{"id":498,"date":"2009-08-06T21:13:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T09:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/about\/"},"modified":"2020-12-29T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T21:46:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/David-375.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5113 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DFM-2.jpg?resize=525%2C350\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, David Fa&#8217;auliuli Mamea (Safune\/Safotu, Samoa) worked in a number of offices for over a decade before throwing it all in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yoobee.ac.nz\/campuses\/south-seas-film-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then he has worked on film, television, theatre and radio projects in genres ranging from sci-fi to soap, comedy to horror, and documentary to drama. He is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter with an MA from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgtn.ac.nz\/modernletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IIML<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He and his Lovely Wife live in Te Tai Tokerau Northland with their dogs, cat, ponies, chickens, kunekune pigs and sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to <a href=\"mailto:info@dfmamea.com\">say kia ora<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, David Fa&#8217;auliuli Mamea (Safune\/Safotu, Samoa) worked in a number of offices for over a decade before throwing it all in for film school. Since then he has worked on film, television, theatre and radio projects in genres ranging from sci-fi to soap, comedy to horror, and documentary to drama. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5901,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498\/revisions\/5901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}