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Our Small World

Television (Full Length) – 2000

Our Small World is a portrait of life on an atoll in Tokelau — on Fale, an island so small, the schoolhouse had to be built on the next island, and the pigs live on the reef. Narrated by Tokelau-born Ioane Puka on a return visit, the film examines old traditions meeting pressures from the outside world, an emphasis on self-sufficiency and togetherness, and worries over education and a declining, youth-heavy population. Key decisions are made by a group of male elders, although after initial doubts, they have accepted a woman police officer.

Tokelau is three atolls spread out over a 100 kilometres of ocean - each atoll a small world unto itself.
– Narrator Ioane Puka

Key Cast & Crew

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Peta Carey

Camera, Director

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George Andrews

Producer

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Ioane Puka

Narrator

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Olin Turrall

Online Editor

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Roger Green

Sound

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Anthony Muru

Editor

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Music

Music composed by group Te Vaka

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