Future Fale

Future Fale

Future Fale

A digitally native, Pasifika-led platform disrupting systemic erasure by scaling media, strategy, and cultural power across global networks.

Seattle, WA, USA

USA

For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models

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Pacific Islanders face disappearing homelands, foreign military expansion, and climate displacement. Our communities are criminalized, under-resourced, and excluded from the systems that shape global policy, funding, and media. These conditions are the result of colonization, nuclear testing, and generations of systemic neglect. Across the U.S., its territories, Canada, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia, more than 6.1 million Pacific Islanders are impacted. In the U.S., we have the lowest business ownership rates and one of the highest poverty rates. In Victoria, Australia, Pasifika people are 0.1 percent of the population but make up 8.5 percent of youth in detention. In New Zealand, over half live in the most deprived areas, and one in four Pacific children lives in poverty. In the Islands, one in four people live below basic needs. Our erasure happens culturally and structurally. It blocks access to opportunity, resources, and decision-making power. The Future Fale responds by building a digitally native, Pasifika-led platform focused on visibility, economic opportunity, and cultural strategy that can scale. This work is about designing systems where Pacific Islanders define our own futures.

The Future Fale is a concept for a digital media and narrative strategy platform led by Pacific Islanders. It exists to support the stories we want to tell, not just the ones people expect to hear. It combines streamable content with movement-building. At its core, it’s a cultural space online where Pacific stories live. The site will feature short films, podcasts, essays, and vertical video, blending traditional knowledge and contemporary experience. But it is more than a place to publish. It is also a strategy house. We will partner with artists, organizers, educators, and institutions to shape how our stories show up in media, policy, and public life. The tech is lightweight and accessible. A mobile-first site, embedded content, a submission portal, and editorial tools. Distribution will happen through social platforms, creative networks, and licensing. The Future Fale is not a campaign or a content silo. It is a living space for cultural power. It offers Pacific people the tools, visibility, and ownership we’ve always deserved.

The Future Fale is a concept that will serve Indigenous Pacific peoples from the U.S. Pacific territories and the Pacific diaspora, including Kānaka Maoli, CHamoru, and tagata Sāmoa. We focus on Pasifika Gen Z and Millennials who live with cultural disconnection, media erasure, and political invisibility. There is no national media infrastructure for our people. We are misrepresented, collapsed into other categories, or left out entirely. This erasure shows up in data, funding, policymaking, and public memory. Diasporic youth carry ancestral knowledge but lack tools to develop, publish, and protect their own narratives. The Future Fale will build digital infrastructure for Pacific-led media, beginning with partnerships and licensed content. We will launch a pilot platform that hosts news, streamable video, editorial work, and vertical storytelling. A first cohort of creators will be supported with mentorship, publishing tools, and distribution pathways. This is not about inclusion. It is about control. The Future Fale will return narrative power to Pacific communities and build the systems needed to keep it. What has been missing is not talent or knowledge. What has been missing is infrastructure. This is how we build it.