Neti Fa’au
Neti Fa’au currently works as a researcher and director of online content for Attitude, a Christchurch-based production company specialising in documentaries for and about people living with disabilities.
She started with Attitude on a six-month internship through Broadcasting School and is now employed by the company.
“I’ve worked on over twenty of the main 30 minute docos which air weekly on TV ONE, and countless shorter online and promotional videos,” she says. “I initially started as a researcher and was gifted more and more opportunities. I record field sound and produce web content. I got to try my hand at getting behind the camera and I trained as a director on one of the documentaries which broadcast on national television.”
Neti says this year she’s been given the opportunity to get out on her own and direct as well. “It’s been the most rewarding experience working here and learning from some of the most experienced and knowledgeable people in the industry. It's a collective effort to give the one billion people who live with a disability the recognition they deserve, and it’s taken me all over New Zealand and overseas.”