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Pete Smith (New Zealand Actor)
Peter Bruce Smith (7 August 1958 – 29 January 2022) was a New Zealand actor. He performed in important New Zealand films such as '' The Piano'' (1993) and ''Once Were Warriors'' (1995), as well working on well known television shows, including appearances on ''The Billy T James Show'' (1990) and ''Shortland Street'' in 1999. Career At the outset of his career, Smith joined a drama course run by Maori film maker Don Selwyn, and soon thereafter performed in several of Selwyn's theatre productions, among them ''The Gospel according to Taane'' (1985), ''The Maori Merchant of Venice'' (2002) and ''Te Whai Ao''. Smith made his screen debut with a GOFTA-winning role as one of the last people on earth, in science fiction film ''The Quiet Earth'' (1985). His film credits include many notable New Zealand films, among them '' The Piano'' (1993), ''Once Were Warriors'' (1995), and the latter's sequel ''What Becomes of the Broken Hearted'' (1999). He also featured as an orc in Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaitaia
Kaitaia ( mi, Kaitāia) is a town in the Far North District of New Zealand, at the base of the Aupouri Peninsula, about 160 km northwest of Whangārei. It is the last major settlement on New Zealand State Highway 1, State Highway 1. Ahipara, Ahipara Bay, the southern end of Ninety Mile Beach, New Zealand, Ninety Mile Beach, is 5 km west. The main industries are forestry and tourism. The population is as of which makes it the second-largest town in the Far North District, after Kerikeri. The name Kaitāia means ample food, kai being the Māori language, Māori word for food. The Muriwhenua are a group of six northern Māori people, Māori iwi occupying the northernmost part of the North Island surrounding Kaitaia. History and culture European settlement The Kaitaia Mission Station was established between 1833 and 1834 after a series of visits by Church Missionary Society (CMS) representatives including Samuel Marsden, and at different times, Joseph Matthews and Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenstone (TV Series)
__NOTOC__ Greenstone may refer to: Geology * Greenstone (archaeology), various types of stone used by early cultures, covering jade and similar stones * Greenstone belt, Archean and Proterozoic volcanic–sedimentary rock sequences * Isle Royale greenstone Chlorastrolite, found in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan and Isle Royale in the US * Pounamu (New Zealand jade/greenstone), several types of hard and durable stone found in southern New Zealand * Greensand (geology), glauconite bearing sandstone and a geologic formation in the UK * Greenschist, metamorphosed mafic volcanic rock and a metamorphic facies * Elvan, a quartz-porphyry found in Cornwall, UK Places * Greenstone, Ontario, a municipality in Canada * Greenstone, Queensland, a locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Australia * Greenstone Hill, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa * Greenstone Point, a high rock spur along the north front of Jones Mountains, Antarctica * Greenstone River, river in the Otago/Southland reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Tide (TV Series)
''High Tide'' is an American television series created by Jeff Franklin and Steve Waterman and starring Rick Springfield and Yannick Bisson. The syndicated procedural aired from 1994 to 1997 and lasted 72 episodes over three seasons. Premise Mick Barrett, a former police officer, works as a private detective with his younger brother Joey in San Diego. For their work, they travel to exotic locales and, in their free time, they are surfers. At the beginning of the series, they work primarily for Gordon, a retired CIA agent. Cast *Rick Springfield as Mick Barrett (69 episodes) *Yannick Bisson as Joey Barrett (63 episodes) *Julie Lynn Cialini as Annie (unknown episodes) *Mary Ann Schmidt as Bikini Beauty (17 episodes) *Diana Frank as Fritz (7 episodes) *George Segal as Gordon (7 episodes) Episodes Season 1 (1994–95) Season 2 (1995–96) Season 3 (1996–97) Production George Segal appeared in a prominent recurring role in the first season, starting with the pilot. Though t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tattooist
''The Tattooist'' is a 2007 New Zealand horror film directed by Peter Burger and starring Jason Behr, Nathaniel Lees, Michael Hurst and Robbie Magasiva among others. The film is the first in a series of official co-productions between New Zealand and Singapore. Plot Jake Sawyer (Jason Behr) is a global wanderer and tattooist who explores ethnic themes in his designs. While visiting Singapore to sell his craft at a local trade show, he swipes an ancient Samoan tattoo tool. After flying to New Zealand to resume his art, he meets up with a lovely Samoan woman named Sina (Mia Blake) and discovers the local Samoan culture. But Jake slowly learns that his stolen tool ends up unleashing an evil avenging spirit whom targets all of the customers that Jake has given tattoos to since his theft of the tool. While attempting to learn pe'a, the Samoan tradition of tattooing, Jake soon realizes that Sina is imperiled when she gets a tattoo from him and he must find a way to save her, and himse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spooked (film)
''Spooked'' is a 2004 New Zealand film directed by Geoff Murphy and loosely based on Ian Wishart's novel ''The Paradise Conspiracy'', which itself is based on actual events in New Zealand. Partly funded by the New Zealand Film Commission, ''Spooked'' had its first screenings in the market at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it was first reviewed. The film performed poorly at the box office after some negative reviews despite its cast of prominent New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... actors. Plot Investigative journalist Mort Whitman (Cliff Curtis) is onto the story of his lifetime, the most important story in the nation. It was huge, involving a big payoff from a multinational bank to a second-hand computer dealer Kevin Jones (Christopher Hobbs). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of Johnny Lingo
''The Legend of Johnny Lingo'' is a 2003 film set in Polynesia and directed by Steven Ramirez. It is an extension of the 1969 short film ''Johnny Lingo'' that is based on a story by Patricia McGerr. Plot An orphan boy named Tama is adopted by an island chief named Malio who, having no children of his own, intends to raise Tama as his son and heir. However, a string of unlucky incidents causes Malio to conclude that Tama is cursed, and he becomes an outcast, passed from family to family around the island. At one point, a drunk villager, Pioi, takes Tama in. He has a daughter named Mahana who is considered ugly by the other islanders. Even though she is ill-treated by her father and the people around her, she remains kind and good and befriends Tama. One day, Tama, disgusted with life in Pioi's household and his status as an outcast, decides to leave the island in a canoe he built. Before departing, he promises Mahana that he will come back and care for her. Caught in a violent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapa-Nui (film)
''Rapa-Nui'' is a 1994 American historical action-adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds and coproduced by Kevin Costner, who starred in Reynolds's previous film, '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' (1991). The plot is based on Rapanui legends of Easter Island, Chile, in particular the race for the sooty tern's egg in the Birdman Cult. The historic details of this film are questionable, and though the central theme—the destruction of the island's irreplaceable forests is well-authenticated, the idea that this led to the destruction of the Rapa Nui is questionable. The struggle in the story is derived from the legend of the Hanau epe. This film is also one of the biggest box office bombs based on gross earnings, making $305,070 on a $20 million budget. Plot There are two classes of people: Long Ears and Short Ears. Long Ears, marked by large wooden plugs in their earlobes and a certain tattoo, are the ruling class. The working-class Short Ears have no ear plugs and a diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandemonium (1987 Film)
''Pandemonium'' is a 1987 Australian fantasy comedy horror film in the style of ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p153 Plot synopsis Raised by a family of dingoes, a young feral girl heads for Babylon, Australia to find her family, only to find that her mother is not all she seems. Cast *Amanda Dole as the dingo girl *David Argue as Kales Leadingham / Ding the Dingo *Esben Storm as E.B. De Woolf / Husband *Arna-Maria Winchester as P.B. De Woolf / Wife *Lex Marinos as Dick Dickerson / Detective *Ian Nimmo as Mr. David *Mercia Deane-Johns as Morticia *Haydn Keenan as Dr. Doctor Reception Australian film critic Michael Adams later included ''Pandemonium'' on his list of the worst ever Australian films, along with '' Phantom Gold'', ''The Glenrowan Affair'', ''Houseboat Horror'', ''Welcome to Woop Woop'', ''Les Patterson Saves the World'' and ''The Pirate Movie''.Michael Ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori People
The Māori (, ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed their own distinctive culture, whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands, where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Initial contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century, ranged from beneficial trade to lethal violence; Māori actively adopted many technologies from the newcomers. With the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising tensions over disputed land sales led to conflict in the 1860s, and massive land confiscations, to which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori Television
Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Cook Islands * Cook Islands Māori, the language of the Cook Islanders Ships * SS ''Maori'', a steamship of the Shaw Savill Line, shipwrecked 1909 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, sunk in 1915 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, launched 1936 and sunk 1942 * TEV ''Maori III'', a Union Steam Ship Company inter-island ferry, 1952–74 Sports teams * New Zealand Māori cricket team * New Zealand Māori rugby league team * New Zealand Māori rugby union team Other * ''Maori'', a novel by Alan Dean Foster *Mayotte, in the Bushi language Bushi or Kibosy (''Shibushi'' or ''Kibushi'') is a dialect of Malagasy spoken in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. Malagasy dialects most closely related to Bushi are spoken in northw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
More Issues
More or Mores may refer to: Computing * MORE (application), outline software for Mac OS * more (command), a shell command * MORE protocol, a routing protocol * Missouri Research and Education Network Music Albums * ''More!'' (album), by Booka Shade, 2010 * ''More'' (soundtrack), by Pink Floyd with music from the 1969 film * ''More...'' (Trace Adkins album), or the title song, 1999 * ''More'' (Mary Alessi album), 2005 * ''More'' (Beyoncé EP), 2014 * ''More'' (Michael Bublé EP), 2005 * ''More'' (Clarke-Boland Big Band album), 1968 * ''More'' (Double Dagger album), 2009 * ''More...'' (Montell Jordan album), 1996 * ''More'' (Crystal Lewis album), 2001 * ''More'' (Giuseppi Logan album), 1966 * ''More'' (No Trend album), 2001 * ''More'' (Jeremy Riddle album), or the title song, 2017 * ''More'' (Symphony Number One album), 2016 * ''More'' (Tamia album), or the title song, 2004 * ''More'' (Vitamin C album), 2001 * ''More'', by Mylon LeFevre, 1983 * ''More'', by Resin Dog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issues (TV Series)
Issue or issues may refer to: Publishing * ''Issue'' (company), a mobile publishing company * ''Issue'' (magazine), a monthly Korean comics anthology magazine * Issue (postal service), a stamp or a series of stamps released to the public * ''Issues (American Council for Judaism)'', a Jewish magazine * ''Issues in Science and Technology'' a public policy peer reviewed journal pertaining to science, engineering, and medicine Computers * Issue (computers), a unit of work to accomplish an improvement in a data system ** Issue tracking system, a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of bugs, etc. * Issue log, a documentation element of software project management Music * Issues (band), a metalcore band from Atlanta, Georgia ** ''Issues'' (Issues album), 2014 * ''Issues'' (Korn album), 1999 * ''Issues'', a 2000 R&B album by Somethin' for the People * ''Issue VI'', a 2005 thrash metal album by Dew-Scented * "Issues" (Escape the Fate song), 2010 * "Issues" (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
