Maurice and I is an unexpectedly moving, delightful, at times harrowing look at the enduring partnership between architects Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney and the creation and saving of the iconic Christchurch Town Hall.
Currently in cinemas across Aotearoa New Zealand, this fascinating documentary has broken box office records in Ōtautahi Christchurch and been accepted into the Rotterdam Film Festival of Architecture.
Co-director, producer and writer Rick Harvie had been making a short corporate documentary about the refurbishment of the Christchurch Town Hall and during his interviews, Sir Miles kept saying “Maurice and I” leading Harvie to realise perhaps there was another story to be told. Harvie met casting director and producer Jane Mahoney a few years later and told her about the idea to create a documentary about Sir Miles and her father – Maurice Mahoney.
Jane Mahoney and Rick Harvie spoke to Culture 101’s Perlina Lau.