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Māori-Pacific Filmmaker’s iPhone Documentary Exposes Hollywood’s Decay

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Aroha Awarau, Māori-Pacific filmmaker. Photo: Supplied Māori-Pacific filmmaker Aroha Awarau is telling powerful Pacific stories to the world most recently with Faded, a two-minute documentary shot entirely on his iPhone. While in Los Angeles for the premiere of his short film Puti, which explores Māori youth resilience, Awarau was struck by the contrast between Hollywood’s glitz and its surrounding homelessness. Sitting on the Dolby Theatre step…
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TP+ broke the news in on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
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