Tag: Filmmaking
Echoes of a Lost Gaza – Al Jazeera documentary on a...
Pacific Media Watch
Mariam Shahin has been making films about Gaza for more than 30 years.
She has also made many documentaries and short films for...
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...
John Minto: Kudos to Jane Campion for saying no to apartheid...
By John Minto
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) congratulates New Zealand film director Jane Campion over her request for her 1989 debut film Sweetie to...
Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw...
REVIEW: By David Robie
Seven weeks ago the Philippines truth-telling martial law film Katips was basking in the limelight in the country’s national FAMAS academy...
Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’
COMMENTARY: By Paul Wolffram
It was at the end of a long day of walking back and forth over the dusty roads of Goroka town...
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...
They are (using) us: ‘How is it okay for others to...
COMMENT: By Saziah Bashir
It was announced yesterday that Australian actress Rose Byrne will star as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in an upcoming...
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...
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...
A Thousand Cuts wins best global feature at NZ’s Doc Edge...
By Rappler
A Thousand Cuts, Ramona Diaz’s documentary on democracy and press freedom in the Philippines, has won the top prize at the 2020 Doc...
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...
Moore’s environmental documentary storm – the truth behind the claims
ANALYSIS: By Ian Lowe of Griffith University
Documentary maker Michael Moore’s latest offering, Planet of the Humans, rightly argues that infinite growth on a...
‘Outsider’ voice films open new storytelling spaces, says academic
By Nicola Igusa
The value of different perspectives in film making is valued now more than ever, says Auckland University of Technology screen production Associate...
Iran’s great global adventurers – around the lost world in 10...
David Robie, concluding his three-part series about Iran, profiles an extraordinary pair of Tehran brothers who have been pioneering global research adventurers.
They have been...
How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace
The trailer for Will Watson's documentary on Bougainville peacemaking, Soldiers Without Guns.
FILM REVIEW: By David Robie
While a gripping film about the apocalyptic Bougainville war,...
New book boosts diversity, cultural consciousness in NZ film making
By Nicola Igusa
For any film maker, their aim is to create engaging work that connects with its audience. For film makers in New Zealand...
Utu actor Zac Wallace – ‘born a leader and a fighter...
Trailer for the 2013 redux version of the 1983 film Utu produced for the Cannes Film Festival. Video: Utu
OBITUARY: By Matthew Theunissen of RNZ...
Nuku’alofa Film Festival launches with documentary dedicated to leiti struggle
By Blessen Tom in Nuku'alofa
Leitis in Waiting, a feature documentary, launched the fourth Nuku'alofa International Film Festival 2018 at the Digicel Square in Nuku'alofa,...
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...
Controversial ‘Confucius’ doco gets mixed response at NZ universities
In The Name Of Confucius trailer for the 52-minute documentary.
A Chinese government-sponsored cultural and education programme offers Mandarin lessons around the world. But a...
The Opposition: Paga Hill’s villagers fight for justice in PNG
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
In Papua New Guinea, community leader Joe Moses struggles to save the 3000 inhabitants of Port Moresby's Paga Hill settlement before...
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...