Is Tweedie Waititi related to Taika Waititi?

Tweedie Waititi is a producer and director of films from New Zealand. The whāngai sister of Taika Waititi, she gained notoriety for co-directing Matewa Media, a production business that has been making Māori language translations of Disney animated films since 2016.

Is Tweedie Waititi related to Taika Waititi?

Tweedie Waititi and Taika Waititi are related. Although Taika Waititi and Tweedie were raised together through whāngai adoption, they still regard each other as siblings. Tweedie is Taika Waititi’s first cousin.

Together with filmmaker Chelsea Winstanley, Tweedie Waititi founded Matewa Media in 2017. For the home media and in-flight distribution of her cousin’s movie Thor: Ragnarok, Tweedie Waititi translated the subtitles into Te Reo.

Tweedie Waititi assisted in the development of genuine Maori narratives for the production of the LGBT movie Rurangi in 2020 as a script consultant. Producing the short film Daddy’s Girl, Tweedie Waititi took home the Department of Post Best New Zealand Film award at the 2020 Show Me Shorts film festival.

Two te reo Maori versions of Disney movies were created in 2022 by Tweedie Waititi: Frozen, which will be released in 2022, and The Lion King, which debuted at Matariki.

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