Rowley Habib (Rore Hapipi)
Writer [Ngāti Tūwharetoa]
Rowley Habib — also known as Rore Hapipi — was one of the first writers to bring a genuinely Māori perspective to New Zealand stage and screen. His play Death of the Land is seen as a landmark in the development of Māori theatre. In 1983 Habib won a Feltex Award for land rights drama The Protestors, part of a trio of pioneering one-off plays for television. Habib passed away on 3 April 2016.
I had the problem that nobody wanted to touch Māori theatre with a ten-foot pole. A hundred-foot pole really. Rowley Habib, recalling the early days of Māori theatre
In Memoriam 2016
2016, Subject - Television
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 2 - The Whole World's Watching
2010, Subject - Television
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 7 - Taonga TV
2010, Subject - Television
Open House
1986, Writer - Television
Loose Enz - The Protesters
1982, Writer - Television
The Gathering
1979, Writer - Television
Death of the Land
1978, Writer - Television
Two Rivers Meet / Te Tutakinga O Nga Awa E Rua
1977, Narrator, Compiler - Short Film
Review - Hone Tuwhare
1975, Subject - Television
Island of Spirits
1973, Poetry Readings - Television