Calling all PACIFIC SUPERHEROES out there documenting our people and region, gotta be into win, good luck!
With the FIFO now entering its sixth year, Papeete has become an unrivalled venue for Pacific pictures, a meeting place for people from Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia and the West where the voices of the Pacific are heard.
The 6th Pacific International Documentary Film Festival will take place in Papeete, Tahiti, from 27 january to 1 february, 2009.
Entries have been open for some weeks now and will close on October 1st, 2008.
If you have produced or directed documentary films in the South Pacific region during these three last years, we would be delighted to consider them for our next festival and encourage you to submit them as soon as possible.
2008 winners were: Horo’a, by Jacques Navarro-Novira (French Polynesia); Sacred Ground by Kim Mavromatis, documenting a fight to save Aboriginal burial grounds (Australia): Ben Lewis’s Blowing Up Paradise about French nuclear testing in the Pacific (Britain); My Brother Vinnie, Steven McGregor’s portrait of actor Aaron Pedersen’s bond with his intellectually disabled brother (Australia); The Latest Australian Trackers by Eric Ellena (France); and Peta Carey’s Lifting of the Makutu, about a family grappling with a rare genetic disorder (New Zealand).
Where: Papeete, Tahiti
When: 27 Jan – 1 Feb 09
Deadline: 1 Oct 08
Contact:
Pierre Ollivier, FIFO Director
organisation@fifotahiti.org
www.fifotahiti.org
