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Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis is one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most famous actors, starring in such films as The Piano, Three Kings, Training Day, Blow, Whale Rider, Runaway Jury, Collateral Damage, The Fountain, and River Queen. We met Cliff at a Marae in his home town of Rotoura our first night in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Cliff Curtis videos

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For actor Cliff Curtis, the notion of oneness evokes both suspicion and hope. Politically and economically, oneness has been used to justify the elimination of diversity.

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Storytelling

Actor Cliff Curtis explains how, from his perspective, storytelling is a form of activism.

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Indigenous People's Role in Media

Actor Cliff Curtis explains how global media, a tool developed in service of imperialism, can be a vehicle for indigenous content, for stories that remind contemporary cultures of their own humanity.

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Why Not?

Actor Cliff Curtis asks, If a small group of English could change the world through colonization, what would happen if humanity as a whole decided to choose a different course?

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Industrialization, Imperialism and Colonization

Actor Cliff Curtis offers the perspective that the trinity of industrialization, imperialism and colonialism served an important function by linking humanity closely together.

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We are all indigenous to this planet.

Cliff Curtis
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