Samuel Te Kani is a writer and filmmaker based in Tāmaki Makaurau, he is the author of Please Call Me Jesus (2022). In 2025, Te Kani premiered his first film, A Very Good Boy, developed through Jane Campion’s Aotearoa Screen Stories intensive and debuting at the Venice International Film Festival. He hosts a podcast called Rats in the Gutter with Johanna Cosgrove, and his bylines include Vice, The Spinoff, Metro Magazine, the Pantograph Punch and Art New Zealand.sam1