Story

Small Island Big Song, an uplifting feature musical documentary. From Taiwan to New Zealand, from Madagascar to Rapa Nui/Easter Island.
The filmmakers spent three years meeting the descendants of the seafarers of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, on their homelands to record a song in nature, songs to share across the ocean. Over 100 first nation artists from 16 Island nations contributed to this oceanic songline, reuniting this shared ancestry in the language and with the instruments of islands. Creating an indigenous grassroots story free of western narrative structures, a lineage into a time and knowing before the borders were drawn, and just perhaps revealing some timely wisdom through song.
At the very least you’ll meet some extraordinary musicians in stunning natural locations, playing songs that will get you grooving on instruments you couldn't imagine.

Cast

Yoyo Tuki - Easter Island/Rapa Nui
Ado Kaliting Pacidal - Taiwan/Pangcah
Sammy Samoela - Madagascar/Merina

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