How Kōkā put a Matariki twist on the classic road movie

How Kōkā put a Matariki twist on the classic road movie

Alex Casey talks to Kōkā director Kath Akuhata-Brown about crafting an intergenerational road movie like no other.  On a frantic search for a last minute location on the East Cape, Kath Akuhata-Brown (Ngāti Porou) was driving around aimlessly until a silhouette stopped her dead in their tracks – a single towering pōhutakawa tree atop a giant hill the middle of a field. “We were standing on the road, and we looked at each other and said ‘that’s w…