Tag: Film
Actress Rose Byrne to play Jacinda Ardern in mosque attacks film
RNZ News
Australian actress Rose Byrne is set to play NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a film about the week following the 15 March...
Story of Pacific ‘reconnection’ destined for the big screen
By Michael Andrew and Sri Krishnamurthi
The true story of one of the Pacific’s great waka builders and sailors has been captured in a stirring...
Films about 1965 anti-communist stigma dominate Indonesian festival
The trailer for Eka Saputri's film Melawan Arus. Video: Komunitas Kedung
By Joko Santoso in Purbalingga
A short film by a student whose family were victims...
The Bonfire screening highlights heart-wrenching Arctic story
By Christina Milligan
The multi-award winning feature film The Bonfire has been screened to a small but appreciative audience at Auckland University of Technology following...
‘We never thought we’d make it to Hollywood’, say Tanna stars
The making of the Vanuatu love story film Tanna. A Wall Street Journal video
By Len Garae of the Vanuatu Daily Post
For the first time...
Vanuatu awaits the Oscars with high hopes for love story Tanna
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
The first-ever Oscar-nominated film made in Vanuatu, Tanna, continues to receive enormous praise.
The movie has just been awarded the...
Daily Digest: Tanna filmmakers respond to exploitation claims
Comment from Vanuatu Daily Digest
Knee-jerk resentment of someone else’s success, as elsewhere, is sadly a feature of Vanuatu life, so the kind of comment seen...
Flashback: Honouring independent journalist and film maker Mark Worth
Land of the Morning Star ... the 2004 documentary on West Papua made by Mark Worth.
From Pacific Media Watch / Australians for a Free...
Disney’s Moana: First Pacific movie princess the real deal
The Moana trailer ... "magical but also our reality."
REVIEW: By Vaimoana Tapaleao of The New Zealand Herald
You know the film is something special when...
From Tanna to Hollywood: Film success for Vanuatu love story
The cast of Vanuatu film, Tanna, travelled to Hollywood this month to attend the movies official release in Los Angeles as well as New...
Festival success for young Pasifika filmmakers
Forgotten Dawn Children's official trailer.
By TJ Aumua in Auckland
Filmmakers Joshua Iosefo and Corey Larry Sio found out this month that their short film Forgotten...
Pacific choir records for big budget Disney film Moana
The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Pasifika Voices group have secured a contract to feature on the soundtrack of the much anticipated Hollywood...
Vanuatu’s Romeo and Juliet epic Tanna nominated for Oscars
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Tanna, the movie shot on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, has been picked by Screen Australia as its official entry for...
Waititi ensures strong indigenous presence for his new film
Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi has worked with Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were hired to work on...
Pray For West Papua – the first doco on Octo Mote’s...
West Papuans in Port Moresby calling to Christians across the world to pray for peace for West Papua earlier this year. Video: EM TV
Pray...
Amnesty International criticises denial of NZ visa to Iran filmmaker
The Dokhtar Forooshi song Sonita - "Brides for Sale".
Stop press: A visa has been subsequently granted to the Iranian filmmker
Amnesty International has criticised the...
Former PNG politician seeks injunction against Australian doco The Opposition
Former PNG politician Dame Carol Kidu, who features in Media Stockade's feature documentary The Opposition, is seeking an injunction to stop the filmmakers from...
High risks for Fiji divers in Pacific documentary ‘disturbing’
Trailer for Le Salaire des Profondeur, a deeply disturbing New Caledonian film about the fate of Fijian fishermen diving for sea cucumbers.
By Christina Milligan...
New documentary gives fresh side to Tame Iti story
From the Pacific Media Centre
By Alistar Kata
Most audiences are used to seeing Wairere Tame Iti as the Māori activist, who most notably shot the...