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Early life. Tamahori was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He is of Māori ancestry on his father's side and British on his mother's. He grew up in Tawa, a northern suburb of Wellington. Educated at Tawa School and Tawa College, [3] he began his career as a commercial artist and photographer.
Mar 14, 2024 · When it came to casting—“which can make or break a film at any stage”—Tamahori went out to two men who he calls his “usual associates”: Temuera Morrison and Cliff Curtis. Tamahori tells us they were both busy or they didn’t want to do it, or they’d been there before.
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. Making international award-winning commercials for 10 years, he has also directed several TV series.
Tamahori was born in Wellington in 1950, the self-styled ‘hybrid' child of a European mother and Māori father. He began his career as a commercial artist and photographer. Tamahori joined the film industry in the late 1970s, initially getting in the door by working for nothing.
In the early 1980s Pork Pie director Geoff Murphy promoted Tamahori to become an assistant director on Utu, and he subsequently worked as first assistant director on The Silent One, Murphy's The Quiet Earth, Came a Hot Friday and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.
Oct 3, 2023 · Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, Lee Tamahori joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later. Making international award-winning commercials for 10 years, he has also directed several TV series.
May 6, 2017 · By David Edwards 7 years ago. Twenty years ago Lee Tamahori gave us one of the best films to come out of New Zealand with Once Were Warriors, an exploration of masculinity, violence, family and Maori pride.
