Film

Broken Barrier

Director

Roger Mirams

Year

1952

A white boy... a maori girl. Facing the challenge of prejudice!

Tom Sullivan, a young Pakeha journalist researching a series of exploitative, tabloid articles on "the" Maori people becomes a casual labourer on a Mahia Peninsular farm. The emotional liaison he forms with Rawi, a young Maori woman exposes the racism engendered by the particular social attitudes and expectations of that time.