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Highlight for Week 44, 2007 - Oct 29th to Nov 4th

KAITIAKI O TE MAUNGARONGO - Monday, Oct 29th at 8p.m.
Māori Television’s inside look at policing from a uniquely Māori perspective . In tonight’s second season premiere, we join the Hamilton police as they clamp down on boy racers and see how Sergeant Frazer of the Taupo police manages the Taupo cycle challenge with over 11,000 participants.

ITI POUNAMU (NZ SHORT FILMS) - Monday, Oct 29th at 9:30p.m.
Filmmakers Ainsley Gardiner and Tearepa Kahi host this series which features short films every week followed by a critique from the presenters and interviews with filmmakers or industry professionals.Watermark: A young girl discovers that sometimes what you're looking for is different to what you find.

WAKA REO (LANGUAGE) - Tuesday, Oct 30th at 8p.m.
Along with learning reo Māori, the remaining 10 contestants face more physical challenges as well as living in isolation.  There’s $10,000 at stake so it’s no wonder that tempers flare in the waka ama challenge.

THE MAGIC TOUCH (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) - Tuesday, Oct 30th at 8:30p.m.
The fairytale image of the Cirque du Soleil has reached audiences around the world but the public knows very little about the person who has created many of its fabulous costumes: Dominique Lemieux. This documentary offers a unique insight into the imagination of this flamboyant artist.

THE LOST WAKA (NZ DOCUMENTARY) - Wednesday, Oct 31st at 9:30p.m.
This hour long documentary follows former Māori Language Commissioner, Professor Patu Hohepa, and wife Erena as they travel to Rennell (Mu Ngiki) and Bellona (Mu Nggava) in search of the ‘lost waka’ – the link in the geneology, mythology and lapita design between Māori and the people of these islands.

NBL: HARVEY NORMAN NZ BREAKERS - Thursday, Nov 1st at 8p.m.
repeats Saturday November 3 at 1.30 PMThe brilliant Brisbane Bullets are up against the Harvey Norman Breakers. The Breakers will have home court advantage in this round seven showdown of Australia’s Hummer Championship NBL.

MĀORI REGIONAL SPORTS AWARDS 2007 - Friday, Nov 2nd at 8p.m.
Exclusive coverage of sports awards ceremonies held by iwi throughout the country. Tonight: The sporting achievements of athletes, coaches, administrators and supporters from Te Arawa.

MĀORIOKE - Friday, Nov 2nd at 8:30p.m.
The best and the bravest from around the motu summon their vocal talents to try and wow the MĀORIOKE judging panel of Brannigan Kaa, Whirimako Black and Betty-Anne Monga. Tonight, the southern talent gets an outing and the chance to go forward to the semifinals.

MAUMAHARA - Saturday, Nov 3rd at 8p.m.
Women: The nostalgic kaumatua show remembers the women who shaped the lives of some of today’s kaumatua as children and the challenges Māori women faced in the 1930s and 40s. Reflect on the fashions, dance crazes and fads of yesteryear.

2007 GILLETTE FUSION SERIES: KIWIS V GREAT BRITAIN - Sunday, Nov 4th at 12p.m.
Delayed coverage of yesterday’s (Nov 3) second test between New Zealand and Great Britain at Kingston Communications Stadium in Hull, UK.

MARAMATAKA - Sunday, Nov 4th at 5:30p.m.
More than a gardening series, MARAMATAKA is heavily laden with Māori lifestyle and cultural content, exploring how the necessities of life and the creativity of Māori artists, artisans, carers, weavers and healers have been guided by this ancient seasonal cycle 

BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (SUNDAY FEATURE) - Sunday, Nov 4th at 9p.m.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, Before Night Falls is a richly imagined journey into the life and writings of the brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas. Before Night Falls spans the whole of Arenas' life, from his rural childhood and his early embrace of the Revolution to the persecution he would later experience as a writer and homosexual in Castro's Cuba; from his departure from Cuba in the Mariel Harbor exodus of 1980 to his exile and death in the United States.  

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