Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very influential, Indigenous film makers. The film The Camera on The Shore is a feature length introduction to Barry, and to his film making.
Screenplay
Situada en y alrededor de la ciudad ficticia de Kapua en 1948, Ngati es la historia de una comunidad maorí. La película consta de tres hilos narrativos: un niño, Ropata, se muere de leucemia; el regreso de un joven médico australiano, Greg, y su descubrimiento de que tiene herencia maorí; y la lucha por mantener abierta la congelación local.
Writer
In a Maori settlement, Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha composes the famous chant "Ka Mate", also known as the haka, after evading enemy capture by hiding in a kumara pit.
Eddie's father
Three Maori youths, bored with Auckland, head south in a restored Mark II Zephyr in search of something different. One of them is on the run from drug dealers, whom he had crossed. Various mini-adventures occurs as they make their way down the North Island, but it all comes to a head while visiting a cousin. Finally, they, the drug dealers and the police all come together, with the expected fights and arrests.
