The New Zealand Film Commission is funding the film 'Vai', that depicts the life of the title character.
Its producers said Vai aims to give voice to a largely under-represented group: Pacific women.
Vai is an eight-part story written and directed by different women film-makers from around the Pacific and will be shot in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, New Zealand, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tonga.
Tonga's 'Ofa-ki-Levuka Guttenbeil Likiliki will write and direct of one of the eight parts.
