The wrap photo for the battered and bruised team following an intense shoot! We were back in Gisborne for a long weekend of retakes and pickups for Amiri’s Child. The youth gang scene has certainly proved one of the most difficult sequences in Amiri’s Child. It is a dramatic turning point in the story and following a feedback from preview audiences and industry colleagues, I have taken this opportunity to develop Miriama’s character with a back story and d...

David Whittet's radio interview ...

Miriama achieves celebrity status in a montage sequence at the conclusion of Amiri’s Child. It is now almost a decade since I first started work on Amiri & Aroha. When I plotted the story and wrote the first drafts, in what seems a lifetime ago, I had no knowledge that my work would prove so topical and create a political stir. Read our Press Release and watch the scene that has provoked such an unexpected reaction. credit David Whittet Films ...