Maori Television Highlights

Maori Television Highlights
Week 29: Sunday July 12 – Saturday July 18 2009

FOX MEMORIAL SHIELD – Sunday July 12 at 2.00 PM and Saturday July 18 at 2.00 PM
Auckland’s premier rugby league club teams have been competing for the Fox Memorial Shield since 1910. Tune in for delayed coverage each week as the battle for the title continues. Sunday: Marist v Papakura, Saturday: East Coast Bays v Mt Albert.

TE HAUKAINGA – Sunday July 12 at 5.00 PM
Season premiere! A look at the daily lives of rural Maori, Part One of a two-part story. Today: Playing a game of golf in te reo does not come naturally to many, but is par for the course for close friends Tautohe Kupenga, Reverend Nehe Dewes, Mopey and Jimmy Devery.

THE NEW MIGRATION – Sunday July 12 at 8.00 PM
Season premiere! Young Maori are redefining their idea of success, as they leave full and busy lives in the city, and move to their iwi and hapu roots. These are not people with no experience of te ao Maori, but the risk is still high. Will the change be everything they hoped? Tonight: From Ranana to Rotorua. Shane Heremaia is back home in Rotorua as General Manager for Te Kotahitanga o Te Arawa Trust.

INDIGENOUS INSIGHT – Sunday July 12 at 8.30 PM
Studio-based weekly news programme that introduces the week’s best indigenous news and current affairs stories from around the indigenous world. Tonight: How issues like global pandemic are affecting indigenous communities. Also the story of a reindeer herder in Norway; a profile on Dawu, a fishing port in Eastern Taiwan; and the battle of Tuvalu against a rising tide.

LOOK AT ME (SUNDAY FEATURE) – Sunday July 12 at 9.00 PM
Jean-Pierre Bacri plays Etienne, a famous novelist who is monstrously self-centred and indifferent to the unhappiness of his daughter, Lolita. A reflection on the corrupting power of fame.

DANCES OF LIFE (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) – Tuesday July 14 at 8.30 PM
For nearly 50,000 years, dance and song have been an expression of Pacific Islanders’ origins, journeys and struggles. This documentary explores the dance stories of New Zealand, American Samoa, Guam, New Caledonia and Palau.

SIR GRAHAM LATIMER: NATION MAKER (NZ DOCO) – Wednesday July 15 at 8.30 PM
Sir Graham Latimer was a farm boy from the North who went on to spearhead landmark court battles with the Crown. His work changed forever the treatment of Maori under the Treaty of Waitangi.

E TU KAHIKATEA – Wednesday July 15 at 9.30 PM
Season premiere! A series on Maori leaders who have challenged, outraged and inspired their people, and the nation. Tonight: The first Maori graduate from Elam School of Fine Arts, Arnold Wilson, admits being thrown in the river by an aunty offended by his work.

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