The Cube of Truth A daring couple exposes animal agriculture's violence, bringing a startling message to the streets. Animal activism isn’t for the faint hearted. Every month in Auckland masked people in black congregate in a Cube of...
OK Chlöe Millennial MP, Chlöe Swarbrick, challenges the establishment during the most important year of her political career. In a momentous year, Aotearoa’s youngest MP vows to radically change the political status quo from within. But behind the...
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...
Hear Me Out Mojo Mathers, Aotearoa's first deaf MP, has one final opportunity to fight for disability-inclusive democracy. Democracy isn’t always democratic, and even the best governments struggle to be truly inclusive. Mojo Mathers knows from what it...
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)....
Same but Different Two best friends navigate the evolving landscape of their bond as one embraces her true gender identity. At 50, Byron’s transition brings a profound sense of freedom, yet it strains her long-standing friendship with Neil, her mountaineering...
The Coffin Club A group of rebellious, creative Kiwi seniors give death the finger, one crazy coffin at a time. Musical and documentary unite to introduce The Coffin Club, a truly unique community organisation bringing free-spirited seniors together to construct...
Wayne Wayne, a man with limited communication skills, learns the harsh reality of love and romance. Excited to see his friend Rachel, Wayne’s saddened that she needs some space and goes about building a plan to...
Testimony A Tongan-born New Zealander admits the painful truth behind what really happened to his family during the Dawn Raids. Tongan-born Tesimoni Fuavao came to Aotearoa with his family in 1975 for medical treatment. On a day out with a...
Wahine Warrior Post-trauma, Pania is reborn a warrior, turning to hunting as her path to forge a self-reliant sisterhood. Pania Tepaiho-Marsh understands the anxiety for single parents to put kai on the table. Reinventing herself to help other wahine...
E Blacks A passionate gamer leads his team in a battle to be New Zealand's first Esports competitors in the Commonwealth Games. The thing Sam ‘Fury’ Johnson regrets most in life is wasting his time at university when he could’ve been focusing...
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...
How Mr and Mrs Gock Saved the Kumara In the 1940s, two young Chinese refugees found an unlikely way to repay New Zealand's welcome. Fay and Joe Gock are quite simply beyond inspiring. Having escaped the Japanese Invasion of China, they fell in love...
Madness Made Me Former Mental Health Commissioner Mary O’Hagan confronts the stark reality of her psychiatric files. Down the end of the long polished corridor, former Mental Health Commissioner for New Zealand, Mary O’Hagan comes face to...
Conversations with Pets Imagine if you could have a conversation with your pet… Faye Rogers can. Animal lovers form a special bond with their pets but how deep does this go and what would happen if...
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....