Seinafolava Sanele Chadwick has worked as a journalist for the past decade. He started in the TV3 Newsroom in Auckland as a reporter and has worked on Firstline, 6pm and Nightline. After a stint in the mainstream newsroom, Sanele left to pursue a career in long-form storytelling with the Tagata Pasifika crew in 2013.

Since then he has shot, produced, directed and edited a number of television pieces and now works as a freelance content creator in Kapiti, Wellington.

He is a graduate of the New Zealand Broadcasting School, where he was awarded the John Foy Memorial Award for excellence in radio news in 2011. He also has an Arts degree in film and religious studies from Victoria University.

Sanele is of Samoan descent and holds the matai title Seinafolava from the village of Lano in Savai'i. He is from the villages of Afega and Lotofaga, Aleipata.

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