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Ray Waru

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Raymond Richard WaruMNZM(born 1952) is a New ZealandMāoriradio andtelevision director and producer.

Early life

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Waru spent his childhood inAuckland.He was educated atSt Peter's College.

Career

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Waru obtained positions in radio and television from the 1970s. In 1980, he headed the originalTelevision New ZealandMāoriproduction unit. Waru directed a broad range of Māori programmes, including the first ever fullMāori languagedrama project,Te Ohaki a Nihe,andTe Māori, A Cloak of WordsandTe Māori - Te Hokinga Maion theTe Māoriexhibition.[1][2]

In the 1980s Waru produced and directed a revolutionary documentary series,The Natural World of the Māori,various film and television productions in New Zealand and in Australia, as well as anIMAXproduction under theEast-West CenterinHawaii.In the 1980s he was appointed as chief executive of theAotearoa Māori Radio Trust,charged with the development of a national Māori radio system.

In the 1990s Waru was co-producer of the major history series,Our People, Our Century,a winner at the 2000New Zealand Film and TV Awards,and he producedToro Mai,a 25-part serial drama inte reo.[3]

In 2005 Waru co-produced the New Zealand historical series,Frontier of Dreams, The Story of New Zealand[4]

In the2006 Queen's Birthday Honours,Waru was appointed aMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit,for services to radio and television.[5]

In 2012 Waru published "Secrets & Treasures" which consists of "stories told through the objects atArchives New Zealand"[6]and which "delves into the archives to tell a very human story of New Zealand, a story that involves love, death, war, immigration, disaster, protest, defiance, censorship and hokey pokey".[7]

References

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  1. ^NZ On Screen."Ray Waru".nzonscreen.Retrieved28 September2024.
  2. ^NZ On Screen."Koha - Te Māori, a Cloak of Words".nzonscreen.Retrieved28 September2024.
  3. ^TVNZ web site: the making ofFrontier of Dreams.
  4. ^Bronwyn Dalley & Gavin McLean,Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New ZealandHodder Moa, 2006, p. 9.
  5. ^"Queen's Birthday honours list 2006".Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2006.Retrieved4 May2020.
  6. ^Ray Waru,Secrets & treasures: our stories told through the objects at Archives New Zealand,Random House, Glenfield, Auckland, 2012 (ISBN9781869796891).
  7. ^Secrets and treasures,Back cover.