Filmakers - New Guinea and Oceania

New Guinea and Oceania

13 film(s) found

	Asmat: Time’s Forgotten People A close up look at the tribe in Papua New Guinea, known as "the men who eat men." more »
	Bali Beyond The Postcard Art and everyday life come together in this intimate story about a Balinese family whose gamelan music and Legong dance tradition span four generations. more »
	Betelnut Bisnis The betelnut has been a socially accepted narcotic in coastal Papua New Guinea since ancestral times but in the Highlands, where a majority of the population lives, it is a recent arrival. The film follows Lukus Kalma as he tries to supplement his income by buying betelnuts from growers and reselling them at home. more »
	Black Harvest The third film in the renowned trilogy on Papua New Guinea completes the story chronicled in First Contact and Joe Leahy's Neighbours. more »
	Breaking Bows and Arrows On the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea thousands of people were killed in a war of secession that grew from a local uprising against an Australian copper company. When the ten =year= old civil war ended in 1998, the islanders had to deal with the challenging emotional terrain of personal reconciliation. more »
	Contact Yuwali, a member of an Aboriginal group from Western Australia, recounts her people's first interaction with white men when, in 1964, the government began using her desert homeland to test rockets. more »
	First Contact Academy Award Nominee, 1984. This is the classic film of cultural confrontation that is as compelling today as when it was first released over ten years ago. more »
	The Gospel According to the Papuans This ironic film show how the natives of Papua New Guinea are confused by the rivalry for conversions among competing churches more »
	Joe Leahy's Neighbours This film is the followup to Academy Award nominee First Contact. more »
	Land of the Morning Star For centuries, the world has jostled for control of the land now known as West Papua, a rugged, isolated region, with its abundant natural resources and strategic position. Colonial ambition, fervent nationalism and cold war politics have played a part in its turbulent history. more »
	Papua New Guinea trilogy Three classic films about cultural confrontation. more »
	Paradise Bent This film explores the culture of Samoan fa'afafines, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a traditional role in Samoan culture. more »
	Pig Tusks and Paper Money The two currencies in Papua New Guinea are the modern cash economy and a traditional economy based around shell money, banana leaves and pig tusks. The problem is that there is no exchange between the two and a bank is badly needed. more »