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Making Music - Whirimako Black

Short Film (Full Length) – 2005

Whānau is at the forefront of this episode from a series made for high school music students, which features bilingual Māori jazz and soul diva Whirimako Black. After an introduction in te reo, there’s an intimate acoustic performance of ‘Te Tini O Toi’ from her award-winning debut album Shrouded in the Mist. It’s a lullaby written for her children — and grandchildren to come — so they will know where they come from. Black also honours her grandfather, a multi-instrumentalist who began encouraging her to make music when she was three years old.

I hope that he can see me and that he’s really proud that, when he invested in me to teach me how to entertain, he did a good choice because I’m still doing it now.
– Whirimako Black remembers her grandfather

Key Cast & Crew

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Whirimako Black

Subject

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Arthur Baysting

Director, Producer

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Jeff Fulton

Sound

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Stephen Jessup

Sound

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David Green

Camera

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Anastassia Smirnova

Editor

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