Storytelling for Our Own People: A Reflection on Working with Māori Filmmaker Barry Barclay

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aut.relation.endpage74
aut.relation.issue2en_NZ
aut.relation.journalMEDIANZ Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealanden_NZ
aut.relation.pages11
aut.relation.startpage63
aut.relation.volume17en_NZ
aut.researcherMilligan, Christina
dc.contributor.authorMilligan, Cen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-11T03:41:51Z
dc.date.available2019-03-11T03:41:51Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_NZ
dc.date.issued2017en_NZ
dc.description.abstractMāori film director and writer Barry Barclay is recognized among international indigenous filmmakers as a foundational figure. As a philosopher and a filmmaker, he was fierce in pursuit of what he saw to be tika, that which is true, upright and just. He worked in an often expensive, always collaborative medium, and his unwillingness to compromise was sometimes seen as intransigence. He was thus frequently at odds, not just with mainstream film funders and distributors, but also with some of his compatriots in the world of Māori filmmaking. Yet from my perspective as a producer working with him late in his career, the process of developing a screenplay with him was a constructive, deeply creative experience where disagreements were always focused on enhancing the work itself. While he is best known as a film director, this article is a practice-led exploration of his work as a screenwriter as revealed through two film scripts we worked on in the years between 1995 and 2007. It discusses his process as a screenwriter on these films, exploring his strengths as a writer while also placing these two projects within the wider frame of his complete oeuvre.
dc.identifier.citationMEDIANZ: Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand, 17(2).
dc.identifier.doi10.11157/medianz-vol17iss2id192en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn2382-218Xen_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/12347
dc.publisherMedia Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand (MEDIANZ)
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dc.titleStorytelling for Our Own People: A Reflection on Working with Māori Filmmaker Barry Barclayen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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