Season 1

Pawa Meri (Powerful Women) is a six-part documentary series portraying the lives of six Papua New Guinean women who have each achieved extraordinary things in life. The women come from diverse backgrounds and represent a variety of themes relevant to development in PNG. Interviews with the women and those close to them create an intimate portrait of their achievements. As a collection of six, the filmic biographies are an important record of women’s lives in contemporary PNG.