There’s probably no better time to talk to a filmmaker than the day after a successful film premiere. Packing the Event Chartwell cinema with over 1,300 people, the New Zealand premiere of Ka Whawhai Tonu – Struggle Without End won’t be an experience the film’s director, Michael Jonathan, will forget.
“Last night was crazy good,” Jonathan confirmed “I’ve never experienced anything like that before in my life. I mean, it’s my first feature film. It’s on my iwi home soil and the place where I grew up in Gordonton, Hukanui Marae of Ngāti Wairere, the hapū, my grounds of the Kīngitanga, in Waikato.”
