New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi has been finding success at this year's Sundance Film Festival with the debut of his movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople - but that's not all he's been up to.
Waititi today announced on Twitter that he had a hand in helping launch the Merata MitaFellowship.
"I helped launch this fellowship for indigenous artists in the name of my friend and mentor, the great Merata Mita." Taika wrote.
I helped launch this fellowship for indigenous artists in the name of my friend & mentor, the great Merata Mita.https://t.co/CdKdOxAzO9
The fellowship, which launched at the independent film festival, is in honour of late Maori filmmaker Merata Mita, whose name is tied to several New Zealand documentaries.
