Lisa-Jane Taouma ONZM is a Samoan New Zealand writer, film and television director, and producer.

She has an MA (1st Hons) from the University of Auckland and lectures there on Pacific arts;[1] the title of her 1998 master's thesis was Re-picturing paradise : myths of the dusky maiden.

[3] Taouma began writing for the screen in 1996, with two acclaimed short filmsBrown Sugar[4] and Talk of the Town.

In 2018 she made the award winning documentary 'Marks of Mana' winning best documentary at the ImagineNative festival in Toronto 2018, Best Cinematography at DocEdge Festival in Aotearoa, in 2020 she made the award winning feature film anthology 'Teine Sa- The Ancient Ones' and in 2022 the smash hit teen drama film 'Inky Pinky Ponky - The Odd One Out' Taouma has curated a number of exhibitions and written for scholarly publications on representation of Polynesia in art.

[8] In the 2023 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Pacific arts and the screen industry.