Maori Boy Genius was released on November 12, 2011.

Maori Boy Genius was directed by Pietra Brettkelly.

Maori Boy Genius has a runtime of 90m.

Maori Boy Genius was produced by Pietra Brettkelly.

What if you could turn back the clock and watch the minds forming of those who would create political zeitgeist shifts in the future - the US's first black President Barack Obama, South America's first indigenous President Evo Morales, or Denmark's first female Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt. MAORI BOY GENIUS does just that. Future leader Ngaa Rauuira is railing against his people's statistics of uneducated youth, 40% of prisoners, alarming suicide rates and a dying language. His tribe believes he will save them. At 16 he studies politics at Yale, his family of 8 facing his US$35,000 education bill. Within a year he is leading a major protest and being asked to stand for Parliament. ONCE WERE WARRIORS depicted urban Maori 16 years ago. This is the surprising update.

The key characters in Maori Boy Genius are Himself (Ngaa Rauuira Pumanawawhiti).

Maori Boy Genius is a Biography, Family, Documentary film.

Maori Boy Genius has an audience rating of 6.8 out of 10.