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Coco congrats to director Nina Nawalowalo, Fa amoana John Luafutu and the Luafutu family with their A Boy Called Piano - The story of Fa amoana John Luafutu winning Best feature documentary at the spring edition of the prestigious Montreal Independent Film Festival. This is Fijian director Nina Nawalowalo s first feature film. - Arriving to New Zealand from Samoa as a young child in the 1950s, Fa amoana was taken from his family and placed in state care, suffering terrible abuse alongside thousands of other Pacific and Maori children.
REVIEW: His story – and the one the Luafutu family have to tell – strikes me as about the most deserving material for a Kiwi doco as I've seen in years.