We Are Still Here

We Are Still Here celebrates the strength, defiance, and survival of Indigenous peoples not only from Aotearoa, Australia, and the Pacific, but all Indigenous people around the world.

– Producer Mia Henry-Teirney on We Are Still Here

As a joint indigenous initiative and co-production between Australia and New Zealand, We Are Still Here successfully brought together Māori, Moana, and Aboriginal filmmakers at all levels of experience, drawing on stories grounded in their respective cultures. The kaupapa of this film has insured the authentic perspectives of those communities and people who have been colonised, diminished in their own countries, and experiencing every day the invisibility of first nation people, and to remind everyone We Are Still Here. The NZ Film Commission are very proud to have supported this film and enable an opportunity for these filmmakers to be recognised and acknowledged on their storytelling journey.

– Karen Te O Kahurangi Waaka, Pou Whakahaere at the NZ Film Commission, on We Are Still Here, 25 July 2022

We Are Still Here is unquestionably memorable and, at times, a thrilling achievement, one that imparts a wonderful sense of growing, expanding, and evolving, almost as if it has a life of its own. When there is so much same-same content about, there is nothing else quite like this.

– Guardian critic Luke Buckmaster in a four star review, 8 June 2022