Developing Maori talent, one of the goals of New Zealand’s audiovisual industry
Kathryn Graham is head of the Māori development department at the New Zealand Film Commission, which is funded by the government. He...
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Women in Documentary
What is the place of women in documentary creation today? What perspective does a woman bring when she directs? This was the subject...
When indigenous people reacquire their story
This question has been asked at every edition of the FIFO over the past twenty years. Telling the others story and telling one...
Inside the doc : Incarceration Nation, the need to reveal the truth
This is the kind of film that takes you by storm. It exposes without compromise the implacable intervention methods of the Australia...
Inside the doc: ABLAZE, the legacy of an aboriginal filmmaker
An official selection of this 20th FIFO, Ablaze is the intimate portrait of an Aboriginal man. Bill Onus was a cultural leader...
Inside the doc : Motu Haka, a film with a universal message
Motu Haka is a documentary about the struggle to defend the Marquesan’s cultural heritage. In this film, selected for the 20th editi...
Dame Valérie Adams : An icon of modern times
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...
A boy called Piano: “Let the truth set us free”
Fa’amoana John Luafutu and his son Matthias Luafutu are the protagonists in this documentary, A boy called Piano, directed by...
Duke, the waterman
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...
“It was very exciting and exhilarating.”
Twenty young people, various Polynesians and Australian students studying at the Griffith Film School, participated in the Bootcamp...
“Let foreigners learn from us and not the other way around”
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...
Documentaries to increase awareness
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 : “Expressing and playing minority characters”
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...
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