FIFO 2010
The FIFO 2010 winners, a promising batch!
Year after year, the festival has been able to grow in quantity and quality and today it proudly shows a great maturity welcomed as it should be by all the participants.
To start with, the two largest Oceania nations Australia and New Zealand, not to mention Hawaii (hence the USA) which quicly became indispensable credibility support for such event.
Surprisingly, the pre-selection has become a real headache for the organizers who have seen the number of movies proposed triple in five years. This year, Pierre Ollivier and his team have previewed over 150 films to select about thirty of them, selected in two categories: "in" and "out of" competition.
17 films were retained in the official selection, and in the final selection, it is "There Once Was An Island", By New Zealander Briar March, who received the unanimous vote of a jury presided this year by Florence Aubenas, a famous French reporter.
Interview of Florence Aubenas,
President of the FIFO 2010 Jury
The 2010 FIFO Grand Prize is a documentary on the population of Takuu, an island victim of the coming rise in sea water, whose people must as fast as possible solve a dilemma, leave or stay on their ancestors' land. This very moving and sincere production is the 4th New Zealander success in FIFO's 7 years.
Have also recieved awards, "The Pop Twins Untouchable Girls", A New Zealand production of Leane Pooley who tells the story of two lesbian twins who play country music, dance and sing while yodelling.
Two other prizes were awarded to "Nono Hewa" by Keala Kelly, a look at the still active struggle of the native population of Hawaii against the American invader, and also to the Australian film "Bastard", of Amiel Courtin-Wilson, one of the competition big favorite, which features an amazing Aborigene, who is a carefree actor and sometimes a real crook.
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