robbery and a drug deal gone wrong sets off a chain of events in local drama Vegas.
REVIEW: Waitoki – the town where things get steamy. That’s the barely fictionalised backdrop for TVNZ’s latest Kiwi drama
Vegas (which debuts on TVNZ2 tonight, Monday, at 8.30pm). Filmed entirely in Rotorua, the $6.4m budgeted, six-part series is based on Ray Berard’s 2015 novel
Inside the Black Horse. A potent cocktail of a tale involving debts, drugs, gangs and two disparate brothers, it revolves around the build up to and fallout from the life-changing events of a single night. It was supposed to be the evening when Te Toki ended their reliance on meth sales to find their activities. When one last deal would give them enough money would allow them to buy back some of their ancestral land and give themselves “a place to stand”. Where newly appointed leader Kingi (Eds Eramīha) could prove his mana to the doubters, especially those who believe their former head Waka (
Television series Vegas, filmed in Rotorua, set to hit New Zealand screens
7 Apr, 2021 08:38 PM
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Vegas was filmed in Rotorua.
For several months Rotorua locals who may have noticed film crews going about their work throughout town now have a date to look forward to seeing the fruits of that labour.
The television series Vegas will launch on TVNZ 2 at 8.30pm on April 19.
In the new thriller-action series, a drug deal gone wrong on a blood-stained night sets off a chain of events for dangerous factions and a local business owner.
The series was filmed in Rotorua and stars an array of talented wāhine and tāne, including some of Rotorua s own top creative talent.