Akuhata on set with film crew and EIT | Te Pūkenga nursing students posing as “extras”.

A new promotional video, featuring promising young actor Akuhata (Augs) Keefe (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whātua and Ngāti Kahungunu), has been released by EIT | Te Pūkenga to showcase the wide variety of programmes on offer at the institute.

The video, which was commissioned by the EIT | Te Pūkenga Marketing Department, was directed and produced by Hawke’s Bay video production company Indelible. Company Director Dan Browne together with brother and videographer Andrew shot the video on locations in Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti, with EIT|Te Pūkenga staff and students featured in supporting roles to Akuhata. The classroom scenes were filmed at Taradale High School.

The video opens with Akuhata, who was once an EIT Trades Academy student, as a young school leaver looking for a career path. He is shown as a school student looking at studying nursing, computing, vet nursing, business studies, creative practice, Māori studies, sports science, environmental studies, wine and viticulture, trades and teaching. The video ends with him as a teacher welcoming young students into his own classroom.

EIT | Te Pūkenga Executive Director Glen Harkness says the video is an important visual opportunity to show the wide variety of certificate, diploma and degree programmes on offer at EIT | Te Pūkenga.

“We are proud of the skills and academic pathways that we offer to a range of learners from school leavers to mature students. We cater for all needs, be it those embarking on a new career or those seeking to change directions.”

“This video is targeted at high school students who may not realise that they have a quality option to study in their chosen career right here on their doorstep.”

The video is being shared across the EIT | Te Pūkenga social media networks, emailed to all students, shared on campus and regional learning centres and in high schools.  The video can be viewed here.