- Country: Denmark, New Zealand, USA
- Genres: Biography, Documentary, Drama
- Release: 2011-11-12
- Director: Pietra Brettkelly
- Writers: Pietra Brettkelly
- Language: English | Maori
- Stars: Ngaa Rauuira Pumanawawhiti
- Runtime: 90 min
- Awards: 1 nomination
- AKA: Maori Boy Genius (New Zealand) , Maori Boy Genius , Maly maoryski geniusz (Poland)
- Plot:
What if you could turn back the clock and watch the minds forming of those who would create political zeitgeist shifts in the future - the US's first black President Barack Obama, South America's first indigenous President Evo Morales, or Denmark's first female Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt. MAORI BOY GENIUS does just that. Future leader Ngaa Rauuira is railing against his people's statistics of uneducated youth, 40% of prisoners, alarming suicide rates and a dying language. His tribe believes he will save them. At 16 he studies politics at Yale, his family of 8 facing his US$35,000 education bill. Within a year he is leading a major protest and being asked to stand for Parliament. ONCE WERE WARRIORS depicted urban Maori 16 years ago. This is the surprising update.
- IMDB:tt2101394
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