Description:
Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, he joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later. Making international award-winning commercials for 10 years, he has also directed several TV series. His first feature film, Once Were Warriors (1994), won the PEN First Book Award.
Birthday
April 22, 1950
Born In
Wellington, New Zealand
Parents
Phillip Tamahori
Relatives
Renaye Tamahori (Sibling)
Trivia
His father is Maori, his mother is British.
Quotes
Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.
Trademarks
Progresses the film through fast-paced visuals
