Mob Daughters

www.frontofthebox.co.nz Taken from the documentary Mob Daugters Directed by Makarita Urale,for Front of the Box Productions. Executive Producer Claudtette Hauiti Twin sisters Selina and Alexia tell their story of growing up in the Mongrel Mob gang, in the half-hour documentary "Mob Daughters. 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.