ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
04 Oct 2014, Posted by in ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS, Blog
Oscar Race: New Zealand Picks ‘The Dead Lands’ for Foreign-Language Race
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 | 07:49PM PT
Shalini Dore
New Zealand has selected Maori-language “The Dead Lands” as its entry in the Oscar foreign-language race.
Toa Fraser’s film centers around a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, who must avenge his...
12 Aug 2014, Posted by in ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
Rena Owen follows her heart home
by Donna Fleming
New Zealand Woman's Weekly, December 7, 2011
Rena Owen has the world at her feet. The acclaimed Kiwi actress has just won a major acting award, taken on the most challenging role of her career and is excited about...
12 Aug 2014, Posted by in ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
Writer Profile: Rena Owen
by Rena Owen
The New Zealand Writers Guild, January 1, 2010
Kia ora koutou. My name is Maria Makarena Owen, more commonly known as Rena. Born and bred in rural Northland, my tribe is Ngati Hine/Ngati Pakeha. Although I am best known as an...
12 Aug 2014, Posted by in ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
The way we were
by Kim Knight
Sunday Star Times, August 30, 2009
IT'S one of our most famous plays, written by our most famous playwright, but it has never been professionally staged in our biggest city.Now, nearly half a century after Bruce Mason penned The Pohutukawa Tree,...
12 Aug 2014, Posted by in ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
Rena Owen returns to rural roots
Vincent Ward's latest film, Rain Of The Children, required Rena Owen to return to her rural roots. It wasn't difficult.
by Shane Gilchrist
Otago Daily Times, September 13, 2008
Vincent Ward's latest film, Rain Of The Children, required Rena Owen to return...
12 Aug 2014, Posted by in ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
An interview with Rena Owen, the star of Once Were Warriors
by Tobe A. Roberts IV
CINEMA WITHOUT BORDERS, June 19, 2007
I had the pleasure of first viewing Rena’s powerful film, “Once Were Warriors”, at the famous Angelika theatre in the SoHo area of New York City....
12 Aug 2014, Posted by in ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
Rena's happy in Hollywood
FROM TUNA TO TINSEL: Rena Owen is enjoying being back home in Moerewa.
by Helen Castles
Fairfax New Zealand Limited, May 8, 2007
The Northern News caught up with Hollywood star, Rena Owen while she was visiting family in Moerewa last week.
She may be a...
12 Aug 2014, Posted by in ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
Fijian family's tale told through 'Eyes' of a camera
by Wayne Harada
HonoluluAdvertiser.com, March 11, 2005
Before making his first feature film, Vilsoni "Vili" Hereniko met a movie-maker from India who gave him the best advice possible:Look to your past, retrace your life, then share that story."I was...