One Year On One man’s story, one year on from the Christchurch Mosque terror attack. A year after one of the darkest days in New Zealand’s history, frustration grows at the lack of change. Is...
John The Baptist An Englishman travels to Aotearoa, guided by a mission to share God’s love in te reo Māori. At the beginning of the 19th century, te reo Māori was the most commonly spoken language in Aotearoa (New Zealand)....
#Losing While preparing for a live performance, a poet reflects on his losing battle with a degenerative bone disease. #Losing is a portrait of an artist in conflict: conflict with himself. Dominic Hoey, formerly known as rapper Tourettes, is...
Union A young Māori outsider living in Japan tackles cultural isolation using the universal language of rugby. Living in a self-imposed exile from his home in New Zealand, Jared James finds himself struggling through crushing isolation in...
Beneath The Surface New Zealand’s first Tongan swimming champion battles self-doubt and setbacks as she fights for gold. A traumatic childhood accident left Tupou Neiufi with a permanent disability. But in the water, she feels invincible. Already a...
When Nobody Was Looking An entomologist takes on the 1970s New Zealand Government uncovering institutional racism and child abuse. Dr. Oliver Sutherland discovers disturbing cases of abused children in state care, including imprisonment and torture of children as young...
Fifty Percent With a 50% chance of inheriting a fatal disease, is it better to know or live in the moment? Lillian Hanly has a 50/50 chance of inheriting Huntington’s, a neurodegenerative disease. With a number of her family testing positive...
Table for One Against all odds, an ageing table tennis icon sacrifices it all for one last shot at Olympic greatness. In her final bid for gold, New Zealand’s Chunli Li, faces the lonely road of isolation and self-funding in sport,...
Wind Song and Rain Poet Hone Tuwhare's granddaughter pens a love letter to the world, bridging the gap he left and embracing his legacy. A national treasure whose poetry spanned over 40 years, the world knew Hone Tuwhare. His mokopuna Manaia never did. Now...
Kusuda A cyclone's threat on a vineyard prompts deep reflections on life's delicacy and wine-making's perils. Kusuda enters the world of Japanese winemaker, Hiro Kusuda, during a particularly challenging harvest at his vineyard in Martinborough, New...
Mana Wahine As Ihumātao garners worldwide attention, Pania Newton faces a critical choice: confront the bulldozers or abandon her cause. Set deep behind the front lines at Ihumātao, in the weeks leading up to what has become one of New...
Soldiers Road Connecting to culture through art, Soldiers Road Portraits reframe identity for a group of young Māori. A group of vulnerable young Māori are at a crossroads. Kicked out of school and with many of their whānau...
Please Open Cultural icon and cinematic relic The Crystal Palace fights to hold off the final curtain call. The Crystal Palace stands on one of Auckland’s busiest suburban roads. Passed by hundreds of commuters everyday, the theatre represents...
Fast Eddie After a devastating diagnosis, a father and daughter attempt one one-last challenge together. Four years ago, former cyclist and charismatic go-getter Eddie was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, a terminal neurodegenerative disorder that...
Bird’s Eye! Petra Leary takes her hidden superpower to the sky, with her drone and dog, Kodak, in tow. Life’s about how you see it. Petra Leary sees the world from above, seeking startling heights to create stunning art,...
The Barter Barber An adventurous barber, encouraging men to open up about mental health, must confront his own challenges. After losing four friends to suicide, crisis trained barber Sam Dowdall embarks on a road trip to change the current...
Kārearea Fern, a sassy Kārearea, embarks on a quest to safeguard her species' future and alter their notorious image. Renowned for their intelligence and personality, the carnivorous kārearea is New Zealand’s only species of falcon. Fern a confident young...
The Colourist Grace Rawson revisits the art of hand-tinted photography, a craft she mastered in the 1950s with Whites Aviation. The hand-tinted photographic landscapes of Whites Aviation have become celebrated icons of New Zealand’s mid-century culture. But few still know...
Blood Sugar Four-year-old Dahlia takes us into her bittersweet world of blood, needles and sugar. Dahlia is scared of needles, but she needs insulin injected several times a day. She is not alone; New Zealand...
Wilbur Force Wilbur Force must reignite his NZ pro-wrestling glory to break free from despair. For Wilbur Force, winning isn’t everything: it’s the only thing. But after moving back to his hometown, the former king...
Queer Selfies Coming out is one thing, coming home is another. For anyone of an ‘alternative’ sexuality, home can be a loaded concept, with its connotations of place, identity and security....
Mana Over Meth Facing a violent past and meth addiction, Jessica Apanui turns to Māoritanga to heal. Jessica Apanui’s methamphetamine addiction began as an escape from the trauma of a violent childhood. But after years of chronic...
She Speeds In the thrilling world of dirt track racing, Brooke smashes through gender barriers to do what she loves most. With racing in her blood, Brooke Clarkson a fourth-generation driver doesn’t just collide with other cars, she must come up...
What Logan Did A young warrior battles ecological adversity, innovating against the devastating didymo algae to protect his homeland rivers. Posing a massive threat to native wildlife and a river’s fragile ecosystem, didymo (discovered in New Zealand in 2004) has...
Surreal Estate An artist and his real-estate agent alter ego clash over the age old problem of art versus commerce. Fixated on the destruction of inner city domestic architecture, renowned New Zealand artist John Radford is creating GRAFT®, a major...