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- Title
- Pacific Mother
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
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In award-winning documentary Pacific Mother, Japanese actor and free diver Sachiko Fukumoto joins midwives and Pasifika mothers Kimi Werner, Rava Ray and Ioana Turia to advocate for women reclaiming indigenous birthing practises. Writer/director Katherine McRae (Shortland St, Go Girls) develops the theme of her successful short film Water Baby (2019), which chronicled Fukumoto's own water birth. In this trailer mothers and midwives discuss pregnancy as part of our natural environment, and as ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2023
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/pacific-mother-2023
- Related subjects
- pregnancy / water birth / tahiti / labour / motherhood / pacific ocean / stingrays / whanau / babies / whakiro / marae / coconut trees / canoe / waka / japan / aotearoa / birth stories / newborns / midwifery / suchiko fukumoto / free diving / rava ray / kimi werner / ioana turia / water therapy / keiko doering / amellia kapa / rarotonga / hawaii / parenthood / wāhine māori / wāhine / te ao māori / health and wellbeing / aqua birthing
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