Digital and Film
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Digital and Film *
Digital storytelling as memory work, media resistance, and Indigenous futurism. These projects span documentary, film residencies, web platforms, and short-form commissions. Each project explores how digital tools can be reclaimed for connection, cultural revival, and creative sovereignty.
Pūlotu
2025 • Aotearoa-wide (in post-production)
Format: Three-part mini documentary series
Role: Writer, Director and Producer
Summary: A documentary exploring the role of Indigenous Pacific performing arts in revitalising language and memory. Filmed across Aotearoa with community knowledge holders, artists, and performers.
Partners: Pacific Media Network, Ministry for Pacific Peoples (Moana Reo Fund)
Ceguva
2023–2024 • Digital Residency
Format: 2-year digital residency with workshops, research, zine & app prototype
Role: Lead Artist & Facilitator
Summary: A digital platform and process-based residency connecting artists exploring Indigenous digital futures, data sovereignty, and creative coding.
Partners: Critical Path, Creative Australia
Au mino nanuma
2022 • BLEED Festival (online)
Format: Commissioned digital work, website
Role: Created by Natasha Ratuva and Joji Ratuva
Summary: Original commissioned work exploring digital grief, diasporic memory, and speculative pasts
Partners: Arts House, BLEED Festival
Scrubbers
2023 • Narrative screen project
Format: Scripted series in development
Role: Creator/Writer & Director
Summary: Created by Iya Ware, and shortlisted for Digital Originals 2023, Scrubbers follows two Islander families running a Black-owned roadhouse on the remote Nullabor plains. Situated along the East–West highway, the roadhouse becomes a magnet for truckies, tourists, wild animals - and misfits. A darkly comedic setting for unexpected encounters and stranger truths.
Partners: SBS Australia, Screen Australia, Vuku Creative Studio