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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 [...]

The objectives

The objectives
The festival pursues a number of goals:

Highlight the quality of national and international productions so as to promote the best ones and make it easier to market them internationally
Bring together all film and television professionals of the region and [...]

Script writing course

Open to all (registration necessary at the FIFO office: 70 70 16 – limited availability)
(Course: Tuesday and Wednesday 9am/12pm –Individual discussion on Saturday)
This year, the script writing course is focussed on short films, through a two-sided approach. This training both theoretical and practical will be carried out by Franck Philippon, a scriptwriter from [...]

Competition

Welcome
FIFO Tahiti aims to become the most important documentary film event in the Pacific region. Our priority is to depict the lives we live in this part of the world. This vision of the Pacific is the one that audio-visual professionals are invited to come and share.
You will find below the documentation needed to enter [...]

GINA’S WEDDING

Papouasie Nouvelle Guinée – 2008 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Martin Maden
Production : La Huit
Version papoue sous-titrée en français
Gina’s Wedding narrates, in the form of a village chronicle from the Papua Highlands, a wedding ceremony under remarkable circumstances. At the heart of this story there is Gina, a young German girl and Napamogona, her village by [...]

LOST IN WONDERLAND

Nouvelle Zélande – 2009 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Zoe Mcintosh
Production : Lone Pine Film & TV Productions Ltd
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
The Times of London cited barrister Rob Moodie for the most outrageous behavior by a lawyer in 2006 after he represented himself in the New Zealand High Court dressed as Alice in [...]

THE TOPP TWINS – UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS

Nouvelle Zélande – 2009 – 84 mn
Réalisateur : Leanne Pooley
Production : Diva Films
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
This film offers a revealing look into the lives of the World’s only comedic, country singing, dancing and yodeling lesbian twin sisters. As well as rarely seen archive footage and home movies, the film features a series of special [...]

RAIN OF THE CHILDREN

Nouvelle Zélande – 2007 – 101 mn
Réalisateur : Vincent Ward
Production : Tainui Stephens
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
Vincent Ward weaves drama with documentary to unravel the extraordinary story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman who welcomed the young filmmaker into her home in 1978. Ward made the observation film In Spring One Plants Alone about Puhi’s day [...]

SALT

Australie – 2009 – 28 mn
Réalisateur : Michael Angus & Murray Fredericks
Production : Jerrycan Films Pty Ltd
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
Salt is a short documentary on photographer, Murray Frederick’s extreme solo journeys to capture the heart of the world’s most featureless landscape on Lake Eyre, South Australia. Told with subtlety, care and gentle dry humour, [...]