1. A2 Film Studies FM4 Varieties of Film Experience
Urban Stories: Power, Poverty & Conflict
Case study 1: Once Were Warriors – New Zealand
Contextual exercise
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori, read the article about the
Maori people and answer the following questions:
1. Approximately, by what year had the Maoris arrived in New Zealand?
2. What is the Maori name for New Zealand?
3. When did Europeans begin to arrive in New Zealand?
4. What did the Europeans bring with them which disrupted Maori life?
5. Where did the Maoris come from?
6. What led to Britain annexing (or taking over) New Zealand?
7. What was the purpose of the Native Land Acts?
8. What happened to the Maori and European population numbers between
1840 – 1896?
9. Where do the majority of Maori people live and what is the result of this?
10. Has the experience of European settlement and colonisation in New Zealand
been a positive or negative experience for the Maori people?

2. A2 Film Studies FM4 Varieties of Film Experience
Urban Stories: Power, Poverty & Conflict
Case study 1: Once Were Warriors – New Zealand
Power Poverty Conflict
Which What types of What types of
characters / poverty conflict do we
groups hold (financial, see? (violent /
power? emotional) do emotional /
we see? sexual
violence)
Who benefits Which
from the Which characters /
exercise of characters / groups are the
this power? groups are aggressors?
affected by
poverty?
(ethnicity /
Who loses gender / class Which
from the / age) characters /
exercise of group are the
this power? victims?