When disaster strikes, a community rises!

In the face of New Zealand's largest pollution disaster, a community unites to save their treasured coast, but divisions grow with the ongoing fight to remove the wreckage and restore the environment.

Taking Back Our Beach is a feature film documentary that looks at the Bay of Plenty community’s response to the 2011 MV Rena grounding on Òtàiti / Astrolabe Reef and the subsequent oil and debris disaster, as seen through the eyes of that community.