Faifua Amiga

Faifua Amiga won acclaim with Kingpin - his first film role - at the age of 14. Four years later, he took centre stage in the Samoan feature film Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree.

At the heart of it is a terrific performance from Faifua Amiga. His Pepe is a soul in torment, at war with himself and with the alienating cultural ideals of the colonising Palagi. Costa Botes, reviewing Flying Fox