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Let My Whakapapa Speak
(2008, 77 min.) NEW ZEALAND
Director: Tainui Stephens (Te Rarawha)
The kōhanga reo, Maori “language nests,” are cited worldwide as the model for language and culture revitalization through total immersion. Through the voice of one of the movement’s foremost leaders, Iritana Tawhiwhirangi, this documentary chronicles the kōhanga reo from its early days as a grass-roots project of the Department of Maori Affairs to its success, three decades later, having graduated over 60,000 fluent te reo Maori speakers.
Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video
Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI |
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