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Maori Dialog Favored in Warner Bros’ New Zealand Series ‘Tangata Pai’
Production has begun on 'Tangata Pai,' a Warner Bros. Discovery-backed drama series with 30% of its dialog in the Maori language.
The eight-part series tells the stories of five people whose worlds collide when a bomb is detonated at a peaceful Māori protest against a license to mine a sacred site. It was co-written by McNaughton, Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen (“Giving up the Ghost,” “Kāinga”), Briar Grace Smith (“Fishskin Suit,” “The Price of Water,” “Cousins”) and Hamish Bennett (“Bellbird,” “Uproar”). McNaughton’s creation of “Tangata Pai” granted him selection to participate in an inaugural showrunners incubator program run by the U.S.-based Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment.
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