Maaka Pohatu

Maaka Pohatu

Movies for Maaka Pohatu...

Title: Miles from Nowhere
Character: Waheed
Released: February 21, 2024
Type: TV
A young Kiwi-Muslim songwriter named Said is having a crisis. His fiancee left him, his career's non-existent, and his mum worries he's losing touch with his faith. Said risks it all when he befriends an SIS agent.
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Title: Our Flag Means Death
Character: John Bartholomew
Released: March 3, 2022
Type: TV
After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.
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Juniper
Title: Juniper
Character: Father Matu Williams
Released: August 26, 2021
Type: Movie
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
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Ani
Title: Ani
Released: September 7, 2019
Type: Movie
A young girl finds comfort in play and slowly reconnects with her distant father after her mother walks out on the family.
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Title: Wellington Paranormal
Character: Sergeant Maaka
Released: July 11, 2018
Type: TV
New Zealand's capital is a hotbed of supernatural activity... so Officers Minogue and O'Leary, who featured in the vampire documentary What We Do In The Shadows, take to the streets to investigate all manner of paranormal phenomena.
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Poi E: The Story of Our Song
Title: Poi E: The Story of Our Song
Character: Dalvanius Prime
Released: August 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi (Mt Zion) and starring Maaka Pohatu (The Modern Maori Quartet, Two Little Boys) the film tells the story of musician Dalvanius Prime and the origin of the song “Poi E”, a ground-breaking fusion of 1980s pop and traditional Māori music. “Poi E”, composed by Dalvanius and Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi and performed by the Patea Māori Club, remains the only song in Te Reo Māori to reach No 1 in the charts, over 30 years since its 1984 release.
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Possum
Title: Possum
Character: Dad
Released: July 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Possum is a tale of two young brothers who accompany their lumberjack father to a forest campsite. At odds with each other, their relationship meets the ultimate test when they venture into the woods, hunting a notorious possum named Scar.
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Two Little Boys
Title: Two Little Boys
Character: Gav
Released: September 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Nige runs over and accidentally kills a Scandinavian soccer star in an unfortunate incident involving a hot meat pie, a ginger cat and a policeman. He chucks the body in a nearby road works hole and runs to his best mate of fifteen years, Deano. But Deano's not the guy you should turn to in a crisis...