Raymond Richard Waru MNZM (born 1952) is a New Zealand Māori radio and television director and producer.
In 1980, he headed the original Television New Zealand Māori production unit.
[1][2] In the 1980s Waru produced and directed a revolutionary documentary series, The Natural World of the Māori, various film and television productions in New Zealand and in Australia, as well as an IMAX production under the East-West Center in Hawaii.
In the 1990s Waru was co-producer of the major history series, Our People, Our Century, a winner at the 2000 New Zealand Film and TV Awards, and he produced Toro Mai, a 25-part serial drama in te reo.
[5] In 2012 Waru published "Secrets & Treasures" which consists of "stories told through the objects at Archives New Zealand"[6] and which "delves into the archives to tell a very human story of New Zealand, a story that involves love, death, war, immigration, disaster, protest, defiance, censorship and hokey pokey".