September 03, 2014
Crowdsource funds sought for Ihimaera film
Once Were Warriors director Lee Tamahori wants ordinary New Zealanders to fund the last 5 percent of what will be his second New Zealand film.
Tamahori headed for Hollywood after the success of Warriors and made hits like the James Bond movie Die Another Day and the Morgan Freeman film Along Came A Spider.
Now he wants to come back to make The Patriarch, based on Witi Ihimera’s novel Bulibasha about generational conflict in an East Coast Maori family in the 1950s.
It will reunite many of the Warriors team, including producer Robin Scholes and actor Temuera Morrison.
The goal is to raise $500,000 through crowd funding platform Snowball Effect so that Tamahori can start work on the film in December
Scholes says Snowball investors will get first priority to recoup their capital as well as being named in the film credits, invitations to the set during filming and invitations to the film's premier.
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