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From: Lisa Williams-Lahari <lisa.lahari@gmail.com>
Date: 8 March 2010 19:03
Below is a tribute written for Tam byTVNZ Pacific correspondant Barbara Dreaver, who was part of a TVNZ team who worked with him when TVNZ donated live equipment to tv stations in the region. He is featured on an item which will run tonight on TVNZ news. As anyone who has been to Rarotonga knows, when bright lights like Tamarii are taken so soon, the whole island is covered in tears.
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From: Lisa Williams-Lahari <lisa.lahari@gmail.com>
Date: 8 March 2010 19:03
Those who were in Port Vila for PINA 09 would not fail to remember the energy and smiling face of Cook Islands TV cameraman Tamarii Pierre, who died over the weekend in a car crash. Tamarii also featured in a Tagata Pasifika special on the Cooks, as part of a TV station where he and other young Cook Isalnders got on the job training and developed a passion for their industry.
Below is a tribute written for Tam byTVNZ Pacific correspondant Barbara Dreaver, who was part of a TVNZ team who worked with him when TVNZ donated live equipment to tv stations in the region. He is featured on an item which will run tonight on TVNZ news. As anyone who has been to Rarotonga knows, when bright lights like Tamarii are taken so soon, the whole island is covered in tears.
Below is the post from Babs which will feature on the TVNZ website. Like her, and with the regional media family Tamarii met through his TV 'mum' Shona Pitt, we extend our condolences, prayers and thoughts at this sad time to his parents and family. And to his media family in the Cook Islands. He rests in love, and leaves his special touch upon our lives.
lis.
There's this kid Tamarii - young, bright with a smile as wide as the
sea.
Between him and two other reporters at Cook Islands Television they do
everything to get their news to air every night. When I say everything I
mean everything - they interview, they film, they write, they edit, they
present. Somehow they put together half an hour of local news five
nights a week.
It was into this environment Television New Zealand gifted an O-band
kit. A portable kit that would allow CITV to broadcast live.
Tamarii did CITV's very first live cross breaking into programmes from
the Police Emergency Centre interviewing Superintendent Isemaela about a
developing tropical depression and the damage done by Cyclone Pat in the
Northern Cook Islands. We did a rehearsal and Tamarii was sweating fear
as he stumbled over his words knowing that he would have no second
chance when we went to air. Then came the countdown, he looked at the
camera, took a deep breath and he was off. He was flawless, it was a
class act. When it was over there was much laughter and he looked at me
with triumph blazing from his eyes. I'll never forget that moment. He'd
just made history in the Cook Islands and he knew it. There's nothing
like doing a live cross with adrenalin pumping, nerves pounding and
shaky knees. Public humiliation lurks very close but afterwards there is
no feeling like it.
It was a feeling echoed in television stations in Samoa and Tonga where
we also donated live kits. Apia Broadcasting (TV3) not only did their
first live cross, they broadcast their entire News live for the first
time. The team in there led by Karl and Analisa totally made it happen
with a commitment which left us, the training team, reeling with
exhaustion and elation.
And the Tonga newsroom - those girls in there Vui, Salote and co are a
force to be reckoned with. They took to it like ducks to water while
Solo and his team worked into the wee hours to find technical solutions
that comes hand in hand with having next to no equipment.
For the TVNZ team it was a great experience giving the island stations
resources so they can provide a crucial service for their country. We
loved it. And for me it was extra special working with my friends and
colleagues in a region which is my own.
And so we come back to our Cook Islands star Tamarii, the young man
filled with energy and a passion for life. He was killed this weekend in
a car accident. It feels like a kick in the guts. No parent should have
to bury their treasured child especially good parents like Tam and Ipu.
But there's more because to us, Tamarii represented what the TVNZ
project was about. It was about taking talent and running with it, it
was about developing the skills of exceptional people, our young pacific
people. It was about hope. And Tamarii held the banner for all those
things.
We extend our deepest condolences to the Pierre family.
Barbara Dreaver
Pacific Correspondent
D. 64 9 916 7073
F. 64 9 916 7325
M. 64 21 418908
barbara.dreaver@tvnz.co.nz
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There's this kid Tamarii - young, bright with a smile as wide as the
sea.
Between him and two other reporters at Cook Islands Television they do
everything to get their news to air every night. When I say everything I
mean everything - they interview, they film, they write, they edit, they
present. Somehow they put together half an hour of local news five
nights a week.
It was into this environment Television New Zealand gifted an O-band
kit. A portable kit that would allow CITV to broadcast live.
Tamarii did CITV's very first live cross breaking into programmes from
the Police Emergency Centre interviewing Superintendent Isemaela about a
developing tropical depression and the damage done by Cyclone Pat in the
Northern Cook Islands. We did a rehearsal and Tamarii was sweating fear
as he stumbled over his words knowing that he would have no second
chance when we went to air. Then came the countdown, he looked at the
camera, took a deep breath and he was off. He was flawless, it was a
class act. When it was over there was much laughter and he looked at me
with triumph blazing from his eyes. I'll never forget that moment. He'd
just made history in the Cook Islands and he knew it. There's nothing
like doing a live cross with adrenalin pumping, nerves pounding and
shaky knees. Public humiliation lurks very close but afterwards there is
no feeling like it.
It was a feeling echoed in television stations in Samoa and Tonga where
we also donated live kits. Apia Broadcasting (TV3) not only did their
first live cross, they broadcast their entire News live for the first
time. The team in there led by Karl and Analisa totally made it happen
with a commitment which left us, the training team, reeling with
exhaustion and elation.
And the Tonga newsroom - those girls in there Vui, Salote and co are a
force to be reckoned with. They took to it like ducks to water while
Solo and his team worked into the wee hours to find technical solutions
that comes hand in hand with having next to no equipment.
For the TVNZ team it was a great experience giving the island stations
resources so they can provide a crucial service for their country. We
loved it. And for me it was extra special working with my friends and
colleagues in a region which is my own.
And so we come back to our Cook Islands star Tamarii, the young man
filled with energy and a passion for life. He was killed this weekend in
a car accident. It feels like a kick in the guts. No parent should have
to bury their treasured child especially good parents like Tam and Ipu.
But there's more because to us, Tamarii represented what the TVNZ
project was about. It was about taking talent and running with it, it
was about developing the skills of exceptional people, our young pacific
people. It was about hope. And Tamarii held the banner for all those
things.
We extend our deepest condolences to the Pierre family.
Barbara Dreaver
Pacific Correspondent
D. 64 9 916 7073
F. 64 9 916 7325
M. 64 21 418908
barbara.dreaver@tvnz.co.nz
==========================================================
For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us
online at tvnz.co.nz
==========================================================
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is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s). This information
is not to be used or stored by any other person and/or organisation.
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Lisa Williams-Lahari
cell: (64) 0210642704
"More and more, if you're not in the digital conversation about your community, you're not in a conversation that matters"
-- Alberto Ibargüen, President, The Knight Foundation.
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