Tag: Documentary
New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua
The Paradise Bombed documentary about West Papua by Kristo Langker.
Asia Pacific Report
A new documentary and human rights report have documented savage attacks in 2021...
A NZ documentary revival spotlights crime and injustice
MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
A recent revival of local prime-time TV documentaries has highlighted some thorny social issues and raised awkward questions...
Dame Valerie Adams sets record straight in a new documentary
REVIEW: By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
One of New Zealand's most celebrated athletes is opening up her on life journey on the big screen.
Double...
Gavin Ellis: Latter-day anarchists throw digital bombs at NZ journalists
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis, publisher of Knightly Views
Every journalist that "outs" a conspiracy theorist or extremist paints a target on their own back.
The anti-truth...
Martyn Bradbury: Why these feral anti-vax conspiracy theorists seeking public office...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
If there was one good outcome of the very one sided Fire & Fury, it’s that...
ABC blasts Honiara for ‘factual errors’ in attack over Pacific Capture...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The ABC has soundly condemned the Solomon Islands Office of the Prime Minister for a series of "factual errors" in a...
Siouxsie Wiles mini-doco funding criticism does vanishing act online
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Why did criticism of a modest sum spent on a single mini-documentary made two years ago suddenly spring up...
Journalist Max Stahl ‘changed the fate of East Timor’, says Xanana
By Antonio Sampaio in Dili
Former Timor-Leste President Xanana Gusmão today lamented the death of journalist and filmmaker Max Stahl, recalling that his work had...
Timor-Leste’s ‘true hero’ cameraman Max Stahl who exposed Indonesian atrocities dies
In this video -- one of several made while he was guest speaker at the Pacific Journalism Review's 20th anniversary conference in Auckland in...
Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO
Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa are...
Gallery: PMC celebrates Pacific ‘reset’ vision and farewells founding director
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre students, staff and journalists gathered at Auckland University of Technology this week and debated reset strategies for the...
Pacific journalism, media and diversity researchers tackle challenges ahead
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific journalism and media researchers have gathered "live" in Auckland and "virtually" from Australia, Indonesia, and the region to showcase their...
How Hong Kong authorities are gradually taking over public broadcaster RTHK
By Rachel Wong in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s government-funded broadcaster, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), is under fire again.
Last week, police arrested freelance TV producer...
Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power
A clip from This Is Not A Movie, a 2020 documentary by about Robert Fisk. Video: Doc Edge Festival
Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, who for...
Loimata – The Sweetest Tears is a spectacularly exquisite documentary
Pacific Media Watch
Host Zoe Larsen Cumming had much to discuss on a new documentary, the exquisitely made Loimata – The Sweetest Tears, which was...
Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka...
An interview with filmmaker Anna Marbrook on the making of Loimata. Video: Tagata Pasifika/Sunpix
DOCUMENTARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, who talks to Jim Marbrook about the...
Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts
Award-winning Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz takes viewers to the Philippines where the free press has been under siege since President Rodrigo #Duterte took office...
Inside Indonesia’s Secret War for West Papua – Foreign Correspondent
The 30-minute Foreign Correspondent report by ABC.
By ABC News Indepth
Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence fighters and...
PMC projects creative ‘grab bag’ unveiled at midwinter showcase
By Michael Andrew
A creative “grab bag” of projects has been unveiled by the Pacific Media Centre in a showcase of collaboration across academic and...
West Papua film exposes plight of ‘ignored’ local journalists
By RNZ Pacific
A short documentary which highlights the risks of being a journalist in Indonesian-ruled Papua region (West Papua) has won an international film...
Climate change documentary about Kiribati wins top FIFO prize
Anote's Ark trailer
By RNZ Pacific
A Canadian film about climate change in Kiribati and the Pacific has won the top prize at the 16th Pacific...
Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere
The trailer for Banabans of Rabi on the Pacific Media Centre YouTube page.
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
Banabans of Rabi – A story of Survival,...