How Mr and Mrs Gock Saved the Kumara
Felicity Morgan-Rhind / Arani Cuthbert
Running
time:
4 mins
Fay and Joe Gock are quite simply beyond inspiring. Having escaped the Japanese Invasion of China, they fell in love in 1950’s New Zealand. And it seems that nothing, even the fact that owning land was illegal for the Chinese at this time could stop these two from becoming the largest and most sharing kumara growers in New Zealand.
Season 3
-
Blood Sugar
Four-year-old Dahlia takes us into her bittersweet world of blood, needles and sugar.
-
Street Smart
Regina Tito looks back at her life on the streets and delivers an image society desperately needs to see.
-
Imagine the World is Ending
Two schoolboys channel poetic frustrations about their inherited world into spoken word.
-
‘Aka’ōu: Tātatau in the Cook Islands
An unlikely master of traditional Polynesian art Tātatau, seeks to pass his legacy to an apprentice.
-
Water for Gold
Unveiling the grim reality where trade laws compromise our right to clean water in the search of gold.
-
Same but Different
Two best friends navigate the evolving landscape of their bond as one embraces her true gender identity.
-
How Mr and Mrs Gock Saved the Kumara
In the 1940s, two young Chinese refugees found an unlikely way to repay New Zealand's welcome.
-
Mister Sunshine
Meet the millionaire who became a shoeshine man peddling goodwill and cheer throughout Auckland.
-
Bludgeon
A knight-in-waiting faces his demons to lead the Steel Thorns in the intense world of medieval combat.
-
The Colourist
Grace Rawson revisits the art of hand-tinted photography, a craft she mastered in the 1950s with Whites Aviation.