Taonga, a short documentary film about Cook Islands artist and activist Mike Tavioni, directed and produced by local filmmaker Glenda Tuaine, has been screened worldwide and most recently at the Hawaii International Film Festival.
It’s not enough to talk about our culture, we have to live and breathe it, says Papa Mitaera Ngatae Teatuakaro Michael Tavioni BEM. For us the question is how do we breathe life into our culture, our arts and the artists who continue to put our country and culture on the world stage, and usually at their own or someone else’s expense, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
In Australia, in the state of Victoria, a truth commission called Yoorrook held public hearings with victims and witnesses. As Australia struggles to deal with the issue of violence against indigenous peoples, Yoorrook highlights how Aboriginal communities continue to suffer from the reality of colonisation.