ABOUT US

Producer
Te Whānau a Apanui, Rongowhakaata

Tweedie is most well known for producing the first-ever Reo Māori Disney film in 2017, Moana Reo Māori, however, she has worked on many projects whose core focus is the celebration of Te Reo Māori. Tweedie is currently collaborating with a range of national and international media companies to develop meaningful reo Māori and indigenous projects. Tweedie produced/line produced four seasons of ‘Whānau Living’ with Adrenalin Group for TV1. She was the cultural advisor and also directed part of season two of ‘Moving Out’ with Faultline Films for Three. Recently, Tweedie worked with the Auckland Arts Festival and Hollie Smith to create a unique Reo Māori version of ‘Bathe in the River’. Tweedie is often called upon as a cultural producer or reo consultant on a wide range of projects from film, television, theatre and also corporate organisations. Tweedie’s production company Kokko Media is currently producing a number of projects including ‘Puta Mōhio’ a Māori Science program for Heihei and NZOA, ‘Get Home’ a decolonisation docu-series for TVNZ OnDemand and more

Producer
Ngāti Ranginui, Ngai te Rangi

Chelsea Winstanley is a New Zealand Academy-award nominated film producer. Winstanley was one of three producers of Academy-award nominated movie Jojo Rabbit, which had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and won best-adapted screenplay The Oscars in 2020. Winstanley is a producer on Night Raiders, the first indigenous co-production between Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. She also produced the critically acclaimed documentary MERATA: HOW MUM DECOLONISED THE SCREEN about pioneer female indigenous director Merata Mita; the feature had its US and European premieres at the 2019 Sundance and Berlinale film festivals. She produced the award-winning feature What We Do in the Shadows which had its world-premiere at Sundance’14. Winstanley was one of the directors of portmanteau TIFF’17 WARU and her short FORGIVE ME has played at ImagiNative and the NZIFF. Winstanley is currently directing and producing “TOI TŪ TOI ORA – Visual Sovereignty” under her banner This Too Shall Pass alongside announcing future projects THE APPEAL, and KA PŌ.

Music Director / Waiata Translator
Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Porou,Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tainui, Rongowhakaata, Ngāpuhi, Ngā Ariki-kaipūtahi

Ko Rob Ruha tētahi o ngā tino kai-waiata, kaitito waiatahoki tēnei whakareanga Māori. He tamaiti nate ao kapa haka i whāngai kite waiata mete Māoritanga, ā, nō te tau 2014 ka puta a Rob ki te ao hai kai-waiatatakitahi. Kua eke aia ingā tiketiketanganui ote ao waiata ki Aotearoa nei, kua puta hoki wōna momo waiata e kīa ana kote ‘Haka-soul’ ki te ao whānui. As a champion for te reo Māori, his Waiata Kalega and Ka Manu currently feature in the Spotify top 10 for most streamed Waiata in Te Reo Māori; his collective project “Mōhau” picked up 2 awards at the inaugural Aotearoa Music Awards and his latest Waiata ’35’ with Māori choir “Ka Hao” has been a Tic Tok smash, trending at no.1 and hitting no.1 on the Hot Singles charts and 25 on the NZ top 40. Rob was musical director for the reo Māori reversion of Disney’s MOANA and translated the reo Māori subtitles for THOR Ragnarök. He continues mahi in this field for Ka Hao: Te Tira Waiata o Te Tairāwhiti, TM50 project (Te Matatini), The APRA Silver Scrolls Awards, and the award winning Mohau project. He will pick up the mantle again with the latest reversioning of Disney movies.

Performance Director, Head of Casting
Ngāti Mutunga Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Kāti Huirapa

Rachel has performed in some of Aotearoa’s most successful films, including Whale-rider, Cousin’s, Taika Waititi’s Eagle vs Shark, Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Internationally she has appeared in Disney’s Moana, Thor Ragnorak, Netflixes Stateless, Pixar’s Academy award-winning SOUL as Terry, beloved Aussie film Penguin Bloom and the upcoming The Portable Door produced by Jim Henson’s company. Behind the camera, she has directed the short film The Winter Boy which premiered at the NZ Film Festival in 2011 as well as directing commercials for Auckland Transport and ASB. And her theatre productions of Have Car Will Travel and the reo version of Toroihi raua ko Kāhira/Troilus and Cressida which was performed at the Globe Theatre in London were awarded Director of the Year by Wellington Theatre Critics. Rachel is also an acting coach in NZ films, including The Rehearsal, Dark Horse, Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Golden Globe nominated, Oscar winning Jojo Rabbit. She is the recipient of an Arts Laureate, New Zealand Officer of Merit (NZOM), Matariki performer of the year 2018 and the WIFT Mana Wahine award 2016. For the reversioning of Moana into te reo Māori, Rachel helped oversee the casting and was the performance coach and Director.

Music Co-Director / Waiata Translator

Waiata Translator

Producer of Education Content
Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui

Te Rāhui is the Pou Tiaki for Ngā Kura ā Iwi o Aotearoa. Her role includes communcations, collaboration and marketing for an association of 37 tribally led schools across Aotearoa. She is a former principal and secondary school teacher with a background in broadcasting and media. She is a current MBA candidate at Auckland University. Te Rāhui is a company director of Kokko Media who has several shows currently in production.

For this project, Te Rāhui will craft the educational resources that will accompany each film to ensure our tamariki mokopuna across the country will enjoy the films from and entertainment perspective but also as a key learning resource as well.