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Chelsea Winstanley, the New Zealand producer whose credits include Jojo Rabbit and What We Do In The Shadows, has opened a public casting to find voice actors from the Maori community for her re-dubbing of Disney classic The Lion King. Lion King Reo Māori will celebrate a variety of mita (dialects) through different…

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Winstanley, the Oscar nominated producer of Jojo Rabbit and What We Do In The Shadows, has arrived back in her native New Zealand to begin filming on feature documentary Toi Tu Toi Ora – Visual Sovereignty. The pic will follow the final year of preparation for the first international showing of…

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Winstanley, producer of Oscar-nominated Jojo Rabbit and festival favourite What We Do In The Shadows, is launching production company This Too Shall Pass. Based in Los Angeles and New Zealand, the new company will focus on telling “authentic stories with unique cultural perspectives” and will act as…

The youngest child of Merata Mita, the first Māori woman to write and direct a feature film, Heperi ‘Hepi’ Mita grew up with only a partial picture of who his mother was. A groundbreaking artist and activist who broke through barriers of race, class and gender in the 1970s, Mita sacrificed a great deal to give voice…