Will Ilolahia talking about the HERBS: Songs of Freedom film which will premiere at the New Zealand International Film Festival at The Civic in Auckland on August 3 rd ahead of a nationwide general release on August 15th .
Directed by Tearepa Kahi (Poi E: The Story of Our Song), HERBS: Songs of Freedom brings together the band’s key living members in an emotional round of interviews, jams and memories culminating in a reunion concert. 40 years on from the formation of the band in the heat of the 1970s Dawn raids and the Bastion Point occupation, the film documents the band in the context of music as social activism.