Atuatanga - Doc Edge Selection

Atuatanga, Aotearoa’s first full-scale te reo Māori virtual reality game. Wellington public will get to experience this game free as part of the Doc Edge documentary festival Immersive Exhibition Impact Stories series, from now until 14 July at Te Auaha, Wellington. A special event will be help on Monday 8 July 5.30PM at Te Auaha to celebrate Impact Storytelling, with creator Wiremu Grace, alongside Metramorphoses creator Laura Yilmaz.

The exhibition will run from 4-13 July 2024 at Te Auaha Gallery.

VR experiences are part of the exhibition and will be hosted by a gallery coordinator available from

12 pm - 4 pm (weekdays)

10 am - 3 pm on (Saturdays)

Go to Doc Edge’s website to book a session.

Atuatanga is an immersive experience like no other, combining high performance virtual reality gameplay with Indigenous knowledge to tackle the climate crisis. Virtual reality guides you deep into a Māori world view, showing future destruction if action is not taken. Using cutting edge technology from Meta Quest and the Unreal Engine, you will see, hear and feel the journey of the Atua. Atuatanga premiered at Māoriland earlier this year, winning ‘People’s Choice Award’.

Atuatanga comes off the back of Porirua director and writer Wiremu Grace’s first VR project Whakakitenga. Wiremu won the best short film script at the Māori literature awards in 2003 and in 2009 he won best short film script and also came third in the New Zealand writers guild script competition. As writer and director Wiremu’s first short film Kehua premiered at the 2009 Berlinale film festival in Germany. In 2010, Wiremu completed the prestigious Binger film lab in Amsterdam with a feature film project.

More info here: https://www.atuatanga.com/