Janson Media today announced the release to international television, VOD, and DVD/video markets of Quest for Kaitiakitanga, the second episode in the series Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose. This time Richard Bangs is near the southernmost reaches of civilization, in a down under world with an upright world-view — New Zealand. The massive lands of the Northern Hemisphere may tip the scales with their acreage, but today small New Zealand is proving to be more than good balance. It’s become a model for the world in its pursuit of a sustainable environment. Viewers join Bangs as he traverses the most physically and climatically diverse landmass in Polynesia in search of an age-old Maori concept that might hold a key to our planet’s future survival.
According to Bangs, “There is something irresistible about New Zealand’s natural beauty, something ever-alluring about its deep culture; and something enigmatic about how it seems more pristine with each visit.”
New Zealand was the last major landmass settled by humans, by men and women in stout canoes who traveled thousands of miles across the Pacific. The descendants of those early Polynesian explorers, known as Maori, developed their own mythology and value system to help them survive in this mystifying new world. Now, Bangs is setting off to seek some modern answers rooted in indigenous wisdom, hoping to unearth the meaning and origins of something Maori call “Kaitiakitanga,” something we might call “caretaking.” An important element of “Kaitiakitanga” is the responsibility human beings have to protect the physical world, including the land, seas and skies.
Quest for Kaitiakitanga was produced by Small World Productions, and is now available to international television, VOD, and DVD/video markets, exclusively through Janson Media.