Our Dream
Mother Africa feeds the planet today resources wise. Despite exploitation, it is our connection to earth reflective of the Maori we do not seek to conquer others but enhance spirituality. We saw a void in New Zealand TV & Film collectives to understand we need each other despite weaponisation of Identity (Race, Gender & Politics) that occurs in Hollywood. Inclusion (to exclude others) is not inclusive. New Zealand Film & TV has the opportunity spirituality wise to turn a new leaf fern with social impact without deviseness. In turn, this will enhance the lives of thousands of families and youth in the creative arts. Reach one, teach one through ethical progression and direct practice.
The Pacific African TV & Film Collective is here to provide a voice for Pan-African and other marginalised communities for a sustainable future in New Zealand Television and Film. Together, we will facilitate rich story-telling and creative opportunities through workshops, focus groups for career advancement. While fostering relationships with fellow Asia-Pacific collectives and building connections in our local community we can establish more global inclusion of migrants systemic marginalised on-screen. This will provide diverse story telling that is beyond tokenisation of our skin colour, cuisines or sexuality, but also our spirituality. Reflecting our diverse thoughts, stories, families with common unity (Community) that come with any ethnicity from Africa, Europe, Asia, Middle East to Mid-West of North and South America.
What we do
We plan and support amazing projects that help change the lives of disadvantaged communities among various ethic groups globally, with African Spirit. Cinema has influence on communities that need opportunity to show there is enough light for us all. Noam Chomsky stated "He who controls images, controls minds".
African's and others 1st impressions have been gate-kept and controlled by the founders of Hollywood from Eastern European Jewish descent.
For a better tomorrow, we must counteract "tell-a-visions" mistakes on who gets to tell the vision by sharing authenticity. Authenticity with other cultures in mind and in the conversation with who is perceived as local will solidify New Zealand's progressive international impression.
The Power of a Picture. 1 photograph from Africa changed the World
The 1st Image to go global was the appalling treatment of Congo's rubber slave workers under King Leopard in 1904, after the
Berlin Conference of 1884.
The 1st Image to go global was the appauling treatment of Congo’s rubber slave workers under King Leopard in 1904, after the effects of The Berlin Conference of 1884. This was the world’s first photographic human rights campaign by photographer Alec Seeley Harris of a man named Nsala, his wife and 5-year old daughter Boali’s severed hand and foot. This caused outrage in Europe of the grim effects of Colonisation and Europe’s decision to carve up Africa, without any African leaders involved following the horrors of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Motion Picture has undoubtly a profound global impression, depending on who is “Telling The Vision” on “Tell-A-Vision”, through “channels”, for “programming” on “networks” not operated by many ethnicities on-screen. Ethnicities now reduced today as just “content” on streaming services.
The Power of Motion Picture. African American Exploitation in Cinema
African American culture (Like the American Dream) is creation of Cinema and Jewish Idea's of what African Americans behave like. Social movements are exploited for monetisation.
As a descendant of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, this motivated me to understand the positive and negative effects images can have on the mind.
The effects of earlier Minstrel Shows of African Americans at the start of Hollywood deeply affected my people’s confidence and public perception on an international level. Due to this, post-civil rights not being received by African Americans, we were so desperate to humanise ourselves Hollywood Studios ought to exploit our images as they were losing money to Colour Television. A genre called “Blaxploitation” (African American Poverty Exploitation) was invented and marketed the drug dealers as heroes while making prostitution with human trafficking, gambling, alcohol fashionable. Today, my community is suffering from the effects of these tropes being marketed as a the image of my people, that a second wave of “blaxploitation” came with HipHop and my people never recovered.
Today, we are often used for Weaponisation of “Identity” for a reverse-racism and alternative sexual agendas. Exploitation has expanded into “Reality TV”, giving unknown African Americans in “Love and HipHop”, “Basketball Wives” and more platform to be exploited on loose contracts, for manufactured antics. Subsidisation for exploitation which leaves them at the mercy of “being chosen” for an opportunity. With financing, the African American community based on the studio structure and who owns it, they have been absentee in the financing a mostly freelance, gig-based business that not only impacts them socially. Below is a timeline of our image and the lack of control over our image, the perception that has influenced popular culture and denigration of the African American community and African Image by use of “entertainment”. Do we like the vision being told on “Tell-A-Vision”? Most do not.
Edward Bernays, Sigmund Fraud. Psychology as tool to Manipulate The Masses to be attached to " Group Identification"
1915 during World War 1 was the 1st time a government used Mass Media was weaponised to gain support for World War 1. Later, propaganda was delivered by a "suit", beholden to their news media conglomerate or studio's shareholders. Social Engineering for control and Political Agenda's has a need for propaganda. They need public opinion to succeed.
Today, you are exposed to 4000 to 10,000 Advertisements per-day through Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Radio and Television. You think you are determining your own ideas, but you're being targeted through human emotional fragility to associate to a brand "identity".
American culture prevades through the world through Media. There is consorted effort control and regiment the planet through "Group Psychology. "Race Caste" systems with DEI has become pivotal to controlling the planet. To stereotype themselves and others to no end while amplifying polarising differences. Arrogantly, manipulated to have an enlarged sense of "self importance" by Identity.
In identifying with a group, the individual unconsciously subordinates self-analysis and a discerning search for the truth ..in favour of "maintaining group interest and cohesion" to not be the outlier. You operate as a pack, to no end while being disagreeable for self preservation instead of common unity.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed I, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.” (Propaganda, Edward Bernays)
- “concerned with the individual man as a member of a race, of a nation, of a caste, of a profession, of an institution, or as a component part of a crowd of people who have been organised into a group at some particular time for some definite purpose.” (Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Sigmund Freud)
- “A group is extraordinarily credulous and open to influence” (The Analysis of the Ego, Sigmund Freud)
- “invisible government who controls the destinies of millions”
- To get women to smoke cigarettes, he created the “torches of freedom” March on the Easter Sunday Parade of 31 March 1929. It was labeled the beginning of 1st wave feminism and the emancipation of women, but in reality it was the manipulation of women to operate like men.
“There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
Feminism for example, was long thought out to divide the population, whilst wealth families maintain power by Illuminati founder and Freemason Adam Weishaupt stating : “These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.”
~ ADAM WEISHAUPT
An age old tactic of dividing the population into conflicting groups. This has dire consequences for a stable and free society, without the general public understanding what is taking place.
During African American slavery, European and Jewish slave masters would seperate African Americans according to “Field Slave and House Slave”. House slave would have inclusion and privilege often from SA abuse or child being born under mixed race. It was unfettered abuse in a modern time and a glimpse of control unregulated of ancient times on a population that was not the kings own ethnic group. He would come home and get a report on both groups and sleep like an infant knowing the two would police each other. This is what took place during the C-19 Pandemic, with vaccinated and unvaccinated, divorces and families broken but now were walking free with a virus made to sound apocalyptic but played out like a social experiment against human+kind’s “group thinking” behaviour for self preservation. Taking advantage of humanities need to “identify” as vaccinated, it created a mass psychosis to giving up civil liberties under the guise of “safety”.
In the modern day, there appears to be forces operating through the mainstream media and popular culture, which are attempting to increase the individuals proclivity to engage in “certain types of ” group identification. An example, is yearly media conglomerates controlled by certain interest will mass-market an African American being shot in a police interaction (which hundreds take place allover the United States, not distinct in ethnicity) as a reminder of civil rights not attained for African Americans. When in reality, civil rights were attained, but for Gods Chosen people via. the ADL of B’nai B’rith, who early attached themselves to African Americans through Judah Benjamin and Albert Pike forming the KKK, then later co-opting African American civil rights to bankroll the NAACP with African American Prince Hall Freemason and Boule Member W.E.B Du Bois. Today, ADL of B’nai B’rith & The NAACP operate as extortion rackets by weaponising Identity (Race, Politics, Gender). W.E.B Du Bois being a Boule Member and Freemason aligned himself with creating a newly established idea of a “Talent Ten” percent of “Chosen African Americans” to build an aristocracy gatekeeping the African American masses on the behalf of Freemasons and their allegiance to Isreal and the Jews.
Unable to settle differences and rational discourse, groups whose belief structures clash choose to revert to more destructive means in their attempt to defeat those they perceive as a threat. The population as a whole becomes weaker. you can see that during an election year. Eyes are diverted from the leaders and now corporations working behind the scenes. “The Invisible Government who controls the destiny of millions ” (Edward Bernays). The hysteria behind Donald Trump
There ia nothing around with being proud of your ethnic upbringing or have a sense of belonging but it is being manipulated. Being aware of yourself as a invidiual, away from a group or tribe is recent advent of “individualism” of the Western World to achieve, colonise at the expense of others. Sometimes, it would be with killing within European families. You must be privy of how “Tribalism” devoid of “common+unity” on biological needs of food, clothing, shelter. An example might be your empathy for immigration or feeding the homeless, however when your border is being flooded in already fractured society, differences intentionally polarised (based on Identity) you must be aware of this. Individual rights in America is exploited. Group think is a regression of consciousness into primitive savagery. Groups operating in pacts are embolden by emotional fragility and false sense of confidence to behave irrational while in a pact.
Divide and Conquer
Race and the Weaponisation of Identity over ethnicity (Humanising). We want "Inclusion without Exclusion"
I am not black. I am African.
Below are 3 Steps which lead to "The invention of Race".
Greek "Chosen Ideology" and German Jewish "Racial Caste" systems have destroyed social cohesiveness as long as we subscribe to them. Understanding ethnicity and nationality instead of "Identity" helps human accountability for foreign policy. These two factors leave a historical paper trail on how we treat one another.
With our planet, we are stuck in a never ending culture war regarding manufactured social constructs not rooted in Biology. Race has been traumatising to Africans trafficked and today with Europeans who are recipients of counter exclusion, yet people refrain from questioning the origins of “Race”.
1. Egypt is responsible for Persian belief in Zoroastrianism yazata (Mithraism) along with Greece and Rome’s adoption of “Mithraism“. Saturn and Sun worship took place on December 25th and would later be incorporated in Christianity as the birthday of Jesus Christ and the phrase “Amen“, which is the Egyptian Sun God “Amun-Ra“. Greek Ideology pervades the Western world from Democracy to the belief of some being “Chosen by The Gods” & today, a Mithra statue called “The Statue of Liberty” sits on Ellis Island in New York Harbour. After the Greeks were at war with Babylonian Persia, they would borrowed masonic occultism, Chosen Ideology and Gods of Egypt from Egypts “Library of Alexandria” to create their own beliefs. This belief would ultimately their demise by the Roman Empire. Rome would then grab Greece’s system, adopt Mithraism and Greece’s belief in “Chosen Ideology” and use this to conquer all of Europe.
2. Rome would adopt Christianity, but mix Mithraism (Hence “Amen“) mentioned earlier and then fall to Germanic Vandals splitting the empire. Islam would bring Europe out of their dark ages with Islamic sciences, text with Islamic Moors ruling Western Europe from 711ad to 1492ad. In 750ad, Jewish turkic converts known as Khazars (Ashkenazi Jews) working as Merchants controlling the Silk Road and Volga Rive (Modern Day Ukraine) would married into the Byzantine empire with Theodora Khazar and Leo IV. They would then practice “Usery” on the behalf of the Rome, which was outlawed according to Catholicism if done by a catholic (same as Islam). By 1095ad, The Catholic Church was then revived in Normandy, vikings converted to Christianity but out of fear of Islam, Pope Urban 2nd would declaring war and start the crusades. Rome’ Catholic Church would form the Knights Templar (today’s Freemasons) would occupy Jerusalem and the knights would kill in the name of god (Ironically, a troupe perpetuated on muslims in media today). When the crusades ended in 1453ad by The Ottoman Empire taking Constantinople, Romes former Colonies were combating a sugarcane addiction from sugarcane brought back by their Knights Templar.
3. Colonisation – Rome’s former Colonies belief in “Chosen People”, determined to find a new route to India and began colonisation. Moors were expelled out of the Spain, and Portugal and Pope Nicolas V declared war on Africa and the Moors through Papal “Dum Diversas”. Jews were offered conversion or explosion, which lead to Christopher Columbus (Cologne) in 1492ad seeking to find a new route to India, Inspired by his love for Khazar Jew Marco Polo. Many Jew’s expelled would go to Holland (Forming the Dutch East & West India Company) creating capitalism. Other jews were welcomed into Turkey with Sabbati Zvi (Israel’s false prophet, who inspired Jacob Frank) but ones who remained would operate as Crypto-Jews, and become Slave Merchants for the Tran-Atlantic Slave Trade in the behalf of the Catholic Church and Alfonso V, with Nathan Rothschild later forming the Assiento.
The Invention of Race – After Catholic Church members discovered Catholic involvement in the Enslavement of Africans, a “Racial Caste” System was created were to dehumanise and justify the enslavement of Africans. German Anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach & August Ludwig Von Schlozer invented “Race According to Colour“ in 1779 and “Semitic” in 1781. Later, Austrian Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider coined the word “Anti-Semitism” in 1860.
Today – Colorisation has a profound effect on mostly Europeans and Africans to no resolve but many do not seek to understand its origins. Identity weaponisation with Race and Manufactured Gender wars keeps the underclass of society fighting, whiles the top wealthy families pass down assets through trusts and nepotism. Today, these matters have made for redundant art centred around victimisation on systems we are not obligated to abide by. Nationality and Ethnicity holds people accountable to their countries foreign policy on who they treat others in fairness.
Conclusion – “Identity” (Race, Sexuality, Politics) is a Trap which has had tragic reverberations socially on our planet. This has been perpetuated in media by the same community who worked as slave merchants and are the benefactors of being “Gods Chosen Victims” instead of accountability of how Chosen Ideology breeds narcism (Lack of Empathy). That approach to dealing with people would lead to explosion from 110 Countries. Today, we are inundated in oppression olympics that plays out in Entertainment, Banking with those who can holds the keys in the west to exclusion or inclusion, whilst coping in our debt and usury-driven world. My desire is to fix this, humanise each other beyond a painting each other or ourselves in one brush stroke. Ethnic groups have sovereign values, spirituality beyond invented “Identities”. We must work collaboratively with anyone keeping humanity at heart. As Africans, we have no desire to take away from others or be in games for an oppression olympics that undermines society. If the world’s wealthy shareholders can pass down their assets through trusts fund or nepotism [because true power is within the family structure], all of us should opt out of participating in racial or gender wars as we all need each other.
How Oceania numbers speak
We have numbers that push us to give in our best and make sure records for community and population is reflected on TV Screens. The Jewish community is 0.2% percent globally, but they make sure their voices are heard and do not need to fight for inclusion. This was reminder no matter the size of the community, your voice matters. Sovereignty is a beautiful thing however Tribalism fades where common unity resides. No matter who’s in a position of power or to claim “chosen”, we all get hungry, sleepy and have human needs that were in the arts together. Many ethnic groups in New Zealand were in the same boat less than 10 years ago. So in terms of decolonising the screen, equality may be impossible to ascertain because nothing in nature is equal. However, this does not mean we must take European stories away and call it progress. We desire to match metrics here as a reminder numbers are invaluable to the power of “one” image having uplifting or devastating consequences. The control of that image and making New Zealand a global destination reflective of the progression it advertises requires all numbers matter.
Where Oceania plays into common
unity
on-screen
New Zealand has a unique opportunity to be a force for change and mindfulness of rich cultural diversity that makes this youthful nation a wonder to the world.
Understanding the History of Cinema helps gauge how television in New Zealand can progress forward. Industries that have been unregulated have come to terms with the change of social media and accountability. Celebrity and “chosen people” culture creates a sense people are beyond reproach that has lead to the MeToo movement with Harvey Weinstein. However, the entertainment industry can selectively skipped over others and those who empowered with Sean Combs. Motion Picture is something we all love and with so much disarray, we have the opportunity to enhance society. Cultural sensitivities are nuanced but having dialogue and conversations help heal the type of messages we’re desiring to put out into the world. New Zealand has so much to gift to the world and others who admire the spirit of Mana here. Avoiding exclusionary behaviour, there is space, unique stories, perspectives and light for everyone. This is for families who attend Cinema and for the children of tomorrow.