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Kai Pūrākau - The Storyteller
Television (Full Length) – 1987
Gaylene Preston's documentary on writer Keri Hulme — filmed two years after Hulme shot to global fame thanks to her Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People — is both a poetic travelogue of Ōkārito (the township she lived in for 40 years), and a sampler-box of musings on Hulme's writing process, whitebait fishing, the supernatural, and the 1200 pages of notes for her next novel, the elusive Bait. Leon Narbey's camerawork is aptly alert to the magical qualities of the coast, from the resident kōtuku to the surf and birdsong peppering Hulme’s crib. The documentary was made for an English TV series about women writers.
I can think of several of my characters I wouldn’t like to meet walking down the street.– Keri Hulme
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
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Thames Television
Acknowledgements
A production of Thames Television in association with Television New Zealand
Presented with thanks to the New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata
Music
Whakatauki, haka and song performed by Keri Kaa
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