Kathryn Graham is head of the Māori development department at the New Zealand Film Commission, which is funded by the government. Her role is multi-faceted, …

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

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

This is the kind of film that takes you by storm. It exposes without compromise the implacable intervention methods of the Australian State towards the …

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

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

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

Fa’amoana John Luafutu and his son Matthias Luafutu are the protagonists in this documentary, A boy called Piano, directed by Nina Nawalowalo, in competition at …

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-time …

Twenty young people, various Polynesians and Australian students studying at the Griffith Film School, participated in the Bootcamp proposed jointly by the University of Brisbane …

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 competing film The …

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