Taratoa Stappard

A Māori filmmaker from Hawera, Aotearoa New Zealand, Taratoa Stappard has directed six short films screened at festivals including BFI London and Māoriland, and a half-hour film, Taumanu (Reclaim) (2021). Mārama is his debut feature, developed with support from the New Zealand Film Commission, imagineNATIVE, The Black List, and the Berlinale Co-Production Market. He has described it as the first film in a planned trilogy of Māori gothic horror stories about colonial violence met with Indigenous retribution.