Laura Theron

FIFO 2025. Jalena Keane-Lee is a director, producer, and cinematographer. This year, she is presenting an 83-minute documentary Stan...

FIFO 2025. Lisa-Jane Taouma is a Samoan New Zealand writer, filmmaker, and television producer. This year, she is presenting Myths a...

FIFO 2025. Nunë Luepak and Ben Salama are respectively a jury member and president of the FIFO. The former is Kanak, the latter Fran...

Paul Wolffram is a director and producer. The New Zealander has been fascinated by other cultures since his childhood, particularly...

Kathryn Graham is head of the Māori development department at the New Zealand Film Commission, which is funded by the government. He...

What is the place of women in documentary creation today? What perspective does a woman bring when she directs? This was the subject...

This question has been asked at every edition of the FIFO over the past twenty years.  Telling the others story and telling one...

This is the kind of film that takes you by storm. It exposes without compromise the implacable intervention methods of the Australia...

An official selection of this 20th  FIFO, Ablaze is the intimate portrait of an Aboriginal man. Bill Onus was a cultural leader...

Motu Haka is a documentary about the struggle to defend the Marquesan’s cultural heritage. In this film, selected for the 20th editi...

Directed by Briar March More than gold looks back at the extraordinary journey of Dame Valerie Adams and her life as a Tongan-born w...

Fa’amoana John Luafutu and his son Matthias Luafutu are the protagonists in this documentary, A boy called Piano, directed by...

There are few who have never heard the name Duke: Paoa Kahanamoku, nicknamed Duke, was a living legend in the 1910s for being a five...

Twenty young people, various Polynesians and Australian students studying at the Griffith Film School, participated in the Bootcamp...

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu was the guest of an Inside the doc event this Wednesday at this year’s FIFO. Co-director and narrator of the...

Four filmmakers were guests at a round table discussion at the FIFO on the role of documentary films in raising awareness. Each of t...

Kahu Kaiha directed a short film, in which he also acts, presented at the FIFO, Find where I belong tells the story of two homeless...