Tag Archive for ‘ICA’
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 [...]
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 [...]
AU DELA D’UN NAUFRAGE
Vanuatu – 2008 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Yves Bourgeois
Production : Doscide & F3 Thalassa & Canal Overseas
Version française
In this search to resolve the mystery surrounding the final destiny of the famous and mythical ‘Lapérouse’ who disappeared in 1788, after three years of navigating around the world, in September 2008 a film crew accompanied researchers who go to pick [...]
IAORANA QUEBEC
Pf & Canada – 2010 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Benjamin Picard
Production : Faimanu Productions
Version française
An unlikely meeting between people so distant but perhaps not so culturally different, indications about its past history or creative inspiration for its future evolution: that is what a delegation from the Centre des Métiers d’Art de Polynésie Française (Centre for Art Professions in [...]
L’HISTOIRE D’UN PARFUM
NC – 2010 – 27 mn
Réalisateur : Caroline Antic-Martin
Production : Séquence Productions & FTNC
Version française
‘The Story of a Perfume’ is above all the story of a meeting between Sandrine Videault, a Caledonian ‘nose’ trained by the greatest master perfumer and Malia, a Wallisian mother living in New Caledonia. By sharing the olfactory rituals of her community with “the [...]
ILE DE PÂQUES, RETOUR VERS LE PASSE
Rapa Nui – 2010 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Philippe Axell
Production : Axell Communication
Version française
Fascinating with its stone statues, today Easter Island is presented as the archetype of an ecological catastrophe on a large scale. For ten years multidisciplinary scientific teams have been searching, carrying out dating and re-examining historical documents in order to better understand its past. The [...]
WALPOLE, L’ILE MYSTERIEUSE
NC – 2010 – 60 mn
Réalisateur : Eric Beauducel
Production : Cauri Films & Canal Overseas Productions
Version française
In 1927, on a remote French islet in the middle of the South Pacific, a young Kanak worker who has come to extract the guano by chance discovers human remains in a cave. It is the prelude to a whole series of [...]
LES AS DE COEUR
Pf – 2010 – 53 mn
Réalisateur : Jacques Navarro-Rovira
Production : Bleu Lagon & Grand Angle
Version française
Francis Gazeau, a recent heart transplant patient, lives in Rangiroa. He decides to spend a year alone on the uninhabited atoll Tahanea, a strong act to thank his donor and through him all donors and their families; a militant act to promote organ [...]
PEINTURE PINTUPI D’AUSTRALIE
Australie – 2009 – 26 mn
Réalisateur : François Lévy-Kuentz
Production : Programm 33
Version française
‘Papunya, a rocky hole west of Kintore,’ is an acrylic canvas painted in 2002 by the Aboriginal Pintupi artist, Ningura Napurrula. She describes mythical places linked to a time of dreams, when the ancestors of each clan created the landscape. Ningura Napurrula’s painting describes a very [...]
YIDAKI
Australie – 2000 – 30mn
Réalisateur : Michael Butler
Production : Sacred Oz Productions
Version anglaise
Yidaki or Didgeridoo is one of the oldest wind instruments in the world. Djalu Gurruwiwi is a full blood Aboriginal Elder from Gove in the North East Arnhem Land and is the spiritual guardian of this ancient musical instrument. It is Djalu’s responsibility as the custodian [...]
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