From New Zealand with love by Gemma Files eye weekly, December 9, 1999 The New Zealand film When Love Comes had its first Canadian screening at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, after which it quickly disappeared into that void reserved for good, but not distinctive, foreign movies...
Portrait of a Warrior Rena Owen is happy. So happy she wouldn't change her life for the world. by Amber Smith Lifestyle, June 1, 1999 Many of us saw Rena in Once Were Warriors - her spectacular performance as a beaten wife made us cry, tremble and opened our...
Toronto Premiere for New Film Starring Rena Owen NZfilm, October 1, 1998 Garth Maxwell's new feature When Love Comes had its world premiere last month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Rena Owen, internationally acclaimed star of Once Were Warriors, is the star of this feature, and she...
Stylish Comedy - Heist Movie Mixes Hilarity and Reality NZfilm, October 1, 1998 Athina Tsoulis's first feature, a stylish comedy titled I'll Make You Happy, will have its first trade screenings at the Mifed market in Milan. The central character is Siggy, a cheerful teenage prostitute, played by...
Proud Warrior: Actress Rena Owen by Ed Rampell Win Magazine, June 1, 1998 When Rena Owen played an abused Maori wife in New Zealand's top-grossing film ever, Once Were Warriors, she was so convincing that many thought she wasn't even acting. Although she is half-Maori, Owen has never...
Rena, Warrior Princess Beating a bad attitude by Tom Hyde Metro, June 30, 1997 TOM HYDE caught up with Rena who is still very much alive and about to start shooting her second feature film. Maria Makarena Owen has just finished a 10-hour day on the set of Medivac, the...
Beth Heke is the central figure in 'Once Were Warriors', a film based on the novel by Alan Duff. Beth is played, unforgettably, by Rena Owen. by Katherine Findlay Mana Magazine, May 1, 1995 I recognize her easily enough. The curly hair, broad forehead and ready laugh. It's...
Kiwi actress Rena Owen, newly crowned Best Actress at the Montreal Film Festival, stars in New Zealand's biggest box-office smash. by Cullen Gerst MovieMaker, April 1, 1995 Rena Owen claims she's not surprised by the box office success of Once Were Warriors. New Zealand's latest film export is...
