Dame Valerie Adams - More Than Gold

Sporting icon Dame Valerie Adam's decision to shoot for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games meant hard choices. This feature documentary follows the 36-year-old shot putter as she trains for her fifth Olympics, trying to balance being a mum to young children, her ambitions, her health and her determination to give back to her Pasifika community. In this trailer Adams talks about growing up poor but loved in her large Tongan family, the pain of leaving her babies behind to train overseas, and the psychological impact of being six foot four while still at primary school. Briar March also directed award-winner There Once Was An Island. 

I want to do this for my babies. I want to do this to inspire them. But I know this journey is gonna be the most difficult campaign that I will ever embark on.

– Dame Valerie Adams on competing in the Tokyo Olympics at the age of 36

Key Cast & Crew

Mark Lapwood

Cinematographer

Margot Francis

Editor

Ari Liberman

Composer

Alan Kidd

Sound Design

Leanne Pooley

Producer

Briar March

Director, Writer