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

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)

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

– Mia's brother on their father

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)