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, but part of her duties involves creating opportunities for Maori. A brief overview of the audiovisual industry in New Zealand. How is the audiovisual industry in New Zealand today?  Television […]

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 round table organized on Thursday, February 9th under the pae pae a Hiro. Nina Nawalowalo, director of the competing film A boy called piano, and the producer Catherine Marconnet (Archipel […]

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: what is the place of indigenous storytelling in documentary creation? To discuss this question, the FIFO organized a round table with professionals from the audiovisual world. Who may tell Oceanian […]

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 Aboriginal people. Aborigines represent 3% of the population in Australia, but are 23% of the prison population. Included in the official selection of this 20th edition of the FIFO, Incarceration […]

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 actor and an activist. With this film, the director Alec Morgan tells the story of this amazing personality through the quest of his grandson Tiriki. A film where we can […]

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, the elder’s words resonate alongside those of the young. Their message is a strong and universal one.  Meeting with the film team: This intense encounter began with a Marquesan song […]

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 a New Zealand shot put champion: a role model. This is the story of a little girl who thought she was too tall and tried to hide it, at the […]

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 the FIFO. The entire film team is present in Tahiti, to meet the public and the prisoners of Tahiti, to tell their story. A few piano notes, some bubbles, dark […]

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 Olympic swimming medallist and in particular for his now legendary surfing demonstrations. Waterman a competing documentary , tells his story. In Hawaii in 1910, times were difficult for the Hawaiian people. […]

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 and the FIFO. They had a short week to present five-minute documentaries. A great success! The Bootcamp offered at the FIFO was led by Faramarz Keshamarz-Rahber, a film producer and […]

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 Healer Stones of Kapaemahu, it was with a strong voice and tears in her eyes when she explained that she wanted to call on the Polynesian peoples to stand up. […]

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 the long time it takes to build trust, to speak out, and their hopes that with their work, things will evolve and change.  Olivier Pollet, Lucile Guichet-Tirao, Dean Gibson and […]