Briar Grace-Smith

Briar Grace-Smith is an award-winning writer of scripts, screenplays and short stories from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre company He Ara Hou. Early plays Don't Call Me Bro and Flat Out Brown, were first performed at the Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington in 1996.Waitapu, a play written by Grace-Smith, was devised by He Ara Hou and performed by the group on the Native Earth Performing Arts tour in Canada in 1996. Her first major play Nga Pou Wahine earned her the 1995 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Grace-Smith won Best New Zealand Play at the 1997 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for Purapurawhetu, called "a new classic of New Zealand theatre" by New Zealand Listener. The play also toured to Canada and Greece. In 2000, she received the Arts Foundation Laureate Award. In 1993 she was Writer-in-Residence at Massey University, and in 2003, she was Writers' Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington.

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'Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen': Film Review

The Hollywood Reporter 10 Feb 2019

... where Mita was an advisor and the artistic director of the Sundance Institute Native Lab, nurturing emerging Indigenous talent and where an annual fellowship is now awarded in her name (this year’s recipients are New Zealanders Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith)....

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Sundance's Merata Mita Fellowship Awarded to Kiwis

Scoop 28 Jan 2019

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) congratulates Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith on receiving the 2019 Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship announced at the Sundance Film Festival today. Selected from a global call for applicants, Gardiner ... ....

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Queen's Birthday Honours 2018 - the full list

TVNZ 03 Jun 2018

The New Zealand Order of Merit. DNZM. Source. 1 NEWS. To be Dames Companion of the said Order .. Ms Catherine Alice Healy . For services to the rights of sex workers. The Honourable Luamanuvao Winifred Alexandra Laban, QSO ... Ms Julie Bethridge Topp, MNZM ... KNZM ... Ms Briar Grace-Smith ... Dr Katherine Julie Saville-Smith ... Ms Deborah Jane Smith ... ....

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Local students named to University of Kentucky fall 2017 Dean's List

The Paducah Sun 15 Feb 2018

Whitlock, Gregory Willett, Jonathon Smith, Madison Wilferd, Camryn Kennemore, William Garrett Bell, Kylie Paige Carrico, Meredith Fickey, Natalie Ford, Jordan Garcia, Ryan Anthony Harpole, Kevin Say Hernandez, Marcus Lee Irvan, William Logan Jefferson, Grant D ... Foust, Maryanna Grace Frazier, Karson G ... Smith, Tyler D. Stoffel, Briar C....

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Waru: The nine female Maori filmmakers united in their passion to start a conversation

Stuff 21 Oct 2017

Vendetta Films. Waru opens in New Zealand cinemas on October 19. Stunning audiences at both the New Zealand and Toronto International Film Festivals, Waru is one of the most important and innovative Kiwi films in years ... "It was created with a desire to challenge perceptions and to start conversations." ... 10 am ... READ MORE. ... Briar Grace-Smith (Charm)....

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The Questionnaire: Rawiri Paratene

Stuff 20 Oct 2017

... for many decades John Gibson and George Henare, I admire Nancy Brunning, Rachel House and Briar Grace Smith — just three of the impressive Māori theatricians that have taken NZ Theatre forward, I admire Taika Waititi and Cliff Curtis who are outstanding models for young Māori....

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Waru: Why this Kiwi drama might just be the best film of 2017

Stuff 16 Oct 2017

Vendetta Films. Waru opens in New Zealand cinemas on October 19. Waru (M, 86 mins) Directed by Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi, Paula Jones and Awanui Simich-Pene ★★★★★. Waru is composed of eight scenes, each 10 minutes or so long ... The Waru film-makers are all women ... Waru needs no qualifiers....

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Waru: Why this Kiwi drama might just be the best movie of 2017

Stuff 16 Oct 2017

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‘Waru’: Film Review | TIFF 2017

The Hollywood Reporter 13 Sep 2017

In the first, directed by Briar Grace-Smith, the middle-aged Charm is directing food preparation for the mourners like an army sergeant ... Briar Grace-Smith, Ainsley Gardiner, Renae Maihi, Casey Kaa, Awanui Simich-Pene, Chelsea Cohen, Katie Wolfe, Paula Jones ... Briar Grace-Smith, ......

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Hutt photographer recognised for excellence in Māori arts

Stuff 27 Aug 2017

Lucy Swinnen. Te Waka Toi Awards 2017. Chevron Te Whetumatarau Hassett. Artist Chevron Te Whetumatarau Hassett's work is always deeply personal ... READ MORE. ... * Wellington's Toi Māori Art Market arrives ... Hassett and Briar Grace-Smith were the two recipients of the Ngā Manu Pīrere, recognising achievement by a young Māori artist at an early career stage....

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Us Two: Loading Docs' East Meets East director Julie Zhu and producer Tema Pua

Stuff 26 Aug 2017

Julie Zhu, 24, and Tema Pua, 23, are the duo behind East Meets East, a short film starring Zhu's 79-year-old grandmother Fang Ruzhen, who emigrated to Auckland from China 17 year ago ... Zhu, the film's director, and Pua, the producer, both live in Auckland. TEMA. Julie and I met at university ... * NZIFF. A day in the life of Waru director Briar Grace-Smith....

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Toronto Film Festival Adds International Films, Talks With Angelina Jolie and Javier Bardem

The Wrap 22 Aug 2017

The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival completed its lineup on Tuesday with about 40 new films, plus conversations with Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, Javier Bardem and Gael Garcia Bernal ... 17 ... “Waru,” Briar Grace-Smith, Ainsley Gardiner, Renae Maihi, Casey Kaa, Awanui Simich-Pene, Chelsea Cohen, Katie Wolfe, Paula Jones, New Zealand....

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NZ writers rewarded for their extraordinary legacy

Stuff 03 Aug 2017

READ MORE. ... * Academy of NZ Literature launched ... The selection panel, made up of Rachael King, Nicola Legat, David Eggleton and Briar Grace-Smith, described Witi as one of New Zealand's most important post-colonial writers, who had consistently proved to be an outstanding storyteller, celebrated as a voice for Maoritanga and a literary leader....