Tag Archive for ‘Tahiti’
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 [...]
TAHITI ORA EN TOUTE INTIMITE
Pf – 2010 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Sébastien Joly
Production : Pollywood Films
Version française
Tumata Robinson is well-known in French Polynesia. After leaving the Grands Ballets de Tahiti in 2008, she created her new dance group, Tahiti Ora. Our inquisitive camera has immersed itself in the world of Ori Tahiti since the creation of the troup. We have been privileged [...]
VAHINE, DES BISOUX PAS DES COUPS
Pf – 2009 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Laurence Generet
Production : Treize au Sud
Version française
Polynesia: sixty-five rapes a month, one in four women a victim of wife-beating…a proportion which is almost three times higher than in France. The local Tahitian press often reports the recurring cases of violence towards women, shocking minds with the savagery of the acts committed [...]
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 [...]
MAKATEA L’OUBLI
Pf – 2010 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Jacques Navarro-Rovira
Production : Bonne Compagnie
Version française sous-titrée en anglais
On the island of Makatea, an atoll 100 metres above sea-level in the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia, there were 3,000 inhabitants no more than 40 years ago. Today there are 39 who share this unique and spectacular area, but also industrial ruins [...]
CONTACT
Australie – 2009 – 78 mn
Réalisateur : Bentley Dean & Martin Butler
Production : Contact Film
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
In 1964 Yuwali was 17 years old and her mob, 20 women and children, were the last aboriginal people living traditionally, without any knowledge of modern Australia. Patrol officers were sent to evacuate their desert home, ahead of rocket tests. [...]
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 [...]
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