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- Title
- Long Lost Sons
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
Raised in New Zealand by parents from Tokelau, What Now? presenter Jason Fa'afoi and his brother, reporter (and future MP) Kris have made their Wellington digs a Tokelau music free zone. In this documentary they join their parents and sister on a life-changing journey home. Aged 12, Dad Amosa was one of the first locals awarded a scholarship to be educated in NZ. Mother Metita left as part of a major resettlement plan. Neither has returned to Tokelau in 35 years. The Dominion-Post called the ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2004
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/long-lost-sons-2004
- Related subjects
- ancestry / tokelau / south pacific / coral atoll / jason fa'afoi / kris fa'afoi / fakaofo / emigration / identity / fale / canoe / island cricket / church / easter / family / cemetary / kris faafoi / tokelau islands / paradise / jason faafoi / cemetery / galway o'brien / new zealand on air / nz on air
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