TukiLaumea
- Director
Kiwi-Samoan Tuki Laumea started out on screen in the early 2000s, presenting segments for Pulp Sport and Pacific Beat Street. He went on to spend five years in Qatar with Al Jazeera, covering key events in the Middle East. He was nominated for a BAFTA for his work editing documentary Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark. After directing numerous docos, Laumea returned to Aotearoa to focus on Pasifika stories. He earned multiple NZTV Awards for Pasifika-focused web series Tales of Time and Untold Pacific History, and doco 1918: Samoa and the Ship of Death. Laumea is also the co-founder of production company Nine Island Media.
Screenography
Awards
2024 New Zealand Television Awards / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated for Best Pasifika Programme (with Damon Fepulea'i): Untold Pacific History
“These days I make my living as a director and a writer and a produce. You know as far as I'm concerned that's just a modern day storyteller. And I think that has a lot to do with growing up immersed in the Samoan culture of storytelling, and the fact that as people we just like to tell stories and entertain and have fun.”