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Tatau (2012)
Directed by Chantelle Burgoyne
Drama · 15m
Tatau is about Siaki (Jack), an elderly Samoan man struggling to come to terms with the lifelong shame of having an incomplete traditional tattoo and the shame of now losing his sight. As Siaki's vision deteriorates, memories of the painful tattooing ceremony he underwent in his youth haunt him as he yearns to see his tattoo completed before it's too late.
Cast
Beulah Koale
Robbie Magasiva
Vasa Tasele
Aleni Tufuga
Crew
- Director
- Chantelle Burgoyne
- Writer
- Chantelle Burgoyne
- Editor
- Chantelle Burgoyne
- Producer
- Graeme E. Bibby, Chantelle Burgoyne, Zanna Gillespie, Selina Joe
Details
- Release date
- 2012-07-02
- Runtime
- 15m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Samoan
- Countries
- New Zealand, Samoa
- Production
- Television New Zealand, New Zealand Film Commission