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Something of an antipodean Seven Up! (the famous life-chronicling UK series) this fascinating documentary picks up on the stories of four young Māori - now middle-aged - 24 years after they moved to the Wellington as part of a Māori Affairs Department re-deployment program. This doco makes liberal use of the original to contrast the cowshed to cubicle journeys; and revisits Ripeka (now in Hamilton), Moana (Guam via Japan), Grace (Wellington), and Phillip (Brisbane), who reflect on the paths their lives have followed, and on their Māori culture and where 'home' is.

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 Brian Lennane
 Bronwen Stewart
 Ian Johnstone

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Quotes

Wherever they are now - Australia, Guam, New Zealand - there's one question that concerns all four: where do I belong? 
At the age of 17 I'd never been on a boat, I'd never been in a lift ... I'd never been on an escalator! It was very strange: it opened up a new world. 
The first time ever I wore a pair of high heels, and Mum has lent me the high heels so that I could look the part of a person going to town.