Riwia Brown
| Riwia Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | New Zealand |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, playwright |
Riwia Brown is a playwright and the award winning screenwriter of the cult classic movie Once Were Warriors (1994) from New Zealand.[1] The Once Were Warriors screenplay, adapted from the book of the same name by Alan Duff, gained Brown the Best Screenplay award at the 1994 New Zealand Film and TV Awards.[2] Brown has written for theatre, television and films. Brown is from a creative family. Her brother Apirana Taylor is a poet, story-teller and musician. Her other siblings Rangimoana Taylor and Hania Stewart are also theatre practitioners.[3]
Playwright
Brown has written a number of plays since she began working in theatre during the 1980s. Her first play was Roimata (1988) which debuted in Wellington[4] and later adapted for television and published in He Reo Hou, a collection of Maori plays. Her play Nga Wahine (The Women) (1997) was adapted from the stage to television and featured Nancy Brunning in the lead role. In television, she wrote for the supernatural series Mataku and Taonga:Treasures of Our Past. She was a co-writer of the American film The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003).
References
- ↑ Maslin, Janet (February 24, 1995). "Once Were Warriors (1994) FILM REVIEW; For a Family, the War at Home". The New York Times.
- ↑ Playmarket.org Playmarket, New Zealand Playwrights' Agency
- ↑ NZine
- ↑ Google Books Pacific Islands writing: the postcolonial literatures of Aotearoa/NZ and Oceania by Michelle Keown, p.215. Retrieved 9 November 2009