My feature script, 🔥EMKHATSINI🔥 made the Semifinals... ✊🏽 Thank you to @StoweStoryLabs & Final Draft 🤞🏽🤞🏽

I’m a Fellowship Winner and my feature script > 🔥EMKHATSINI🔥is a selected project 💥 Thank you @StoweStoryLabs and Final Draft

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🔴Live today #FutureNow2021 Aesthetica Magazine Watch #Short #films by Terry J Jones @cornsoupman GIK:SKWOD: How I lost My Indian Name; and Taratoa Stappard EMKHATSINI (Between) —featured filmmakers Native Spirit Festival #Indigenous Cinema Guest programme at 20th AestheticaFilmFest

🔥MĀRAMA🔥 is my Māori Revenge Horror set in Victorian England, 1869. Click👇🏽 for more...

Thank you Justin 🙏🏽

Taratoa Stappard is a part-Māori writer/director based in the U.K. This year he's directing TAUMANU for TVNZ+. In his Māori revenge horror, MĀRAMA, a young part-Māori schoolteacher journeys to Victorian England & uncovers the truth of her colonial heritage 🇳🇿 tiff.net/industry-alumn…

🎉Congrats to Taratoa Stappard on being selected for the inaugural Black List New Zealand Project! The project includes development funding for his new script MĀRAMA and mentorship with the @NZFilmCommissh ✍️deadline.com/2021/05/six-sc…

When you’re waiting to check in AKL > HRW and the ENTIRE CAST of ‘The 🦁 King’ is also checking in ❤️ ...The Circle of Life ❤️

This is going to be 🔥🔥🔥 by screenwriter / exec producer @Emilia_diG

the purity of this note al pacino wrote to robert de niro after watching raging bull 🤧❤️

Hell yeah! Prano Bailey-Bond 🔥🤘🏽🔥 ⚡️What an inspiration!⚡️

gointothestory.blcklst.com/reflections-of… This was such a fantastic experience. Ngā mihi nui | Thank you @NZFilmCommissh The Black List ❤️

But I also gotta talk about the joy. Not to again compare #MichaelKWilliams to X but they were both so characteristically Gen X Black men born and raised in these NYC streets. They had been through battle, they were haunted even, but they also grabbed moments of joy full out.

The first New Zealander to win the The Booker Prizes Keri Hulme won the award in 1985 for 'The Bone People'. I love the bit here during the ceremony when they ring her on the phone to tell her and she says, "Bloody hell!" youtu.be/0ISBbU9UYQc #KeriHulme #TheBonePeople

TAUMANU 🖤🤍❤️ it’s time to RECLAIM... 🌊🦉🔪🩸🔥

🔥✊🏽🔥 RickyLee Waipuka-Russell, Rita Peihopa and Eds Eramiha in TAUMANU

Very happy to be joining 19 other filmmakers from around the world for 5 days participating in the ⁦Zurich Film Festival⁩ ‘Academy’ - thank you to ⁦British Council Film⁩ for getting me there 🙏🏽 industry.zff.com/en/zff-academy…

Looking forward to being part of this:

TIFF Talent alum Taratoa Stappard’s (Writers’ Studio ‘21) MĀRAMA has been selected for the Berlinale Coproduction Market 2023. Taratoa Stappard’s title is among 33 film projects from 26 countries that will be presented to coproduction and financing partners. variety.com/2023/film/glob…