Riwia Brown

Riwia Brown, ONZM, is a Māori playwright and scriptwriter who won the Best Screenplay award for her adaptation of Alan Duff's novel Once Were Warriors. She wrote and directed teleplays Roimata and Ngā Wahine (which have also been performed on stage). 

You can get big-headed . . . but you don’t get there on your own. You are part of a continuum. I owe a debt to the people who went before me like Jim Moriarty, Don Selwyn and Rangimoana, my brother. Riwia Brown in The Evening Post, 21 May 1994, page 12