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The Art of Pitching

The stage fright was visible on the faces of the ten directors, scriptwriters and producers who had come to defend their ‘baby’ this Thursday afternoon at FIFO, during the international pitch session. ‘A Pitch’?  To shed light upon it: a pitch is the oral presentation of a film project or scenario sometimes with a preview [...]

Pre-selection Committee 2012

From July to November 2011, a pre-selection committee viewed 130 documentary films and pre-selected 17 films for the final competition; 19 other films will also be screened and will compete for the public’s prize only.
The pre-selection committee comprised :

Michèle de Chazeaux: Producer and programme host
Marie-Noëlle Fremy: Historian
Jean Philippe Joacquim: Anthropologist and director
Hina Sylvain: Polynésie 1ère [...]

Presentation of the Pitching event

The second international pitching event for oceanian films during next years FIFO, will take place from the 24th to the 30th january 2011. This market place, initiated at the FIFO 2010, was created for you to present your oceanian projects and find interested  film professionals from all over the world for potential co-productions.
All project-proposers (authors, [...]

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 [...]

DEBAT 1 – E-COMMERCE: equipped to face the potential by-products from digital exposure

How do we protect ourselves and remain in control of our reputation and identity on the web? This question was asked yesterday during the first Digital Encounters debate, which was held in the Maison de la Culture marquee, from 4pm to 6pm. Faced with the development of e-commerce, the setting up of video surveillance in [...]

AFIFO/OFC PRESS CONFERENCE REPORT 20th JANUARY 2010.

This morning the press conference presenting the 4th Pacific Television Conference gathered together Wallès Kotra, Chairman of the Pacific International Documentary Film Festival Association, Heremoana Maamaatuaiahutapu, Vice Chairman of AFIFO, Pierre Ollivier, Managing Director of FIFO, as well as Reynald Temarii, Chairman of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and Yves Haupert, Chief Executive Officer of [...]

Making films!

For three years, the FIFO video workshop has allowed budding directors to take their first steps with the latest generation Mac and the most recent version of iMovie software, provided by Ivea.
This morning we met with the participants to find out their impressions.
Jeff, 57 years old
I took part in the workshop last year but there [...]

Presentation of regional audiovisual projects

Participants :

BARRY Klinit – Yumi Piksa – Papua New Guinea
BROADBRIDGE Richard – MaiTV – Fiji
CLARK Kenneth – Fiji TV/EMTV – Fiji
CORDEIRO Dalia – Néo productions – New Caledonia
GREEN Murray – ABC Australia – Australia
HANE NOU Arthur – Yumi Piksa – Papua New Guinea
HEMETSBERGER Mark – ABC Australia  Australia
KOTRA Wallès – AFIFO – France
LEE Erwin [...]

Klinit Barry at the FIFO 2010 – video

We met Klinit Barry, director of the film MAMA BILONG DOWN UNDER

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NEW in 2010 : International pitchinig event for oceanian films

For its 7th edition, the FIFO and the ATPA (local association of audiovisual professionals) are co-organising a pitching session. Its organizers are inviting all professionals of the documentary film world to meet and exchange on oceanian projects.
All project-proposers (authors, directors, producers) will be granted three to five minutes to present their film idea infront of [...]