The Wireless: Docs

- Season 1

(2017)

Maldivian student Abe Naim is better known as their alter ego: the powerful and sassy drag queen Medulla Oblongata, a notable figure in the Auckland LGBTQIA+ scene. Medulla Oblongata explores where Abe is now and the life they left behind.

Apollo is a Samoan mental health worker and a trained killer. He's also a vegan activist, challenging cultural and gender stereotypes about diet and lifestyle, and busting the meat = masculinity myth. This is story about a man on a mission to save animals, people, and the planet, all the while breaking the stereotypical vegan mold.

There's a spark that happens whenever a "that time I met (blank)" story is recollected and for Kiwis, isolated from the geographic mainstream, even more so. Stars Crashing Celebrity Aotearoa seeks to tell these stories through a range of diverse voices and make sense of the significance of these encounters in a globalized landscape and post-digital society.

Rituals of Death looks into the cultural reasoning behind Samoan rituals, customs and beliefs of the death and dying processes. Through the lens of one families expected loss, we share a rare human insight into our precious time with loved ones, offering insight into loss, grief and wider Pasifika communities.

Most of us feel the need to belong somewhere. For Kiwi paramedic Marko Cunningham, his place of belonging is with his Thai family of EMT volunteers in Bangkok. As the only Western EMT in Bangkok, Marko is a Farang (the Thai term for foreigner) but, in the midst of unpredictability and chaos, he has found home, family and belonging through a mutual desire to help people.

When The Land Speaks: Defending Ihumatao will present the story of the three young Maori women who have become leaders of a growing movement to fight the proposed housing development of their ancestral land. The film will follow these rangatahi wahine in the leadership and day-to-day work of the resistance movement they helped to found.

Following three queer emerging artists of Pasifika heritage as they embark on a journey of self-discovery, Queer Indigenous will navigate their collaborative practice as the performance art trio know as WITCH BITCH. Exploring identity for urban Pacific LGBT youth, Queer Indigenous seeks to re-author and re-imagine their place within an ever-changing social and cultural digital landscape.

The story of Madeleine, a seven year old girl from Auckland, New Zealand and her journey to be the top ranked BMX rider in her age group.