September 12, 2019
Maori writers win script development funding
Dark times on the East Coast will be recalled in a television drama series that has been given development funding through NZ On Air and the New Zealand Film Commission’s Raupapa Whakaari Drama to the World initiative.
Ashes and Prophets is a tale of arson, kidnapping and murder engulfing a small New Zealand town as a Maori Rastafarian sect exacts revenge for historical land theft. Behind the project are Kath Akuhata-Brown, Greg McGee, Philippa Rennie, Robin Scholes and Lee Tamahori
Four projects selected for Scripted series drama development
.They will receive $80,000 from the fund, which supports writer/producer teams to develop distinctive, high-end scripted series drama with international and domestic appeal.
Briar Grace-Smith, Desray Armstrong and Victor Rodger won funding to develop Drunk Poetry, a series about a newly-separated woman in her forties, who discovers she has the emotional brain of a fourteen-year-old and has to grow up all over again.
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