Festival on film
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Pacific Arts
Memories of this year’s Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts can now be enjoyed on video, thanks to a Townsville media firm.
JR FILM archive of the Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts has been developed by a video
production company in Townsville,
Queensland.
Coral Sea Imagery filmed 25 hours of broadcast quality material at the festival using the latest LOK 90 Bosch camera and Betacam recorder.
The archive will include programs on the Tahitian fire-walk, Umu-Ti, performed for the first time outside
French Polynesia; traditional naviga
tion and the voyages of the Hokulea;
and complete performances by delega
tions from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Eas ter Island, Federates States of Mic ronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Marianas, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, French Polynesia, Tuvalu, Torres Strait Is lands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna and Western Samoa.
The programs being developed for each of these nations will include in terviews at the craft village and the cultural forum. The soundtrack will be provided by David Fanshawe, offi cial sound recordist at the Festival.
The partners in Coral Sea Imagery are David Hannan and George Evatt, both graduates of the Swinbune Film School in Melbourne, and Douglas Cullen, a social scientist from Oxford
Polytechnic in England.
Coral Sea Imagery has invested $20,000 in production costs and is looking for corporate sponsors to cov er post-production and distribution costs so archive-quality documentaries can be presented to schools and museums throughout the Pacific. The company also plans to continue film ing festivals and cultural events in the Pacific, and is interested to work with governments on educational films promoting the arts.
The archive material and individual programs are available for purchase; further information may be obtained from Douglas Cullen, Coral Sea Imag ery, PO Box 2186, Townsville Austra lia 4810. □
Cultures clash as PNG Highlanders watch a guest tuck into Festival fare: one of the many insights captured by Coral Sea Imagery.