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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 [...]

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 [...]

SOUS LE VENT DE L’USINE

NC – 2009 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Anne Pitoiset et Laurent Cibien
Production : aaa Productions
Version française sous-titrée en anglais
In the south of New Caledonia, a multinational company completes the construction of a huge mining and chemical complex intended to produce nickel. A few kilometres away, Kanaks from Yaté are directly involved: some work there; others, in vain, are [...]

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 [...]

Introduction to the Pacific Games 2011 : a real challenge

Participants :

BASTIEN THIRY Pascale – NC2011 – New Caledonia
BROADBRIDGE Richard – MaiTV – Fiji
CLARK Kenneth – Fiji TV/EMTV – Fiji
DE SAINT SERNIN Luc – RFO – France
DURAND GAILLARD Patrick – RFO NC – New Caledonia
GREEN Murray – ABC Australia – Australia
HOARAU Gérard – RFO – France
KOTRA Wallès – AFIFO
MARANGO Tom Lorry – SRTV [...]

The jury

Chairperson – Elie Chouraqui, France
Director of the film “Paroles et Musique”, producer of the musical “The 10 Commandments”, a scriptwriter and a writer, Elie Chouraqui, whose work is eclectic and diverse, will be the President of the 9th FIFO Jury.
Marie-Claude Tjibaou, New Caledonia
President of the Tjibaou Cultural Centre and a Member of the Economic and [...]

PRISONNIER DU SOLEIL

France et Nouvelle Calédonie – 2009 – 52 mn
Scénario et Réalisation : Gilles Dagneau
Production : aaa Production & RFO
Version française
At the beginning of the 1930’s the Caledonian writer Jean Mariotti, aged 20 years old, left the colony and moved to Paris where he published his first books. New Caledonia is the sole subject and the [...]

L’ARCHIPEL DES FORCATS

Nouvelle Calédonie – 2009 – 90 mn
Réalisateur : Jacques-Olivier Trompas
Production : Néo Productions
Version française sous-titrée en anglais
Less famous than its Guyanese counterpart, the New Caledonian penal colony represents another story of the French ultramarine prison. The taking over of this French South Pacific land in 1853 marked the beginning of this colonization through prison. 22,000 [...]