AN IMMIGRANT NATION: SEARCHING FOR PARADISE

Told through a series of emotional and personal stories each documentary encapsulates the immigrant experience. Each programme explores issues such as prejudice, loss longing and a feeling of always having a foot in two worlds. The documentaries also looks at life for different generations; about where they feel they belong, and issues of preservation of culture.”
This is the story of young Samoan musician Pati Umaga.” [Quote from Top Shelf Winter catalogue 1996/97, pg. 16/17]
Covers the problems the Umaga family encountered as emigrants in 1960’s Newtown, especially in trying to bring up their children according to Fa’a Samoa. Follows Pati Umaga and his return visit to Samoa as an adult and use of music to bring together the Samoan and New Zealand worlds.