The 34-year-old Maori has personal experience with the cultural subjugation portrayed in the film about New Zealand's indigenous people by Ken Shulman Los Angeles Times, March 10, 1995 She has become the emblem for the Maori renaissance, a two-fisted earth mother who fights to stem the slide of...
Film on Abuse Takes New Zealand by Edward Guthmann San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 1995 In New Zealand, where Hollywood exports normally dominate the nation's movie screens, a kiwi film called ``Once Were Warriors,'' directed by New Zealander Lee Tamahori and based on a novel about a contemporary...
It was a battle between a Kiwi and a Tyrannosaurus Rex - and the Kiwi won by Juan Morales Detour Magazine, March 1, 1995 Last year, Rena Owen witnessed the stark contrast between a low-budget independent film and a high-dollar Hollywood opus firsthand. First, she made her screen...
Warrior Woman by Alex Patterson Voice, February 28, 1995 "Our people once were warriors," proclaims working-class wife Beth Heke in what amounts to her declaration of independence. Rena Owen plays Beth, and the people she's referring to are New Zealand's natives, the Maori. Related to Hawaiians and Tahitians,...
A new film from New Zealand is hard-boiled, gritty, and fascinating. So is its powerhouse star. by B. Ruby Rich Elle Magazine, February 1, 1995 "My mother always says I was born an actress," says Rena Owen, "very dramatic and sensitive and hysterical." Owen burns up the screen...
Rena Owen fights her way from ex-con to icon by Holly Millea Premiere Magazine, February 1, 1995 If Rena Owen had never been a junkie, never slipped into the night needing a fix, and had never gone to prison, she would never have become the star of New...
The Warrior Woman by Murray Waldren The Australian Magazine, December 10, 1994 Photographs capture facets, and New Zealand actor Rena Owen is multifaceted. But pagan goddess serenity, while photogenic, is light years from the image soon to sear itself on the collective retina of Beth, the victim/star of...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/10-international-tv-shows-binge-667280#10-straits _______________________________________________________________________________ Big screen will make mau rakau cool Filming [December 17, 2013] Expect an upsurge of interest in the Maori martial arts when a new action epic hits theatres around the world. Actors including Boy star James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare and Rena Owen are out at Piha...
