The Voyager's Legacy

Māoriland Charitable Trust | Film

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Overview

The Voyager’s Legacy is a short film drama written and directed by rangatahi filmmaker Bailey Poching. It centres on three Samoan children in 1970’s Ponsonby who escape their increasingly frightening reality into an imaginary fantasy world. 

Set during the time of the Dawn Raids, The Voyagers Legacy follows the three youngest children of a Samoan family, as they reimagine their bustling Ponsonby home as a magical, whimsical fairytale world of swords and sorcery. 

 

HOW WE GOT HERE

During lockdown 2020, I pitched The Voyager’s Legacy to Māoriland and was selected to participate in the Ngā Pakiaka Incubator Programme (NPIP). I participated in a number of development workshops through NPIP from our family home to make The Voyagers Legacy the best film possible. Through NPIP I’ve received partial funding from Māoriland and the NZ Film Commission to make the film. 

In December we were able to shoot a portion of the Voyager’s Legacy - but to finish it - we need your help!

The money raised in this campaign will assist with the cost of lenses and lighting gear, and hopefully, we can raise enough money for essential post-production costs. 

With your help, we can tell this important story to the world!

 

ABOUT ME

Talofa! O lo’u igoa Bailey Poching and I am the writer/director of The Voyager’s Legacy. I am of Māori and Samoan descent. Growing up I always felt a strong impulse to tell stories - be it drawing my own home-made comic books or writing short stories. I remember watching an old French movie in Film Studies at 16 and being blindsided when it made me cry. I realised that a film, when made with conviction, can reach across boundaries of time, culture and language. My dream is to offer something of my own experience and to tell new, different stories about brown Pacific people. 

 

OUR TEAM

Our team includes Ryan Alexander Lloyd (Cinematographer), Ian Leaupepe (1st AD), Samson Rambo, and Ngā Pakiaka! (Oriwa Hakaraia, Kararaina Ngatai Melbourne). We received support from Tainui Stephens, Ricardo Giraldo, Desray Armstrong, Karakwenhawi Zoe Hopkins, Ianeta Le'i and Bird Runningwater.

The Voyager's Legacy is produced by Libby Hakaraia, Matilda Poasa and Madeleine Hakaraia de Young for Māoriland Productions.

The Voyager's Legacy is part of the Ngā Pakiaka Incubator Project (NPIP). NPIP was developed by Māoriland during Lockdown to support rangatahi filmmakers to produce their first professional short films. The first eight in NPIP are Aree Kapa, Oriwa Hakaraia, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Kararaina Ngatai-Melbourne, Te Waiarangi Ratana, Bailey Poching, Tiana Trego Hall and Te Mahara Tamehana. All eight filmmakers have personal creative goals to become feature filmmakers and share Indigenous stories on the big screen. Under NPIP, this talented rangatahi have received one-on-one mentorship from industry experts from across the Indigenous filmmaking sector, craft development opportunities, workshops, and industry placements. With your help, NPIP will grow Aotearoa's film industry with;

  • Eight new short films from rangatahi Māori directors
  • 24 rangatahi receiving on set training
  • Two rangatahi Producers (Māori & Sāmoan)
  • Two reo Māori films
  • Pilot for Māori web-series (Manu Masters)
  • Proof of concept for rangatahi Māori feature film (Ruarangi)

 

Please support our film! Together we'll be sharing a piece of history from the eyes of rangatahi to the world!

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Donors

  • Maraea Poching

  • Travis Conway

  • Jeanette Papali'i

  • Anonymous

  • Tim Dennis

    These Voices and stories need to be here for our generations to pass on

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Project Updates

Completed, Shot, Picture Locked, Graded, Mixed!

Mālō family!!

It’s been a while since we last updated you on The Voyager’s Legacy and we know you’re as excited as we are about bringing it to the big screen. I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about the short film so I wanted to take some time to answer them!

The film is completed, shot, picture locked, graded and mixed, and now awaits the final step of mastering from our friends at the Dept. of Post. As you can tell, filmmaking can be a long, windy and complicated process, but I can assure you we’ve made a film that we’re incredibly proud of, and excited to share with our community.

This story is rooted in who we are, and the stories we tell ourselves, and I can only hope that we’ve done it justice. It is dedicated to our ancestors, our family, and all immigrants who have been made to feel unwelcome in their own home.

I’d like to take this opportunity to, once again (and certainly not for the last time) thank every single one of you that donated and helped to bring this story to life! From our generous donors, to our families and friends that provided food, shelter, support, costume, old photographs, stories and beautiful beautiful energy. This whole thing would have been impossible without you.

We're not too far away from announcing when the film can be screened, and you guys will be the first to hear when we do!! Until then,

Alofa atu,

Bailey Poching

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