Vea Mafile'o
Tongan Kiwi Vea Mafile'o began her screen career in the art department, drawing on her university studies in Visual Arts. Alongside being a prolific artist, she worked as an art director for television (Pacific Beat Street) and on a run of short films (Broken Silence). Mafile'o has also done time in the director's chair, helming several TV shows including Tagata Pasifika, Fresh and I AM TV. In 2015 she founded production company Malosi Pictures with her partner Jeremiah Tauamiti. In 2019 the pair debuted their first feature at the Berlin Film Festival: documentary For My Father's Kingdom, about Vea's father Saia Mafile'o.
...I love documentary, especially cinéma vérité where you can sit and be immersed in another world. I also like the emotion you can make from picture and sound, for me I use a lot of sounds to evoke feelings. Vea Mafile'o, in a 2018 interview with Coconet.TV
Teine Sā - The Ancient Ones (excerpts)
2021, Art Director - Web
For My Father's Kingdom
2019, Co-Director, Writer, Subject, Producer - Film
Fresh - Jason Momoa and Wentworth (Series Three, Episode 16)
2013, Director, Camera - Television
Fresh - Bloopers and Fob Outs (Series Two)
2012, Director - Television
Fresh
2012 - ongoing, Director, Camera - Television
Tagata Pasifika - 2011 Polynesian Blue Pacific Music Awards
2011, Director - Inserts, Art Director - Television
Laughing Samoans at Large - First Episode
2010, Art Director - Television
I Am TV
2012 - 2013, Director - Television
Pacific Beat Street - Series Three, Final Episode
2008, Second Camera - Television
Pacific Beat Street
2006 - 2009, Art Director, Camera - Television
Tagata Pasifika
2008 - ongoing, Director, Reporter - Television