Experience

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  Talanoa Ltd/Talavou Productions

  • Aotearoa

  • Freelance Creative

    • Jan 2010 - Present
    • Aotearoa

    Freelance director, editor, shooter, writer, marketing and communications, media manager, story producer, producer

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  PIFT (Pacific Islanders in Film and TV)

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Executive Board Member

    • 2013 - 2019
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Coordinating a network of Pacific Islands film and tv practitioners.

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  Pacific Dance New Zealand

  • Auckland

  • Marketing & Communications

    • May 2010 - Oct 2018
    • Auckland

    Marketing, communications, publicity, database management, website management, social media manager, project development and implementation.

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  Youth Performance Trust

  • Aotearoa

  • Executive Board Member

    • Apr 2014 - 2017
    • Aotearoa

    Trustee

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  Pacific Arts Cluster

  • Auckland

  • Coordinator

    • Jan 2011 - Oct 2016
    • Auckland

    Coordinator of the Pacific Arts Cluster - a network of Pacific artists.

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  Samoa mo Samoa

  • Boss

    • 2011 - 2012

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  TVNZ

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Researcher, Director, Reporter, Production Assistant

    • Apr 2005 - Jul 2010
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Primarily worked as a reporter/director for Tagata Pasifika (TVNZOne). Also successfully pitched a television show called 'The Laughing Samoans at Large' (TV2), worked as a researcher and production coordinator. Fresh TV researcher, Radar Across the Pacific researcher.

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  Ministry of Education of New Zealand

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Scale A Teacher

    • 1999 - 2008
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    I worked as a Scale A Primary School Teacher, firstly teaching Year 6, followed by specialising at intermediate level (year 7 & 8). In 2005 I decided to follow a work path into broadcast media but still continued to relief teach, whereby I taught right across the Auckland region, until 2008.