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Tuesday 7 July 2020

Winter Learning Journey ~ Taika Waititi/Pepha

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, Director, Actor and a comedian. He has produced and/or a number of popular films including, Boy, Hunt For the Wilderpeople, and Thor: Ragnarok. Taika Waititi lived in Raukokore which is a small town on the east coast of new zealand, when Taika Waititi graduated from secondary school he then moved to Wellington to study drama at Victoria University, despite moving away Taika has never forgotten his family or his roots ( Where he comes from).

Talking about roots, Taika comes from a culturally diverse family, his father is Maori (Te Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is Russian/Jewish on the other hand, am Pakeha (New Zealand European). Most of the ancestors are from England.









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