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Saving Face
Television (Excerpts) – 2009
It can be a bit of a cliché to talk about 'Kiwi ingenuity' but these four guys were the real deal, they took their existing surgical know-how and rose to the extraordinary challenges they faced.– John Hagen (director)
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