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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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