With Mahana (aka The Patriarch), Lee Tamahori has brought together some of New Zealand’s finest talent for his first film on home ground since 1996’s Once Were Warriors.

Temuera Morrison talks about his new movie Mahana. Rotorua actor Temuera Morrison says everyone will want to go and shear a sheep after his new movie, Mahana, comes out today. Speaking to the ...

Once Were Warriors ... now we are feuding sheep shearers. Temuera Morrison plays a very different kind of hard man in this 60s family saga, the first film director Lee Tamahori has made in New ...

1960s, East Coast of New Zealand. Two M?ori sheep-shearing families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, are longstanding enemies and commercial rivals. 14-year-old Simeon Mahana (Akuhata Keefe), the ...