Congratulations, Clarke! You deserve 2 Emmy nominations
Celebrated overseas. Still attacked at home. Ardern’s legacy continues to divide — and resonate.
Documentary
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West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military
A new investigative documentary, Pig Feast, exposes rainforest destruction, oligarch influence and Indigenous resistance in West Papua during its international premiere in New Zealand.
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Melania: 5 stars for catastrophic emptiness
A glossy vanity project meant to flatter Melania instead exposes the hollow, creepy theatre of Trump-era power. A spectacular 5-star disaster.
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‘Pacific Media Watch – the Genesis’, a new freedom, ethics and plurality doco
Sri Krishnamurthi: “The catalyst for Pacific Media Watch was the jailing of the “Tongan Three” – founding editor of Taimi ‘o Tonga Kalafi Moala, his deputy Filokalafi Akau’ola, and pro-democracy MP ‘Akilisi Pohiva, now Prime Minister of Tonga – for contempt of Parliament in 1996.”
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Paga Hill iconic human rights documentary banned from PNG festival
Joe Moses: “It is shameful that [the PNG] government continues to limit free speech and put such pressure on our country’s only annual arts and human rights event. How does this make us look to the world leaders who will be coming here for the APEC meeting in November?”
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Bearing Witness climate storytellers arrive for Fiji challenge
Hele Ikimotu and Blessen Tom bear a close connection to the impact climate change is wreaking on the Pacific region and wider world for their new Bearing Witness challenge. Ikimotu is from Kiribati and his passion for the Bearing Witness project is drawn from his close connection to the Pacific.
