Te Po Uriuri / The Enveloping Night

DIRECTORS NOTES - Toby Mills This film is inspired by a Shakespearean sonnet. Sonnet 147 My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease; Feeding on that which doth...
New Zealand Production
Short 2001 Drama 14.00 minutes
Film Main Image 743
A young warrior becomes dangerously obsessed when his lover, a high-born Chief's daughter, marries her arranged husband.
2001 - MIC Homegrown Programme New Zealand
2002 - Official Selection Hamburg International Film Festival
Official Selection MIC Homegrown New Zealand Film Festival

Directors

Toby Mills

Producers

Norman Elder
Toby Mills

Screenplay Writers

Toby Mills

Cast

Wetini Mitai
Awatea
Wairemana Campbell
Te Po
Wi Kuki Kaa
Te Atakura

Crew

Waka Attewell | DOP
Ken Sparks | Editor

Production Company

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