Last Shot at Messenger (2023)

Tony Pascoe is a generational cattle farmer who lives in the beautiful Mangapēpeke Valley, Taranaki. Waka Kotahi - the New Zealand Transport Agency - are actively destroying virgin native wetland by building the Mt Messenger bypass which will save 7 minutes and forcefully remove Tony from his whenua.

In a theatre of iwi/hapū politics, precious freshwater reserves, and a NZD$250 million dollar bypass, this film is Tony's last shot at saving one of the last major wetlands in Aotearoa New Zealand and defending the land.

'Last Shot at Messenger' was selected for DocEdge Festival 2023, New Zealand's premier documentary festival, Māoriland Film Festival 2024, the largest indigenous film festival in the world, and the Lift-off Berlin Film Festival.