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FaifuaAmiga

  • Actor
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Faifua Amiga won acclaim with Kingpin - his first film role - at the age of 14. Four years later, he took centre stage in the Samoan feature film Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree.

Screenography

D.S.B.
1997 As: Racehorse Short film
Tala Pasifika - A Day in the Life
1996 As: Matt Television
Tala Pasifika
1996 - 2000 As: Matt Series
Dead Certs
1995 As: Head Honcho Television

Biography

Faifua Amiga - sometimes credited as Junior Amiga, and Faifua Amiga Jr - made his screen debut in borstal drama Kingpin, as teen car thief Willie Hoto. He followed it with roles in Polynesian road movie Mark II and Samoan drama Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree. 

Awards

1990 NZ Film Awards
Nominated for Best Performance, Male: for Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree

“At the heart of it is a terrific performance from Faifua Amiga. His Pepe is a soul in torment, at war with himself and with the alienating cultural ideals of the colonising Palagi.”

— Costa Botes, reviewing Flying Fox