Polynesia

The production cost was $75 million. Introducing rookie Hawaiian teenager Auli‘i Cravalho, 15, and famous actor Dwayne Johnson, of Samoan heritage. One movie critic calls it: “Proof you don’t need white heroes to star in a hit movie.”

The meeting is an initiative of the government of New Zealand, and will engage the leaders of the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue and Tokelau.

The Cook Islands Prime Minister, Henry Puna, will be joining to discuss the prospects of connectivity to a broadband submarine cable.

The archbishop of Polynesia, right reverend Winston Halapua, says the areas that he walked and fished as a boy with his father, seeking food for the family, on the island of Pangaimotu in Tonga, have now gone.

He says for some in Polynesia the truth is as plain as writing on the wall.