Thank you all for your alofa over the past few days.We are now half way from our goal! Please continue to show your support for our Boosted x Moana campaign and again FA'AFETAI LAVA to all who have already donated! Any donation no matter how big or small will help us reach our goal so please continue to show your support as we deeply appreciate all the love we have felt over the last few days already.📸: Captured by Roberta

We have hit 44 percent of our goal to make our video.  We have two weeks to go before our campaign ends but are still hoping to hit our target!  Thanks for the donations, we are truly grateful! 

I had so many beautiful people come through from Thursday - Tuesday to say goodbyes, have final coffees, and talk all things Japan. I have so much gratitude for the connections I have on the home Whenua, and the immense support I've had from all from professional to personal folks.  Tomorrow, in 12 hours, I leave on my flight for Japan for the foreseeable future. I know nobody there, I have no job to go too, and I have a whole lot of residencies, memories, and curiosities in the brain bank. It's risky, but I feel like it's the right move. For now. Ngā Mihi to all who've donated so far - we're already at 18% and it's only been 2 days! 

Kia ora everyone, It's Joyce here, Producer and creative budgeting expert. I wanted to say a huge thank you for your support with Beast Mode. Today we woke up and have officially reached 70% of our campaign goal. CRAZY! Your hard earned dollars are not going to waste, over the past few weeks we've locked our edit, and jumped into the next phase of post-production. From jumping into our first session with extraordinaire sound mixer David, and finalising our score with Bayker. It's been an amazing process to not only have the privilege to finish this film, but also to feel your support behind the kaupapa of the project.If you have capacity, we'd really appreciate you sharing our campaign with your networks to get us to 100%. Thank you once again.Joyce and the Beast Mode team. 

Kia ora,Joyce here, Producer on Beast Mode and creative wife to Chye-Ling. On the 8th March, the world celebrated International Women's Day. It's a day to commemorate women's fight for equality and liberation, and to draw attention to issues that our communities are facing. On social media we released a statement and I thought it'd be awesome to share with our amazing donors.As a proud supporter of Beast Mode, I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting the mission to fuel more open and healing conversations around sexual assault and violence against women.Boosted is a all or nothing platform, the fact we're still $1000 away from completing our campaign is definitely daunting. But with 5 days left we are confident we can make it, if you could share our campaign and help get us to 100% we would be incredibly grateful. See you at the top!Joyce.

I forgot to mention, the movie has a new title - The People We Love

Hi folksWe have a release date! - May 1. Our self-distribution campaign, with my wife Sharon at the helm, has got us into 20 cinemas nationwide, with more to come.The publicity campaign starts mid March, and we're all set to go.So look out for it!

Hey folks, the saga continues. Our movie is all finished now, and we had a very successful cast/crew/investor screening in Wellington a few weeks ago. Lots of praise for the movie, and a theatre owner very interested in screening it. Local distribution continues to be thorny and we'll be looking to do a limited release in Wellington to begin with later in the year. In the meantime here's the trailer for you to cast your eyes over!

Neill Rea (The Brokenwood Mysteries) talks about the script, his character, and the reason he decided to join the project