Episode list

The Wireless: Docs

Medulla Oblongata
Maldivian student Abe Naim is better known as their alter ego: the powerful and sassy drag queen Medulla Oblongata, a notable figure in the Auckland LGBTQIA+ scene. Medulla Oblongata explores where Abe is now and the life they left behind.
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Apollo: Rise of the Poly-Vegan Soldier
Apollo is a Samoan mental health worker and a trained killer. He's also a vegan activist, challenging cultural and gender stereotypes about diet and lifestyle, and busting the meat = masculinity myth. This is story about a man on a mission to save animals, people, and the planet, all the while breaking the stereotypical vegan mold.
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Stars Crashing Celebrity Aotearoa
There's a spark that happens whenever a "that time I met (blank)" story is recollected and for Kiwis, isolated from the geographic mainstream, even more so. Stars Crashing Celebrity Aotearoa seeks to tell these stories through a range of diverse voices and make sense of the significance of these encounters in a globalized landscape and post-digital society.
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Aupito: The High Chief
Rituals of Death looks into the cultural reasoning behind Samoan rituals, customs and beliefs of the death and dying processes. Through the lens of one families expected loss, we share a rare human insight into our precious time with loved ones, offering insight into loss, grief and wider Pasifika communities.
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Farang

Tue, May 16, 2017
Most of us feel the need to belong somewhere. For Kiwi paramedic Marko Cunningham, his place of belonging is with his Thai family of EMT volunteers in Bangkok. As the only Western EMT in Bangkok, Marko is a Farang (the Thai term for foreigner) but, in the midst of unpredictability and chaos, he has found home, family and belonging through a mutual desire to help people.
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The Land Speaks

Tue, May 23, 2017
When The Land Speaks: Defending Ihumatao will present the story of the three young Maori women who have become leaders of a growing movement to fight the proposed housing development of their ancestral land. The film will follow these rangatahi wahine in the leadership and day-to-day work of the resistance movement they helped to found.
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Queer Indigenous
Following three queer emerging artists of Pasifika heritage as they embark on a journey of self-discovery, Queer Indigenous will navigate their collaborative practice as the performance art trio know as WITCH BITCH. Exploring identity for urban Pacific LGBT youth, Queer Indigenous seeks to re-author and re-imagine their place within an ever-changing social and cultural digital landscape.
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Mad Hunter

Sun, Aug 06, 2017
The story of Madeleine, a seven year old girl from Auckland, New Zealand and her journey to be the top ranked BMX rider in her age group.
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Porto il velo, adoro i Queen

Porto il velo, adoro i Queen

The Islamic world it's quite diverse. Throught this film we wanted to get to know the female side of it. The picture you'll get is: Muslim women as you have never seen them, to debunk prejudices and oversimplifications. This film portraits the new identities existing in my country, through the eyes and words of the new generations born here after the immigration that took place during the 70ies and the 90ies. The film pose us a question: what does in means to be Italian/European today? The title Under Pressure underlines the feeling of a whole generation, the subtitle I wear the veil I love Queen, it pays homage to Sumaya Abdel Qader, writer born in Perugia. Sumaya is one of the protagonists, the first met by the director Luisa Porrino, after she read her book - Luisa wanted to know more and she investigated to get realistic portraits of the conditions of a generation of women, that despite the fact that they are born and raised in Italy, they still live the strange and contaminated condition of "migrants", in a country that simultaneously welcomes them and turns them down. Throught film sequences "stolen" from everyday life and interviews, Sumaya, Takoua and Batul stretches out from domestic to international issues. They retrace the most significance events of the Arab Springs, nowadays marked by the utmost uncertain outcome. The film analyzes the difficult relationships between media, public opinion and Muslim world, that starting from September 9-11 before and after with the inception of IS, it's a proof of racists drifts and growing Islamophobia. The film investigates the main incomprehension's developed during the last 15 years and it opens a window that wants to help the understanding of the new fabric of our society.

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