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Highlight for Week 50, 2007 - Dec 10th to 16th

ITI POUNAMU (NZ SHORT FILMS) - Monday, Dec 10th at 9:30p.m.
The Bar: Observations of contemporary life – set in a bar. Presented by filmmakers Ainsley Gardiner and Tearepa Kahi with studio guest, director and co-producer Dorthe Scheffmann.

THE WINDS OF HOME (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) - Tuesday, Dec 11th at 8:30p.m.
Part of the Family series; directed by Tainui Stephens. Looks at the life of the Hau family of Hokianga and how they combine a strong commitment to Maori cultural traditions with the demands of contemporary living.

NGA RIPO - Wednesday, Dec 12th at 8p.m.
The late Apikara Rarere (Rongomaiwahine, Ngapuhi) was a top-rating breakfast DJ for Te Reo Irirangi o Kahungungu at age 88, and showed her mokopuna how to put down hangi, planted rongoa gardens on her marae and danced to Maori showbands. 

BROKEN JOURNEY (NZ DOCO) - Wednesday, Dec 12th at 8:30p.m.
Back by popular demand. A visual biography of an acclaimed Maori woman writer, Jacqueline Cecelia Sturm (Taranaki, Whakatohea), now aged 80 – one of the first Maori women to graduate from university. 

NBL: HARVEY NORMAN NZ BREAKERS - Thursday, Dec 13th at 8p.m.
repeats Saturday December 15 at 1.30 PMSuperstars of Australia’s Hummer Championship feature in this annual showcase from Melbourne – the 2007 National Basketball League All-Star Game. NZ Breakers star Kirk Penney is the first New Zealander ever to be selected to play in an All-Star side. 

MAORIOKE - Friday, Dec 14th at 8:30p.m.
repeats Sunday December 16 at 4.00 PMAfter weeks of tense and sometimes tearful auditions along with five tightly contested semi-finals, it is grand final time on the popular nationwide talent show – a 90-minute special where seven finalists get to perform with a live band for the $10,000 grand prize.

KAITIAKI - Saturday, Dec 15th at 7p.m.
New! An inside look at environmental issues from a uniquely Maori perspective, highlighting the ways in which whanau, hapu and iwi work as active kaitiaki of the environment. Tonight: Water pollution in Raglan.

KAI ORA (FOOD) - Sunday, Dec 16th at 7p.m.
The Maori queen of cuisine, Anne Thorp, whisks up titi orzo and her signature dish – roasted pork belly’n’puha – for her illustrious guests, Professor Wharehuia and Niwa Milroy, and Scotty and Stacey Morrison.

TOY LOVE (SUNDAY FEATURE) - Sunday, Dec 16th at 9p.m.
The third feature film from Kiwi writer/director Harry Sinclair is a comedy about sex and infidelity. Love is a game for Ben (Dean O’Gorman) who lies and cheats on his girlfriend Emily (Marissa Stott) with the greatest of ease. 

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