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Warren Lee Tamahori (/ ˌ t ɑː m ə ˈ h ɔː r i /; born 17 June 1950) is a New Zealand film director. He is known for directing the films Once Were Warriors (1994), Along Came a Spider (2001) and Die Another Day (2002).
Lee Tamahori. Director: Once Were Warriors. Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, he joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later.
Guy Pearce stars in Lee Tamahori’s story about a lay preacher in New Zealand stuck between two warring Maori tribes.
Lee Tamahori. Director: Once Were Warriors. Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, he joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later.
Jun 14, 2024 · Thirty years after breaking through with his debut feature Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori has made The Convert, a film that completes a trilogy he always intended to make – without knowing exactly what it would be about. Warriors catapulted him into Hollywood, a step that, then aged in his mid-40s, he was more than ready to take.
Lee Tamahori - Lee Tamahori worked his way up the filmmaking ranks, before debuting as a feature director with 1994's Once Were Warriors. The portrait of a violent marriage became the most successful film in Kiwi history, and won international acclaim.
With Mahana (aka The Patriarch), Lee Tamahori has brought together some of New Zealand’s finest talent for his first film on home ground since 1996’s. Once Were Warriors.
