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Highlight for Week 20, 2008 - May 12th to 18th

NATIVE AFFAIRS (CURRENT AFFAIRS) - Monday, May 12th at 8p.m.
Julian Wilcox presents regional and national stories from a Maori perspective as well as international indigenous news.  

KETE ARONUI (ARTS) - Tuesday, May 13th at 8p.m.
The best artists in Aotearoa talk frankly about their work and their sources of inspiration in this stunning contemporary art series.  Tonight: Sculptor Robert Jahnke talks about the bicultural issues and protest that lie at the centre of his art.

THIS IS WHERE MY DOG IS BURIED (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) - Tuesday, May 13th at 8:30p.m.
A former Israeli soldier retraces events that forced to make the ultimate choice – to kill or be killed.  The director’s autobiographical account from when he lived as a settler in the Golan Heights.

HYUNDAI CODE (SPORTS) - Thursday, May 15th at 8:30p.m.
Join Tawera Nikau and Jenny-May Coffin in New Zealand’s award-winning sports programme live from Maori Television’s Auckland studio. Check out the great guests, captivating korero and comical capers of ‘Brofessionals’ Matua Parkinson and Glen Osborne.

HOMAI TE PAKIPAKI - Friday, May 16th at 8:30p.m.
Maori Television’s interactive karaoke series live from its Auckland studio. Viewers vote for the winners of the weekly $1000 prize plus the chance to compete in the final for $10,000.

NGA WAIATA O TE IWI - Sunday, May 18th at 8:30p.m.
Te Raumawhitu Kupenga presents this series that looks at Maori composers and the songs we love to hear and sing.  Tonight: Sir Apirana Ngata and his composition ‘He Putiputi Koe’, plus Brannigan Kaa in the studio.

SORRY FOR THE KUNG FU (FEATURE FILM) - Sunday, May 18th at 9p.m.
Croatian Comedy. At the end of the Slavic wars, a pregnant young woman returns from Germany to her village in Croatia. Unbeknownst to her family the child she is carrying was fathered by an Asian.

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