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Tep Tok : Our Lines Connect Us

Released January 23rd, 2021 at the Auckland Museum

Documentary Runtime : 1 hour 18 minutes 3 seconds

Partly Funded by: Creative NZ, Wantok Music Foundation, Auckland Council, Maitree Productions

Tep Tok : Our Lines Connect Us is the second Tep Tok (Tap Talk) documentary by Julia Mage'au Gray of Sunameke Productions. A documentary following the skin marking stories of Melanesian women living in New Zealand and Australia with Papua New Guinea and Fiji heritage. The documentary will share the conversations around revival and transmission of knowledge from the perspectives of First Peoples Revivalists from Papua New Guinea, India, Philippines, Borneo, Taiwan, Inuit, Hawai’i and Aotearoa, New Zealand.