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Long Lost Sons

Television (Full Length) – 2004

Raised in New Zealand by parents from Tokelau, What Now? presenter Jason Fa'afoi and his brother, reporter (and future MP) Kris have made their Wellington digs a Tokelau music free zone. In this documentary they join their parents and sister on a life-changing journey home. Aged 12, Dad Amosa was one of the first locals awarded a scholarship to be educated in NZ. Mother Metita left as part of a major resettlement plan. Neither has returned to Tokelau in 35 years. The Dominion-Post called the result “a great little documentary”; The Press rated it the best NZ documentary of 2004.

The Fa'afoi's are actually Tokelaun. But like a lot of New Zealand-born Islanders, the boys have never been home. They reckon their time to return home is now.
– Narrator David Fane

Key Cast & Crew

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Jason Fa'afoi

Subject

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Lotta McVeigh

Director, Writer

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Gary Scott

Producer

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Kris Faafoi

Subject

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Nic McGowan

Sound Mix

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Sue Malcolmson

Editor

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The Gibson Group

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Fa'afoi family, all the people of Fakaofo, Tokelau, NZ Television Archive, NZ Herald


Made with funding from NZ On Air

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