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Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa in search of healing, and her family’s reckoning with systemic abuse, are powerfully documented.

Primary Title
  • LOIMATA: the Sweetest Tears
Date Broadcast
  • Sunday 7 February 2021
Release Year
  • 2020
Start Time
  • 19 : 30
Finish Time
  • 21 : 00
Duration
  • 90:00
Channel
  • Maori Television
Broadcaster
  • Maori Television Service
Programme Description
  • Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa in search of healing, and her family’s reckoning with systemic abuse, are powerfully documented.
Classification
  • M
Owning Collection
  • TV & Radio
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
  • Samoan
Captioning Languages
  • English
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • No
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
  • Siope, Lilomaiava Ema Tolua Fetu Vui
  • Documentary films--New Zealand
Genres
  • Biography
  • Documentary
Contributors
  • Anna Marbrook (Director)
  • Anna Marbrook (Producer)
  • Jim Marbrook (Producer)
  • Gaylene Preston (Executive Producer)
  • Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni (Executive Producer)
  • Jess Charlton (Cinematographer)
  • Malcolm Clarke (Editor)
  • Matthew Suttor (Composer)
  • Lilo Ema Siope (Subject)
  • Anna Marbrook Productions (Production Unit)
  • Somethingness Pictures (Production Unit)
  • NZ On Air (Funder)
Subjects
  • Siope, Lilomaiava Ema Tolua Fetu Vui
  • Documentary films--New Zealand