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The Oceanian Television Dialogue has become an essential meeting point for audiovisual professionals of the region. By hosting this conference, FIFO offers more than thirty industry professionals the opportunity to debate and prepare joint ventures, developing the audiovisual sector in the Pacific and helping to create a local market.
Once again, more than thirty participants representing countries from all over the Pacific, Europe and the United States will be gathering during FIFO 2012 to discuss following subjects:

1. Pacific Games NC 2011 report – Tuesday 7th February

With Wallés Kotra as chairman and Rémy Pflimlin (chief executive of the France Télévisions group), this round table concerns the media coverage of the NC 2011. Its president Pascale Bastien-Thiry and the Réseau Outre-Mer 1ere teams will be presenting the outcome of this joint television venture.
Future prospects of such a collaboration will be elaborated for upcoming events requiring extensive media coverage. Furthermore, the idea of an overall synergy of Pacific television will be discussed.

2. Presentation of Fiji’s Audiovisual Landscape – Wednesday 8th February

The Fiji Islands embody an economic and demographic energy which has allowed the development of a rich and structured audiovisual landscape: a university training course on image and sound, a regional training centre, a production promotion agency, public and private radio, terrestrial and satellite television channels, Web tv and many more.
Florence Swamy, executive director of the Fiji Film Commission (FAVCL) and Tarun Patel, chief executive officer of FijiTV, will come to comment on the scope of Fijian media.

3. Oceania Pitch International – Thursday 9th February

This gathering is long-awaited by directors and producers as the pitching session will allow them to present their new Oceanian film projects to potential co-producers. Only the ten best projects will be withheld. The pitchers have 5 minutes to convince the professional audience of their film, preferably with the support of a trailer, and get it into an international production pipeline.

4. Perspectives of a Regional Audiovisual Cooperation – Friday 10th February

Numerous are the actions taken by Oceanian television stations and European partners since the outset of the conference, the coverage of the NC2011 Games being the high point of achieved international  cooperation and communal regional strategy.
Perhaps now the moment has come for those operators to be structured in an associative entity: gentle but efficient, it could be on duty between two editions of FIFO and tune in to the needs and problems encountered by its members throughout the year, notably in the domain of the search for funding. A project to keep an eye on…