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Emele Ugavule
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Emele Ugavule
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Film & Digital Media
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Publications & Writing

2025 Manufacturing Mythology: Letting Go of the Illusion of Disney, Seismic Temporal

2025 Stories as Systems of Knowledge: Indigenous memory making, knowledge transfer and narrative rights, Seismic Temporal

2024 Telling Truths During the Climate Crisis: Reflections on Oceanic Refractions

featuring conversation with AM Kanngieser and Mere Nailatikau, Issue #7, Transmediale

2024 Flesh as iYau, Pantograph Punch

2024 Everything That Moves, Moves Through Another: An Anthology from Mixed Heritage Creatives in Aotearoa, Selcouth Bird Press and 5ever Press

2020 Bad Fiji Gyals Are Not Here to Romanticize Girmit Histories, Talanoa

2020 To all the hands who found me, Brown Face, Cordite Poetry

2020 Birthing Ancestors, Talanoa

2020 Goodbye Papa, Dear Australia, Playwriting Australia and Monkey Baa Theatre Company

2020 Pause and Think Before you Rush Online, Witness Performance

2021 What is Story Sovereignty?, Studio Kiin

2019 Black Ties: A reflection, Witness Performance

2019 The real threat of climate change, The Saturday Paper

2019 It’s not enough to have diverse casts, we need diverse audiences, SBS Voices

2019 Is the actor an agent of colonisation who we are neglecting to address?, The Quo

Acknowledgement

I live and work on and between the lands, waterways and skies of Te Atiawa, Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika, Gadigal and Dharug Ngurra, Wurundjeri, Bindjareb Boodjar, Kairewa and Kaideuba.

I acknowledge these peoples are custodians of these lands, skies and waterways for time immemorial.