Elizabeth Anne Hakaraia is a New Zealand film producer and director.

Biography

Hakaraia was raised in Lower Hutt and started her broadcasting career at Radio Waikato when she was 17 years old. When she was 20, she moved to Radio Aotearoa and later to the

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. After some time living and working in Europe she returned to New Zealand and worked on National Radio’s Māori magazine show ''Whenua.'' In the later 1990s Hakaraia began researching, producing, writing and directing documentaries and television series. In 2004 she founded her own production company, Blue Bach Productions. In 2014 Hakaraia established the Māoriland Film Festival; two years later the Māoriland Charitable Trust opened a cinema and arts space which Hakaraia manages. Hakaraia has been a jury member at ImagineNATIVE, the world’s largest indigenous film festival, and an executive member of Screen Production and Development Association and Ngā Aho Whakaari. In the early 2000s Hakaraia wrote a book for adult readers and another for children about

Matariki ), signalling the Māori new year., litcolor=, observedby=New Zealanders, nickname=, official_name=, alt=, image=M45 Pleiades Pbkwee (cropped to core 9 stars).jpg, relatedto=, date2022=24 June, date2023=14 July In Māori culture, Matariki is the ...

, a Māori celebration of the new year. In the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hakaraia was appointed a

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have ren ...

, for services to the film and media industries.

Filmography

Publications

* Hakaraia, L. (2008). ''Matariki: The Māori New Year''. North Shore, N.Z: Raupo. * Hakaraia, L., & Urlich, C. W. (2008). ''Te kahui o Matariki: Contemporary Māori art for Matariki''. North Shore City, N.Z: Raupo. * Hakaraia, L. (2004). ''Matariki''. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.

Personal life

Hakaraia's

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are Ngāti Kapumanawawhiti,

Ngāti Raukawa Ngāti Raukawa is a Māori iwi with traditional bases in the Waikato, Taupo and Manawatu/Horowhenua regions of New Zealand. In 2006, 29,418 Māori registered their affiliation with Ngāti Raukawa. History Early history Ngāti Raukawa rec ...

, Ngāti Toa Rangatira and

Te Āti Awa Te Āti Awa is a Māori iwi with traditional bases in the Taranaki and Wellington regions of New Zealand. Approximately 17,000 people registered their affiliation to Te Āti Awa in 2001, with around 10,000 in Taranaki, 2,000 in Wellington and aro ...

. Her partner is film producer Tainui Stevens .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hakaraia, Libby Te Āti Awa people New Zealand film directors New Zealand film producers Ngāti Toa people Ngāti Raukawa people People from Lower Hutt Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit Living people Year of birth missing (living people)