Samoa, 30 September 2009 at 6:48am NZDT myself and Samuel Richards were awoken to an 8.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. We abandoned our television commercial task we were there for and rushed to the effected area to help. We had an 18 hour lead on journalists and media arriving and sold footage to TVNZ. When they arrived we didnt like their doom gloom portrayal and their media immediate effect on tourism with cancellations. We made this video, donating the media to Reuters for a significant donation to Samoan Red Cross and tsunami recovery.

 

The Portal Project.Turalei, South Sudan, 2015. Samuel Riachards invited me to join him back packing across South Sudan in a random act of kindness. Samuel would donate a self contained outdoor cinema to a group of impoverished orphans in the North of South Sudan. Not wanting to express our journey as a ‘white priviledge’ story of us, Samuel created this short video as representative of our trip.

 

Stranded in Koh Phangan, Thailand, for nine months during COVID, we created “Our Happiness Journal”. A social experiment dedicated to all things happy & it’s meaning; sharing 100% happy, non-commercial happiness.

Click the image or here to go to Our Happiness Journal interviews

And here for “The General Grant, where it is’nt” Our Hollywood award winning documentary (Not humanitarian)