MATHURIN MOLGAT

New Zealand film- maker Mathurin Molgat talks about 38,000-year-old Kauri trees and the man who "makes them sing".

Mathurin has been involved in the New Zealand film industry since 1985. He was the lead actor in the 1987 cult film “The Leading Edge” in which he also worked as post production supervisor and assisted in marketing and promotion. Mathurin and Academy Award nominee Michael Firth went on to produce several more short films and in 1989 won “Best Short” at the International Festival of Adventure Films for their production “Skifield in the Sky”. In 1990, Mathurin represented New Zealand film at the Singapore International Film Festival where he was a keynote speaker. He has worked in well over 50 television commercials and film productions. Mathurin is a former World Cup skier and has been featured in commercials and films in Europe, America, Japan and Australasia. He is also a songwriter and guitarist who has toured the world and recorded several albums. He owns a recording studio in Queenstown, NZ.

“Song of the Kauri” is Maturin’s documentary directorial debut. He believes that a director of a documentary production is above all a good listener and a facilitator. “I hope to tell this story from the inside. I am privileged to be allowed into the lives of the fascinating characters in the ‘Song of the Kauri’ and I will honor their trust in me by telling their stories and visualizing their memories on film.”