Loading Docs 2016 - How Mr and Mrs Gock Saved the Kumara

Web (Full Length) – 2016

Sixty-five years of life are condensed into three minutes in this 2016 Loading Doc, which profiles two pioneering kumara growers and Kiwi characters: Fay and Joe Gock. The Gocks were refugees from the Japanese invasion of China, who met in 1953. It was then illegal for Chinese to own land, but they went on to became the largest market gardeners in Mangere. In 2013 they won Horticulture New Zealand’s highest honour. Told as a poem, narrated by Ian Mune, the film was directed by commercials director and ex Cassandra's Ears bass player, Felicity Morgan-Rhind.

We shot over two 12 hour days, and at 83 and 87 years old Fay and Joe didn’t miss a beat. In fact they were still up for a party at the end of the shoot! And this is the way they live their lives: fully connected and energetic.
– Director Felicity Morgan-Rhind