Tainui Stephens
Tainui Stephens is a Kiwi screen taonga. Since joining Koha as a reporter in 1984, he has brought many Māori stories to television, and worked on everything from Marae to Māori Television's version of It's in the Bag. Among the notable documentaries he has directed are Māori Battalion doco March to Victory and award-winning show The New Zealand Wars. He was a producer on Vincent Ward film Rain of the Children.
...for Māori New Zealanders to use their language to express their thoughts and pedigree is not a matter of idealism, it's a way of making our lives better; it's a way of enshrining a better future for our kids. Tainui Stephens on the importance of Māori broadcasting, Onfilm, November 2003
RNZ Interview: Mai Time - Stacey Morrison & Tainui Stephens
Interview, 2022
Tainui Stephens: Foremost Māori broadcaster...
Interview, 2009
Whina
2022, Producer - Film
Making New Zealand - Broadcasting
2019, Subject - Television
NZ On Air 30th Birthday - Billy T James
2019, Subject - Web
NZ On Air 30th Birthday - The New Zealand Wars
2019, Director - The NZ Wars - Web
My Party Song
2018, Director, Writer, Producer - Television
My Party Song - First Episode
2017, Producer, Co-Director, Writer - Television
Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema
2016, Writer, Producer, Subject, Sound Recordist - Television
The Dead Lands
2014, Co-Producer - Film
It's in the Bag - Masterton (Series Five, Episode 12)
2013, Outside Broadcast Director, Narrator - Television
It's in the Bag - Ohakune (Series Five, Episode Three)
2013, Outside Broadcast Director - Television
The Prophets
2013, Director, Writer - Television
The Prophets - Episode Two
2013, Director - Television
The Prophets - First Episode
2013, Writer, Director - Television
It's in the Bag - Opunake (Series Four, Episode Six)
2012, Outside Broadcast Director, Narrator - Television
It's in the Bag - Waimamaku (Series Four, Episode Four)
2012, Outside Broadcast Director, Narrator - Television
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 7 - Taonga TV
2010, Director, Narrator - Television
It's in the Bag (Māori Television)
2011 - 2013, Director, Executive Producer - Television
Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore
2009, Subject - Film
The Strength of Water
2009, Associate Producer - Film
Let My Whakapapa Speak
2008, Director, Writer - Television
Rain of the Children
2008, Producer - Film
Mai Time - Final Episode
2007, Subject - Television
2006 Māori Television Anzac Day Coverage - Nā Rātou, Mō Tātou
2006, Commentator - Television
Hunting Aotearoa
2005 - 2007, Executive Producer - Television
River Queen
2005, Co-Producer - Film
Gladiator: The Norm Hewitt Story
2004, Te Kai Urungi - Television
Monte Cassino - 60 Years On
2004, Executive Producer - Television
The Last Laugh
2002, Te Kai Urungi - Television
The Hill
2002, Director - Short Film
The Sir Howard Morrison Story
2002, Kai Urungi - Television
Von Tempsky's Ghost
2002, Māori Advisor - Television
Captain's Log
2001, Kai Hautu - Television
Mai FM - It's Cool to Kōrero
1999, Presenter - Television
The Family
1999, Executive Producer - Television
The New Zealand Wars 1 - The War that Britain Lost (First Episode)
1998, Director - Television
The New Zealand Wars 2 - Kings and Empires (Episode Two)
1998, Director - Television
The New Zealand Wars 3 - The Invasion of the Waikato (Episode Three)
1998, Director - Television
The New Zealand Wars 4 - Taranaki Prophets (Episode Four)
1998, Director - Television
The New Zealand Wars 5 - The East Coast Wars (Episode Five)
1998, Director - Television
Mai Time - Bloopers 1998
1998, Executive Producer - Television
Rangatira: Merata Mita - Making Waves
1998, Executive Producer - Television
The New Zealand Wars
1998, Director - Television
Rangatira: Pita Sharples
1997, Narrator - Television
Mai Time - Hirini Melbourne interview (excerpt)
1997, Producer - Television
Icon in B Minor
1996, Director, Producer - Television
Mai Time
1994 - 2000, Producer, Executive Producer - Television
Marae - John O'Shea on Tangata Whenua
1993, Executive Producer - Television
Marae
1992 - 1997, Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Presenter, Reporter - Television
Māori Battalion - March to Victory
1990, Director, Writer, Producer - Television
When the Haka Became Boogie
1990, Director, Producer, Producer - Television
When the Haka Became Boogie - The Musos (Episode Four)
1990, Producer - Television
When the Haka Became Boogie - The Showbands (Episode Two)
1990, Director, Producer - Television
When the Haka Became Boogie - The Singers (Episode Five)
1990, Director, Producer - Television
Koha - 10 Years of Koha (Final)
1989, Director, Writer - Television
Rere Ki Uta, Rere Ki Tai (The Journey)
1988, Director, Writer - Short Film
Waka Huia - Hirini Melbourne & Te Puka a Maui
1987, Studio Director - Television
Waka Huia - First Episode
1987, Studio Director - Television
Koha - Raupatu, The Loss of Land
1984, Reporter - Television
Weekend
1986 , Director - Television
Koha
1984 - 1988, Research, Director, Producer, Writer - Television
Kaleidoscope
1985, Director, Reporter - Television