Still Here
In 1971, 45 per cent of Auckland’s Pasifika population lived in the inner city. Now, they’re fewer than 2 per cent.
Through the eyes of Pacific youth and their families, a four-part docu-series by @Re: Docs with the support of NZ On Air, celebrates the small but mighty Pasifika community in inner-city Auckland who have remained despite decades of rampant gentrification.
Each episode weaves intergenerational stories of family, community and culture dispelling the myth that “all the Islanders have left.”.
'You gotta go twice as hard": City Boys on being brown in Grey Lynn
The Queen of Herne Bay: Why my Tongan family are still here
Make Ponsonby Brown Again: a Sāmoan family resisting gentrification
Tatau: The women keeping Sāmoan tattoo alive in Grey Lynn