Six Films. One Kaupapa.
Showdown
Waiōhau, 1960s. Three Māori boys cross a haunted stretch of road on a moonless night. Haka's courage is borrowed — the swagger of a cinema gunslinger he'll never be. But when the dark demands the real thing, borrowed courage fails. What he discovers in its place is older than any film he's ever seen, and it comes to him by breath and by contact, not by instruction.
Hongi
A Hokianga football coach inherits a whakataukī from his grandfather — that a real relationship can exist across oceans, held together by nothing more than a photograph and the will to believe it. The photograph is from Uruguay, 1967. The grandfather is gone. What the coach must decide is whether the old man was right — and whether he is willing to find out.
Just Football
Aroha Alice Marupo fights her way into the men's professional game and is rebranded simply "Alice." The name is a contract. When her father's love — carried in a jar of shells from the shore of her childhood — finds her in the tunnel before the biggest game of her career, she has to decide what she is willing to answer to.
The Technical Area
When a Kāi Tahu coach still unsure of his own identity at the wrong end of his career takes a last posting in Dunedin, he inherits a squad nobody wanted and a city that has stopped believing. What he builds is less a football team than a reckoning — with the city, with himself, and with the question of whether a man can finally come home to something he was never sure was his.
Get Ted
A botched extraction, a very wrong address, and New Zealand's most iconic footballer — who has absolutely no interest in being rescued. What was supposed to be a clean job becomes a cross-country fever dream in which three cousins discover that getting Ted is the least of their problems. Keeping him is the job. And Ted has opinions.
Incarnation
1859. A Māori youth is taken from the Hokianga by Bishop Pompallier to study for the priesthood at Rome's Pontifical Urban College. From the misted shores of home to the marble courtyards of the Church, he must wrestle with the collision of faith, culture and belonging — before he can find his way back.
