Loading Docs 2021 - Only Human

I wanted to make this film because I was tired, tired of fighting people on social media, tired of reading shitty headline after shitty headline, and most of all, tired of being trolled by my own father.

– Director and subject Mia Maramara on why she made Only Human, The NZ Herald, 31 August 2021

Your parents tend to be your superheroes until they start doing the dumb things over and over again.

– Mia's brother on their father

Yeah, I noticed that you had some… not good feelings about me.

– Mia's father, Gus, when asked if he knew why she had blocked him on social media (0:25)

Once very couple of months my father and I called or texted. Eventually I grew up and moved to New Zealand, and the calls stopped, We let Facebook do the talking for us: a. no-strings-attached way of keeping in touch with the strangers I still called family.

– Mia describes the effects of moving to a new country, falling out of touch with family in the Phillipines (3:06)

My father laughed and said "Don’t worry, you’ll be glad for them some day. Or at least your boyfriend will."

– Mia describes her father's reaction to her anxiety about having large breasts

It's coming from me being a male chauvinist pig, right? So, but that's my background. That’s my generation —. doesn't make it right, but that's my instinct in short.

– Mia's father Gus, defends his beliefs and explaining them from his perspective (6:01)