In award-winning documentary Pacific Mother, Japanese actor and free diver Sachiko Fukumoto joins midwives and Pasifika mothers Kimi Werner, Rava Ray and Ioana Turia to advocate for women reclaiming indigenous birthing practises. Writer/director Katherine McRae (Shortland St, Go Girls) develops the theme of her successful short film Water Baby (2019), which chronicled Fukumoto's own water birth. In this trailer mothers and midwives discuss pregnancy as part of our natural environment, and as an extension of the ocean. The film won four awards at Kiwi festival Doc Edge, including Best NZ Feature.