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Warren Lee Tamahori (/ ˌ t ɑː m ə ˈ h ɔː r i /; born 17 June 1950) is a New Zealand film director. He is known for directing the films Once Were Warriors (1994), Along Came a Spider (2001) and Die Another Day (2002).
Lee Tamahori. Director: Once Were Warriors. Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, he joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later.
Jul 15, 2024 · In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns home to New Zealand for a look at a fraught chapter in the country’s history. Bringing his action movie bona fides from the James Bond entry "Die Another Day" and "xXx: State of the Union," Tamahori hews intense dramatic moments over battlefields and tense conversations as two factions of indigenous Māori wrestle for control while British colonists set up one of their first claims on the nation.Our main ...
Jul 12, 2024 · The Convert: Directed by Lee Tamahori. With Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Antonio Te Maioha, Jacqueline McKenzie. A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s.
Jun 14, 2024 · Thirty years after breaking through with his debut feature Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori has made The Convert, a film that completes a trilogy he always intended to make – without knowing exactly what it would be about. Warriors catapulted him into Hollywood, a step that, then aged in his mid-40s, he was more than ready to take.
Mar 14, 2024 · Lee Tamahori and Robin Scholes’ great filmmaking partnership continues with The Convert, set in 1830s Aotearoa. Steve Newall talks with the esteemed pair about their new film – and their shared history.
Lee Tamahori. Director: Once Were Warriors. Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, he joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later.
With Mahana (aka The Patriarch), Lee Tamahori has brought together some of New Zealand’s finest talent for his first film on home ground since 1996’s. Once Were Warriors.
Lee Tamahori. Director [Ngāti Porou] Overview. Biography. Screenography. Awards. More Information. Photos. Lee Tamahori won acclaim with his first feature film in 1994, an adaptation of the Alan Duff novel Once Were Warriors.
Mar 16, 2024 · Three decades of making movies and now with a new Kiwi film close to his heart, Lee Tamahori still has stories to tell. The Convert is set in 1830s Aotearoa and has just opened in cinemas.
