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WHO Screening-Culture and Mental Health

Official Selection at LIDF, GIIFF, GIEFF & RPFF

Futa Helu’s After Dinner Speech: Tevolo and the Complexity of the Mind

Criticise Custom through Humour

I was in a museum in Gothenburg, Sweden. But for a long meaningful moment I was brought back to Tonga, through the powerful idea of comedy serving the same purpose worldwide and in different historical times.

Mathematics as Art

Archival recordings of Tonga are vital resources for further research and teaching. Experience a seminar at Atenisi in 1998 at a very particular time in its history and get a real taste of Professor Futa Helu’s wide intellectual interests.

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Exploring the use of video for social health and transformation

Tongan TV News Bulletin-20 Jan 2021

January 26, 2021

Trier Ethnographic Film Festival

January 25, 2021

Talanoa on Tongan TV

December 21, 2020

DER and SVA Talanoa on ‘The Healer and the Psychiatrist’ 10th December 2020

December 12, 2020

Talanoa at Brigham Young University and University of Hawaii

November 20, 2020

The Healer and the Psychiatrist at HIFF, Collected Voices and SVA Film Festival in November and December 2020

November 5, 2020

The Healer and the Psychiatrist–Return to Tonga

September 28, 2018

Tinitini Concert from 1988

December 14, 2015
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Video for Health and Social Transformation

Inspired by the use of video in Tonga to connect and serve the interests of community I called my company Potolahi Productions. Poto means socially astute, lahi means a lot. I am trying to live up to the name I gave myself. Visual anthropology is one of the key frames I locate my video projects and experiments. I am interested in video and visual anthropology for health and community. So co-creation and collaboration are key values in my work. This website is a way of understanding what I do and finding the values of video that serve the interests of research and transformation.

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