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Reviewed by: Tonga: The Last Place on Earth dir. by Phil Travis Lea Lani Kauvaka Tonga: The Last Place on Earth. Documentary film, 57 minutes, color, 2013. Written and directed by Phil Travis; produced by The Mission, inc; distributed by Pacific Islanders in Communications, Honolulu. Available at http://vimeo.com/ondemand/lastplace/76883759. Rental, us $3.99. Against the backdrop of increasingly fraught relationships between US immigration and criminal justice policies as experienced by Pacific Islanders, including Tongans living in the United States, Pacific Islanders in Communication and pbs Hawaii bring us a disturbingly shallow and distorted documentary of Tongan gangs and US deportation called Tonga: The Last Place on Earth. Produced and broadcast as part of the second season of Pacific Heartbeat, a series that promises a “glimpse of the real Pacific,” what Tonga: The Last Place actually does is perpetuate the same racialized animus that has enabled the United States’ media and ju
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Reviewed by: Tonga: The Last Place on Earth dir. by Phil Travis Lea Lani Kauvaka Tonga: The Last Place on Earth. Documentary film, 57 minutes, color, 2013. Written and directed by Phil Travis; produced by The Mission, inc; distributed by Pacific Islanders in Communications, Honolulu. Available at http://vimeo.com/ondemand/lastplace/76883759. Rental, us $3.99. Against the backdrop of increasingly fraught relationships between US immigration and criminal justice policies as experienced by Pacific Islanders, including Tongans living in the United States, Pacific Islanders in Communication and pbs Hawaii bring us a disturbingly shallow and distorted documentary of Tongan gangs and US deportation called Tonga: The Last Place on Earth. Produced and broadcast as part of the second season of Pacific Heartbeat, a series that promises a “glimpse of the real Pacific,” what Tonga: The Last Place actually does is perpetuate the same racialized animus that has enabled the United States’ media and ju
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