| Twin sisters Selina and Alexia tell their story of growing up in the Mongrel Mob gang, in the half-hour documentary "Mob Daughters," screened on TV2 in December 2006. Now in their early 20s, Selina and Alexia are "Mob Daughters" - their father is a life member of the Porirua Mongrel Mob. But their story has an interesting "nature versus nurture" twist. Selina was brought up by her mother and father. Alexia was sent away to live with her grand-parents. Selina has been in and out of trouble and had affiliations to teenage girl gangs; Alexia is a young Mum doing university studies. When you're part of a gang family, your relations and friends are gang people, and the connections are unavoidable. The twins talk about their love-hate relationship with their father's gang. They love their father, but they don't always like everything about his lifestyle. Director Makerita Urale says Selina and Alexia were a delight to interview. "It's incredible that children born into gang families, as Selina and Alexia were, can actually manage to survive and have positive life values despite growing up in such a brutal gang world. Like most gangs, the Mongrel Mob is a family, and that is what is so sad for some of these kids, that they can't get away from it." |
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Programme Info
| Duration: | 00:30 |
| Recommended Age: | 16+ |
| Subjects: | Maori |
| Categories: | Documentary |
| Catalogue: | Front of the Box Productions Ltd |
| Distributor: | e-cast |
| Download Price: | NZD $39.90 |
| Download Filesize: | N/A |
| DVD Price: | NZD $42.90 |
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