TATOU OLAGA | Trailer

“Tatou Olaga” is a mini docu-series that follows the lives and experiences of Samoans in New Zealand across different generations, exploring the adversity they’ve faced and the barriers they have overcome as they, or their families, made their way across the Moana.
With more than 180,000 Samoans living in New Zealand today and over 55,000 of them having been born in Samoa, the Samoan migrant journey to Aotearoa New Zealand is often full of difficulties and hardships. However, it has led to the largest Samoan population outside of the homeland.
The docu-series aims to shed light on the unseen but common difficulties of the migrant journey, how these hardships can continue to affect subsequent generations, and demonstrate how some Samoans have overcome these challenges and eventually thrived in their new home away from home.
From parents searching for a better life for their children to academics finding their voice in a sea of racial injustice, “Tatou Olaga” is the story of our lives.
Produced and directed by Bluwave Galumoana LTD, with funding provided by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples, this docu-series will release monthly, with the first episode premiering soon called: “The Navigators.”
Fa’afetai tele lava to our wonderful collaborators who have shared their stories with us.

[@teuilawilliams]

My biggest and my huge blessings,and I can't thank God enough for guiding my way to New Zealand wirh my 3yr olds gorgeous twins now 26,attended Uni doing grate and still doing Amazing wirh tgeir lives,and make us the proudest parents, and have two more Amazing children going the same path steiving for their best future 🙌 🙏 ✨️ ❤️ unlike the life that we grew up back home

[@lnaf]

O for awesome