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From mesmerising to tragic: Doco filmmaker’s epic nine-year journey to get her film made

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Photo: Before the Moon Falls / Facebook Gladys Hartson | Senior Journalist Hawaii-based Independent film maker Kimberlee Bassford decided she wanted to make a film about outspoken Samoan poet, writer and activist Sia Figiel soon after she met her in 2016. “She was in Honolulu launching her latest novel, Free Love,” Bassford says.  “I recognised her name because I had read her books 27 years ago when I was in college and on a s…
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TP+ broke the news in on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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