Warriors in Transit is a 1992"Feature Film List: LIT 3626 Hawaii and the Pacific in Film", Hawai'i Pacific University Papua New Guinea theatrical television series (or televised play), written and directed by William Takaku and Albert Toro."Warriors in Transit: Theatre in Papua New Guinea", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 18 October 2000 It consists in eight episodes, lasting twenty-five minutes each. It was the first ever "broadcast-length drama wholly conceived and produced by Papua New Guineans". Its production cost approximately €125,000."Melanesia report", UNESCO, September 1993, p. 26
The series "depicts political duplicity and the disintegration of a family in the Port Moresby settlements". Its central characters are parents who attempt, unsuccessfully, to look after their sick child. Takaku has stated that the parents' characters represent the Papua New Guinean government, while the child represents the nation.
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