Your soup caused an ecological disaster. Pass the salt?
The Politics of Toheroa Soup is Tiana Trego Hall’s personal story of her whānau and their traditional kai, the protected giant surf clam, toheroa. Once a plentiful food source for iwi across New Zealand toheroa were gathered to near collapse after word of their deliciousness spread around the world.
Direction
Trego Hall turns family recipe into national elegy.
Cinematography
Intimate close-ups that make shellfish feel ancestral.
Director
Tiana Trego Hall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Toheroa soup was served to Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, sparking global demand that collapsed wild populations within decades.
The film's title weaponizes the mundane—'politics' and 'soup'—to expose how ecological violence hides in dinner tables.
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