Vai
Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers 2019 1h 30m Film
- Drama
- Pasifika
About
Feature film Vai ranges across the Pacific — from an eight-year-old girl's drama-filled day in Fiji, to a sacred moment in an Aotearoa forest. The film follows a similar collaborative filmmaking model to Waru (2017), only this time the link between each story is a female one. Many of the stories are also connected by water (vai). Vai premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival. The nine Pasifika women filmmakers are Sharon and Nicole Whippy, Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Mīria George, 'Ofa-ki Guttenbeil-Likiliki and Marina Alofagia McCartney.
Key Cast & Crew
AT
Ana Tuisila
As: Aunty Pepe (Samoa - ceremony story)
ME
Maliaga Erick
As: Vai at 64 (Nuie - leaving Nuie story)
'RL
'Ar-Ramadi Longopoa
As: Vai at 13 (Tonga - water search, second story)
MT
Mereani Tuimatanisiga
As: Vai at 7 (Fiji - first story)
FC
Fiona Collins
As: Vai at 42 (Samoa - ceremony story)
ERA
Evotia-Rose Araiti
As: Vai at 30 (Cook Islands/Kuki Airani - protest story)
AP
Agnes Pele
As: Vai at 21 (NZ - student story)
HD
Hinetu Dell
As: Vai at 80 (NZ - final story)
SM
Sarah Magaoa
As: Moana (Niue - leaving Nuie story)
RL
Rokolani Lavea
As: Vai's friend (NZ - student story)
RT
Rhonda Tibble
As: Mata (NZ - final story)
