A new Tongan bilingual drama web series, 'Brutal Lives' will be released online on The Coconet TV [2] on August 5. 

Brutal Lives features Joe Folau, Albert Rounds, Sesilia Pusiaki, Jason Manumu’a, Saane Green, ‘Aisea Latu and Villa Junior Lemanu.

The 'Brutal Lives' facebook page reported that the series follows former prize-fighter, Soane ‘The Shark’ Valu who had the world at his feet until he lost it all.

After Soane’s father dies, he reluctantly returns to South Auckland from America to face his estranged sister, the three kids he left behind and “break the curse of his ancestors”.

The six-part web series also known in Tongan as 'Mo'ui Faingata'a' is the first Tongan bilingual drama funded by New Zealand On Air as part of its Pasifika and Asian Storytellers initiative.

Created and written by Vela Manusaute and Sandra Kailahi, the story was developed with the help of Michael Bennett.