https://www.illumingati.com/films daily 0.75 2024-08-12 https://www.illumingati.com/films/a-morning-with-aroha monthly 0.5 2024-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/78f405f4-b96f-4deb-b69a-bb7e3172cc95/Screen+Shot+2024-08-02+at+9.26.32+PM.png Films - A Morning With Aroha - Synopsis The day starts differently for Aroha today. She is a girl on a mission, in the darkness of her room, she packs her back, with all her important needs for her day ahead. Aroha makes her way out into the chilly morning. She stands in the driveway, she knows where she is going. We don’t see what she is doing, but as the morning takes light, her urgency increases. At the same time movement in her house. Lights flick on, doors open and close, muffled conversations happen. Dad leaves for work. Aroha carries on with her project. Mum calls for Maria to get up and get her sister ready too. Aroha is not in the house. Where could she be? The park? She chased a butterfly there yesterday. The lake? She likes feeding the ducks. Mum and Maria split up, they search the neighbourhood. Aroha looks at her project as the sun climbs over the hills. Sun streams down the street. Aroha hears a call from behind her. Maria has found her. Aroha happy with her work, packs her back ready to go home. But not before casting a magic spell. Maria expresses that everyone is unhappy with Aroha, and she is making everyone late for work and school. They get home to a very unhappy mum. Maria walks Aroha to school. They walk the street where Maria found her that morning. Maria, earbuds in, texting and scanning Instagram, doesn’t take notice of the ahppy talkative Aroha. Aroha stops to talk to people outside their homes. Maria turns to see Aroha is no longer at her side. Aroha is watching as the neighbours interact with her creations. The street comes to life with imagination and play. Happy, Aroha carries on with her day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/bb51e250-df42-4e1d-9d8b-d72648a37b3a/Screen+Shot+2024-08-02+at+9.18.55+PM.png Films - A Morning With Aroha - Introducing Iti Pounamu Peyroux as Aroha Hineteariki McCorkindale as Maria Anaru Barton as Dad and Amanda Billing as Mum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/1723153515589-AAKCZ16889D5GA635VSM/IMG_7643.jpeg Films - A Morning With Aroha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/1723153506384-ZMW0AS7FSQA00YFYCR1C/IMG_7647+%281%29.jpeg Films - A Morning With Aroha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/1723153552147-R0D7K3T2OOXPXAIC4J2A/IMG_7661.jpeg Films - A Morning With Aroha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/1723153547533-OHE5YJMWWJ4KY8VXEBTJ/IMG_7688.jpeg Films - A Morning With Aroha https://www.illumingati.com/films/koro monthly 0.5 2024-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/6be71eb6-4797-4814-9236-b4ceb513d763/Screen+Shot+2024-08-05+at+4.19.49+PM.png Films - Koro - Synopsis Koro sits in his car. War medals, pinned to his suit, lie in his lap. He is lost in the thought of another ANZAC service. Koro’s thoughts are interrupted when his grandsons, Whenua and Soul, bang into the car, fighting over Whenua’s phone. The phone pumps out battle sounds from a digital war game. The sounds of war jar Koro’s memory of his days in the jungle during the Vietnam war, and he is catapulted back to that time, the fear and torment move him to find a safe haven. But, Whenua and Soul get caught in the crossfire of Koro’s memories, as Koro tries to protect his comrades, Timoti and Maaka. Soul and Whenua are confused, shaken and injured, while Koro feels anguish and shame that he has not protected them. A new day dawns for Koro and his whānau. Soul joins Koro in his car and reconciles the events from yesterday, forgiving Koro for hurting him. As Soul and Whenua leave on the school bus, Koro joins them, hoping to make it to the dawn ANZAC service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/1723166049009-4TGQ25D7CTHOK49VOQVX/Screen+Shot+2024-08-05+at+4.15.52+PM.png Films - Koro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/1723166051953-D25KO7HU0Y0QMF7JZWI3/Screen+Shot+2024-08-05+at+4.15.42+PM.png Films - Koro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/1723167345203-ZFDQXJLTMG5YAYSCIKFR/Screen+Shot+2024-08-09+at+1.34.53+PM.png Films - Koro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dafe5746c3c4384afb42d4/7679784e-7795-4ffc-b791-ff7f673251ed/Screen+Shot+2024-08-05+at+4.16.26+PM.jpg Films - Koro - Introducing Soul Gates-Paul (middle) as Soul Whenua Peri (right) as Whenua Nicky Gates-Paul as (left) Susan and Jim Moriarty as Koro [Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Kanungunu] Jim Moriarty's screen career has ranged from 70s soap Close to Home and Rowley Habib's The Protestors, to starring in mock- doco The Waimate Conspiracy and playing Dad in The Strength of Water. 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