The first Samoan-language feature, The Orator, debuted to acclaim at the Venice Film Festival this week. Helen Barlow reports. Director Tusi Tamasese spoke almost too quietly while presenting his film ...

For over a decade, Peter Tamasese greeted passengers, conducted safety demonstrations and shuffled food and beverages down the aisles as a flight attendant in the skies above the Pacific. Upeti boards ...

Samoan director Tusi Tamasese's debut feature "The Orator" enters the Academy Award conversation. By Pip Bulbeck The debut film from Tusi Tamasese, starring Sanote, is the first to be shot in the ...

THE BACKLOT: Samoan director Tusi Tamasese enters Oscar's foreign-language race with "The Orator." By Pip Bulbek The debut film from Tusi Tamasese, starring Sanote, is the first to be shot in the ...

A Samoan 'traditional healer' who told Hack he has been telling people to not vaccinate their children in the midst of a measles outbreak that has killed 62 people so far has been arrested. On ...

The first time Tusi Tamasese witnessed the skills of an orator, he was transfixed but also nonplussed. He understood the role that the great chief-of-words played in his tribal culture but the ...

Samoan authorities have arrested a prominent anti-vaccination activist amid an outbreak that has killed at least 63 people, most of them children. Edwin Tamasese has been charged with "incitement ...

More stories by Nigel M. Why He’s On Our Radar: After a successful bow at the Venice Film Festival, first-time feature filmmaker Tusi Tamasese is in Park City with “The Orator,” which New Zealand ...

Jefferson offensive lineman Lofi Tamasese accepted a scholarship offer Monday from the United States Military Academy. After completing the requirements for his bachelor’s of science degree at West ...

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