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'The Wizard and the Commodore - Chathams Islands' is a film in 2017 New Zealand colour documentary feature film by New Zealand film director Samuel A. Miller. 110mins Colour Aspect Ratio 1:85:1 Sound Dolby 5.1

The film narrated by Davey Round author of Truth or Treaty Canterbury University Press 1998, features the Wizard of New Zealand, and the Commodore of the Chathams Islands, and portrays the people and culture of the Chatham Islands. Scenes in the film cover Moriori, European and Maori history on the Islands along with modern local fishing and cattle rustling techniques.

The Wizard of New Zealand inducted an apprentice Wizard of the Chatham Island; Jim Murphy.

The film has been called "controversial" for it's historical documentation of the Moriori genocide at the hands of Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Toa tribes from the mainland of New Zealand - these issues are hotly debated even today. Latest DNA origins of Pacific peoples and possible migration patterns of Moriori are also examined in depth. The film provides concrete evidence of Pacific origins of Moriori.

The Film also documents the debated Moriori Crucifixions at Waitangi which have never been presented in a feature film, and describe indigenous cultures that even to this day are under threat from modernization. The film gives voice to the voiceless, and a culture which barely survived systematic annihilation at the hands of Colonists.

A 140 minute early cut of the film screened to an audience at the Hollywood Cinema, Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand 26th August 2016.

The revised 110 minute film including a 10minute intermission test screened in 2017 on the Chatham Island at the Norman Kirk centre Waiteki/Waitangi where it was considered "highly controversial".

The Film Premiered at the Jerusalem Cinematheque (Israel Film Archive) 29th March 2018