Makerita Urale
Makerita Urale grew up in her father's village in Samoa, before the family emigrated down under. She has gone on to bring a Pasifika voice to plays (the acclaimed Frangipani Perfume), museum exhibits, and documentaries. In 1995 Urale wrote Samoans-down under drama 'The Hibiscus' for TV's Tala Pasifika. Since then, the one time RNZ journalist has directed documentaries on Samoan tattooing (Savage Symbols), gangs (Gang Girls), and Kiwi activists (Qantas award-winner Children of the Revolution). In 2010 she joined Creative New Zealand, as an arts advisor on Pacific Arts.
Frangipani Perfume is an intoxicating blend of lush physical imagery and spare poetic language, as sensual and evocative as its title. Canadian writer Kathleen Oliver, in a review of Makerita Urale's play Frangipani Perfume, The Georgia Straight, 19 October 2006
The Gravy - Series One, Episode Four (Tigilau Ness)
2007, Creative Producer - Television
Children of the Revolution
2007, Director - Television
Gang Girl - Tarnz' Story
2005, Director - Television
Nesian Mystik - For the People
2005, Director, Writer - Television
Pasifika 2005
2005, Director, Producer - Television
The Living Room - Series Two (excerpts)
2004 - 2005, Director - Television
The Living Room - Series One, Episode Two
2002, Presenter - Television
Savage Symbols
2002, Producer, Director - Film
The Living Room - Series One (excerpts)
2002 - 2003, Subject - Television
Sub-Cranium Feeling
1998, Producer - Music video
Tala Pasifika
1996 - 2000, Writer - Television
Tala Pasifika - The Hibiscus
1995, Writer - Television