Tag Archive for ‘documentary’
5th Oceania Television Conference Report
For the 5th consecutive year the Pacific International Documentary Film Festival hosted the Pacific Television Conference, a gathering organised with the support of the Oceania Football Confederation.
This edition was of particular importance, first of all because of the high level of participation registered this year: 80 % of the region’s forces were present at this [...]
KIRI WAI INNER SKIN
NZ – 2010 – 64 mn
Réalisateur : Bruce Giglio
Production : Sirocco Productions
Version anglaise
Kiri Wai, Inner Skin is the story of a young European/American who undertakes a return journey to the South Pacific to complete an identity quest that began in his adolescence when India Taylor (Maori Tattoo artist, sculptor, & makeup artist cf. Once were warriors) began a [...]
PAPA MAU : THE WAYFINDER
USA – 2010 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Anthony Naalehu
Production : Paliku Documentary Films
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
This documentary takes a retrospective look at the revival of non-instrument navigation in Hawaiʻi, rooted in the knowledge of one man: Mau Piailug, a native from the tiny Micronesian atoll of Satawal. Relying on his knowledge of celestial bodies, oceanic currents, and [...]
TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS
NZ – 2009 – 83 mn
Réalisateur : Juliette Veber
Production : Vicky Pope et Juliette Veber
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
Trouble Is My Business is an observational documentary about an assistant principal who battles to keep his students in school and out of trouble. The film follows the stories of three Pacific Island and Maori students from a high [...]
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 [...]
Entries for the 8th Pacific International Documentary Film Festival (FIFO 2011) are open
The eightth Pacific International Documentary Film Festival of Tahiti (FIFO Tahiti) will take place at the ‘Maison de la Culture’ (Te Fare Tauhiti Nui) in Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia from 24 to 30 january 2011.
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This event is open to all filmmakers who have produced a documentary on the Pacific within the last [...]
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 [...]
FIFO premiere!
Yesterday evening the seventh edition of FIFO created something novel by opening the Maison de la Culture’s grand théâtre doors for ‘Fiction Night.’ A taste of what the festival has in store with a short film fiction section, this projection put eight productions under the spotlight (7 short films from Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and [...]
Tell me a story
There was a studious atmosphere this morning for the twenty (+) participants at the script writing workshop led by Franck Philippon. This session which focussed in particular on ‘short films,’ began by watching a short film and a dissection of its script writing codes followed. Fiction’s ammunition, its abilities to serve documentary by choosing, for [...]
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