Krystal
Ma fierté (My Pride)
Year: 2019 Director: Briar Grace-Smith Duration: 13 minutes Language: English Nation: Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu
Year: 2018 Director: Kassandra Vollant Duration: 4 minutes Language: French with English Subtitles Nation: Innu
A young woman is released from jail and taken straight to a party, where she is forced to confront her past, realising the person she wants to see the least, is the person she needs the most. Her mum.
An endearing and cheerful teenager balances traditions and modernity in her daily life. She shows us her regalia and shares her pride in being Innu.
Sons of Blackbird
Tell Me I Can’t
Year: 2019 Director: Onehou Strickland Duration: 8 minutes Language: English Nation: Samoa
Year: 2018 Director: Struan Purdie Duration: 19 minutes Language: English Nation: Ngāi Tūhoe
Poet Lastman So’oula reflects on his days working a factory line, and his feelings of mistreatment and exploitation. A story with references to ‘blackbirding’, the practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders to be used as forced labour.
Tell Me I Can’t is a story of what can happen when one man brushes aside society’s expectations of himself, his young people, and the way social work is supposed to be done.
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