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A full length television programme.

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A full length television programme.

A full length television programme.

The credits for this television programme.

The credits for this television programme.

Ngā Tohu: Signatures

Television (Full Length) – 2000

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This multi award-winning TV drama follows a whānau taking a claim to the Waitangi tribunal, over plans by a Pākehā neighbour to build a resort on disputed land. Ngā Tohu jumps between the present day and 1839/40, when Māori chiefs were canvassed to support the Treaty of Waitangi and a settler makes an equivocal land deal with Chief Tohu (George Henare). The exploration of the Treaty's evolving kaupapa is effectively humanised by an age-old love story, and it scored multiple drama gongs at 2000's NZ TV Awards. Director Andrew Bancroft wrote the teleplay with playwright Hone Kouka.

This place will be the new Sydney.
– Colonial developer Arthur Wardstone (Craig Muller)

Key Cast & Crew

Hone Kouka

Writer

George Henare

As: Tai/Tohu

George Andrews

Producer

Nancy Brunning

As: Keri/Hinewai

Andrew Bancroft

Director, Writer, Editor

Craig Muller

As: Pete/Arthur

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Produced by

Manukau Films
Legal Services Board

Source

Manukau Films

Acknowledgements

Partly funded by the Legal Services Board, Ministry of Justice

Made with funding from NZ On Air

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NZ History article on the Treaty of Waitangi