First Encounter 375 - Long Version

First Encounter 375
A documentary by Pete Blasdale
This is the 47 minute version. There is a short film version on youtube as well.
A commemoration was held in Golden Bay on 16-19 December 2017,
to celebrate the first encounter between the people of Aotearoa and Europe.
This occured when Dutchman, Abel Tasman and his sailors on two ships, the Heemskerk and Zeehaen, sailed into Golden Bay on 18 December 1642, and encountered the local people who were Ngati Tumatakokiri.
The event was developed by the
First Encounter 375 Planning Group
in collaboration with
Manawhenua ki Mohua & Tasman District Council
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We warmly thank everyone who appears in this documentary and the community for its support in creating the events
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In particular we acknowledge:
Ngati Tumatakokiri
Onetahua Marae
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Municipality of Grootegast
Pupu Hydro Society Inc, for sponsorship of the documentary
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Source acknowledgements:
SOUND
Taonga Puoro:
Richard Nunns, Robin Slow, Brian Flintoff
Batavia's Kerkhof, De Batavia voorbij & Entrada Batavia: Pekel
He honore & Haremai:
Mihi Rangihika & Zing Choir

Po Atarau/Now is the Hour:
St Joseph's Maori Girls College Choir, Napier
Abel Tasman's journal extracts: Peer van der List
Interviews & Voice-over: Grant Knowles
IMAGES
First Encounter 375 logo: Robin Slow
Diorama models, prautien, map, paintings: Robert Jenkin
Charts, diagrams: Dave Horry
Abel Tasman displays & ​Oriwa Te Rangi Wharona Whakamarama Haddon painting - 'Abel Tasman’s crew near Separation Point.'
Presented to the Abel Tasman National Park Board by
Mr and Mrs W S Drummond:
Golden Bay Museum Te Waka Huia o Mohua
Portrait claiming to be of Abel Tasman, his wife and daughter
(Cuyp, 1637):
National Library of Australia
Abel Tasman's journal & Blok Fragment: National Archives, The Hague, The Netherlands
Still photos: Tim Hawthorne
Drone:
Tom Bassett-Eason
Camera, Sound & Edit: Pete Blasdale