Tag: Filmmaking

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...

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...

Pacific Media Watch Host Zoe Larsen Cumming had much to discuss on a new documentary, the exquisitely made Loimata – The Sweetest Tears, which was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tanna may have missed out on an Oscar - but in many ways the humble South Pacific cast are the stars of the show. The...

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...

Land of the Morning Star ... the 2004 documentary on West Papua made by Mark Worth. From Pacific Media Watch / Australians for a Free...

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...

By Gwyn McClelland in Melbourne Today, Martin Scorsese’s Silence will have its premiere at the Vatican, where it will be screened to hundreds of Roman...