Kai Pūrākau – The Storyteller

Booker Prize-winning author New Zealand Keri Hulme is profiled in this 1987 documentary short from Gaylene Preston. With cinematography by Leon Narbey (Whale Rider).

'(Kai Pūrākau – The Storyteller) is both a poetic travelogue of Ōkārito (the township where she resided for 40 years), and a sampler-box of affable musings on her writing process, whitebait fishing, the supernatural, and the 1200 pages of notes for her next novel, the elusive Bait. Leon Narbey's camerawork is aptly alert to the magical qualities of the coast, from the resident kotuku to the surf and birdsong peppering Hulme’s crib.' (NZ on Screen - Iwi Whitiāhua)

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