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Prominent Maori film-maker Barry Barclay has died, aged 63.
Barclay died last night, after suffering a stroke.
He was the first Maori to direct a feature film in Ngati, which won best film at the Taormina Film Festival, Italy, in 1987 and also screened at the Cannes festival.
He also wrote and directed Te Rua, a fictional story about a group of Maori who set off for Berlin to claim back tribal carvings held in a museum there.
In 2006 he published the book Mana Tuturu, about indigenous intellectual property rights.
Barclay was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in last year's Queen's Birthday Honours.
He lived at Omapere in the Far North's Hokianga district.
- NZPA
