Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

Tongan castaway story to be made into a Hollywood film

Hollywood studio New Regency has won the rights to make a film about the six Tongan teenagers stranded for 15 months on an uninhabited island in the mid-1960s. 55 years on and one of the six survivors, Tevita Siola’a, spoke to John Pulu about their adventure that will be on the big screen.

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