The next Whale Rider or Dark Horse could be in the movie-making pipeline if efforts to establish a Tairāwhiti regional film office here are successful.
Tairāwhiti-based producer and director Tee Wells, of Tairāwhiti Film Office, has started working on a regional film office (RFO) feasibility study after securing funding from Trust Tairāwhiti.
Internationally acclaimed movies such as Whale Rider, The Dark Horse and The Bounty have been shot in Tairāwhiti.
With that history and the number of creatives who live here, Wells is confident a permanent RFO would work well here.
