Tag: Filmmaking
‘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...
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...