News 2010 
‘Bastardy,’(0)
Or the story of Jack Charles, addicted to heroin, who has swung between life as a criminal and a successful acting career for 40 years, missed the FIFO 2010 jury grand prix by one single vote. It merits a closer look.
Interview with the director Amiel Courtin-Wilson.
How did you meet your key figure, this fabulous and [...]
The advent of electronic administration
Yesterday the fourth and last FIFO Digital Encounters debate tackled the theme of new inferred relations between the general public and administration with the advent of digital.
Philippe Machenaud, Government Secretary-General, Patricia Lincoln, Cabinet Director of the Ministry for the Development of the Louis Frébault Archipelagos, Eric Spitz, High Commissioner Secretary-General, Tearii Alpha, Minister of [...]
Digital creations and cultural content: an explosion!
This morning the last 2010 digital encounters forum took place.
Considering the new capabilities that digital resources offer, the means of artistic expression are exploding and the creations demand constant updating. Today Polynesia must find itself a means of existing on the network. Yes, but how? The objective of this meeting was to provide some [...]
Lyn Collie
She produced ‘Te Henua E Hono,’ ‘There Once was an Island,’ the FIFO 2010 jury grand prix laureate. An interview was squeezed in between two glasses of champagne.
Once upon a time there was Takuu, a small island off Papua New Guinea, lost in the Pacific. How did you discover it?
The film director Briar March, read an [...]
This is the end…
A large and full theatre, a smiling, moved and proud jury, a Maison de la Culture in full bloom, cheerful chants, dances full of grace and energy, extracts from winning films inciting people to see them…The FIFO 2010 prize-giving ceremony evening merits sharing.
As is the custom, the suspense was held until the end for the [...]
Digital Images and Writing
The last professional meeting in the heart of FIFO’s 7th edition about the question of digital: is it going to kill print, the radio, writing and photography?
How do editors, writers and journalists…perceive digital’s advance and what equilibrium is forming between these forms of expression and digital technology?
At first glance we are fearful and believe that [...]
Professional conferences at FIFO
Since the beginning of the week, for the fourth consecutive year, the Pacific Television Conference has gathered approximately twenty Pacific television broadcasters with the creation of a network as objective, in which production companies and television channels share their experiences and identify problems, to try to find the answers.
After a discussion on Tuesday dedicated [...]
PROFESSIONAL ENCOUNTER 1 ‘The digital economy in the professional society’
The first professional digital encounters took place on Wednesday 27th January in the FIFO 2010 surroundings; 2 hours of exciting exchanges between qualified and talented speakers and a very au fait professional public. One thing is certain, Polynesia is not lacking in competence regarding digital and everyone present was aware of the challenge at large. [...]
E-health challenge
E-health at the service of healthcare in the French Polynesia Islands. This is the theme tackled yesterday at the third Digital Encounters debate in the presence of Louis Rolland, Director of CHPF, Tuterai Tumahai, Director of Health, Jean Sarda, inspector doctor at the Management of Health (information service), Patricia Lichon, Cabinet Director of the Ministry [...]
“Tahiti makes the world a bigger place”
Professionals, politicians, members of the jury and festival goers, interested from the start, were all gathered at 8am this morning in front of the paepae (bench) at Hiro de Te Fare Tauhiti Nui (Maison de la culture) for the opening ceremony of the seventh FIFO.
The subject of the imminent arrival of digital cable in French [...]
