Maori boy genius : Volume one / a film by Pietra Brettkelly.
Maori boy genius is a coming-of-age film profiling future leader Ngaa Rauuira, railing against his people's statistics of uneducated youth, 40% of prisoners, and alarming suicide rates. At 4 he learnt English. At 12 he began his first university degree. At 14 he googled international politics a...
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| Format: | DVD/Blu-Ray |
| Language: | English |
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[Auckland, N.Z.] :
P. Brettkelly,
c2012.
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| Summary: | Maori boy genius is a coming-of-age film profiling future leader Ngaa Rauuira, railing against his people's statistics of uneducated youth, 40% of prisoners, and alarming suicide rates. At 4 he learnt English. At 12 he began his first university degree. At 14 he googled international politics and came up with Yale University. Ngaa's story reveals a family of eight on a modest income, committing to a US$35,000 Yale bill; a weighty tribal expectation that he will be the voice of his people and bring success in war dance competitions; laughing and crying with best friends, approaching adulthood and diverging pathways. What if we could turn back the clock and watch the minds forming of those who would create political zeitgeist shifts in the future? Maori boy genius does just that. |
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| Item Description: | "This film was made with the support of New Zealand on Air and the doc lab of the Binger Filmlab." |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (ca. 84 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm |
| Format: | DVD; region 0 ; Aspect ratio: 16:9. |
| Production Credits: | Writer/director/producer, Pietra Brettkelly ; director of photography, Jacob Bryant ; original soundtrack, Anika Moa. |