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 (
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.
The Australasian streaming service Beamafilm boasts more than 1000 local and independent international movies and documentaries.
Beamafilm is a streaming service, available at many public and university libraries throughout New Zealand, that allows free access to a catalogue of more than 1000 movies and a selection of TV series for those who possess a library card. Billed as Australasia’s “most innovative streaming platform”, it claims to be committed to “championing local and independent voices” and offering content that “tackles humanity s toughest questions and enlightens audiences with enduring optimism”. After scanning through the line-up of documentaries and features available on demand,
Stuff has come up with this list of six titles we believe are well worth checking out – some of them unavailable to watch elsewhere.