Tag: Filmmaking
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...
‘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...
Tanna stars hit Oscars in penis sheaths and win many global...
Tanna may have missed out on an Oscar - but in many ways the humble South Pacific cast are the stars of the show.
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...
Scorsese’s Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb
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...
Price of Peace filmmakers honoured with award
The film made its debut at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2015. Video: JourneymanVOD
By TJ Aumua in Auckland
Filmmakers of the New Zealand...
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...