Based on the treatment of Pacific Island families during the New Zealand Dawn Raids of the 1970’s, this short is an intimate look into a police raid, as told through the eyes of a young girl Losa and her father Lupematasila.
Social & External
The people behind it
Biondi Sio
Lupematasila
Mikayla Aitogi-Wilson
Losa
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