2022 Nominees

The Panthers

Tavake Limited, TVNZ, New Zealand On Air, Endeavour Content

NEW ZEALAND

- Limited Series

1974, Auckland, New Zealand. Will ‘Ilolahia, the black sheep of his Tongan family and "The Professor" of the streets, is sick of seeing his community stuck in a broken system. When Trump-esque Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, comes to power, he wreaks havoc; fueling the divide between white and Polynesian New Zealanders and commencing racially-targeted Immigration raids. Inspired by the Black Panther movement in the USA, Will and a group of young street gangsters and university students form The Polynesian Panthers, to fight the system and become the history-making Revolutionaries that their community so desperately need them to be.