Tagata Pasifika [SEP] country of origin
Tagata Pasifika
Tagata Pasifika is an English language New Zealand programme which screens on TVNZ's TV ONE and on Māori Television. This programme is made to specifically meet the niche market of New Zealand's Pacific Islander population.
Content.
Tagata Pasifika features current events from both New Zealand and Polynesia. The show features report coverage of Pacific Island cultural events such as the annual Pasifika festival along with arts and profiles.
TAGATA PASIFIKA was first coined in the mid 1980s as a reference to people with genealogical connections to islands
Brown Sugar" and "Talk of the Town". She began working on "Tagata Pasifika" as a reporter and currently works as the show's senior director.
In 2014 she launched Polynesian online community Coconet.
Taouma has curated a number of exhibitions and written for scholarly publications on representation of Polynesia in art. In 2002, as part of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art she curated "Pasifika Divas," an interdisciplinary performance-based project at the Queensland Art Gallery.
In the 2009 Qantas Film