Koha - 10 Years of Koha (Final)

Weekly magazine style series Koha debuted in 1980, providing a primetime insight into te ao Māori and becoming a training ground for Māori visual storytellers. Presented by Robin Kora, this special marks Koha's final programme, and celebrates a decade of material. Moving through the years, the many excerpts include a retelling of the Maui legend, a dramatisation of a Patricia Grace story, the 1984 Te Māori exhibition opening in New York and a look at the dire rate of smoking amongst Māori wahine. Interviews and tributes include Hone Kaa, Ranginui Walker, and proud Koha producer Ernie Leonard.

It's been a thoughtful study, it's been very sensitive about people. It's been sensitive about their feelings, it's been sensitive about their culture. It's explained it in a manner that even those that are not Māori in their origins can relate to, and can understand and can sympathise with.

– Tirohia Ki Manuka Trust Chairman Patrick Roreson on the legacy of magazine style series Koha

Key Cast & Crew

Ernie Leonard

Director, Producer, Subject

Ray Waru

Director, Producer

Robin Kora

Presenter

Lawrence Wharerau

Presenter, Reporter

Tainui Stephens

Director, Writer

Derek Wooster

Director