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Tatau

Short Film (Full Length) – 2012

E te maua le malosi pe a mafai ona e iloa vaivaiga. (You gain strength when you can acknowledge weakness.)
– Sione (Vasa Tasele)
[Siaki is] trying to deal with the lifelong shame of having an incomplete traditional tattoo. The tattoo is a commitment to Samoan culture and is said to be the highest form of clothing a person can wear
– Writer Rhiannon Horrell in a Stuff article on the film 6 July 2012
I see it as a really human story. The more culturally specific you are, the more universal it becomes.
– Writer/director Chantelle Burgoyne in an interview with Stuff, 6 July 2012