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Gallery - Albert Wendt

Albert Wendt talks about writing Sons For the Return Home

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Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree

Another movie based on a Albert Wendt story

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One Thousand Ropes

Also stars Uelese Petaia

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Viewfinder - 12 April 1984

Co-presented by Sons star Uelese Petaia

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No. 2

A later crosscultural romance

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The New Oceania

A documentary on author Albert Wendt

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The Orator - O Le Tulafale

A Samoan feature film

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Sione's Wedding

Another feature film featuring a Sione

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Landfall - A Film about Ourselves

Another Paul Maunder feature

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Speakeasy - Breaking In

Real life crosscultural love affair

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Gone up North for a While

Another Paul Maunder film dealing with abortion

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Dawn Raids

Documentary about the notorious dawn raids

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A State of Siege

Also features Anne Flannery

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Start Again

More NZ sexual and social liberation

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Tala Pasifika - The Overstayer

Drama on a part-Samoan family caught up in the Dawn Raids

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New Streets - Auckland Fa'a-Samoa

Albert Wendt on Samoans in New Zealand

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Tagata Pasifika - 7 March 2015

Discussion about teenage pregnancy

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The Sealhunters

An early short from Paul Maunder

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Aroha - Haka and Siva

Teleplay about a Māori/Samoan love affair

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Backroom Troubles

Documentary about NZ women and abortion

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One of Those People that Live in the World

An earlier drama from director Paul Maunder

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Loading Docs 2022 - Testimony

Short film about the Dawn Raids on Pasifika people