Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consis ...
only began producing its own
feature film
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...
s in 2004, and has produced just one to date.
Vilsoni Hereniko's ''
The Land Has Eyes
''The Land Has Eyes'' ( Rotuman: ''Pear ta ma ʻon maf'') is a 2004 Rotuman film written and directed by Vilsoni Hereniko. It is the first ever (and so far only) feature film from Rotuma.
Plot
The main character, Viki ( Sapeta Taito), is a you ...
'' (2004) is set in
Rotuma and stars
indigenous Rotuman actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
Sapeta Taito in her début role, alongside
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ...
actress
Rena Owen Renas may refer to:
Places
* Rena, Badajoz, a municipality in Extremadura, Spain
*Rena, Norway, a village in Innlandet county, Norway
* Rena, Washington, a community in Clallam County, Washington, United States
People
* Rena (given name), list of ...
.
2004 was also the year in which the film ''Reel Paradise'' (
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...
) was produced. The film depicts the real-life story of American independent filmmaker
John Pierson, who, in 2002, took his wife and two children to the island of Taveuni in Fiji to live for a year, and used a vacant cinema to show films free of charge.
''
Boot Camp'' (2007), starring
Mila Kunis and
Peter Stormare, is partly set in Fiji, but is not a Fiji-made film.
Although Fiji has only ever produced one film, the Fiji Audio Visual Commission aims to attract foreign film-makers and incite them to use the country as a setting. The Commission stated in July 2008 that it hoped Fiji would become known as "Bulawood", the
Hollywood of the South Seas.
Fiji has a large
ethnic Indian minority, and
Bollywood
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films are popular both among
Indo-Fijians
Indo-Fijians or Indian-Fijians (also known as Fiji Indians) are Fijian citizens of Indian descent, and include people who trace their ancestry to various regions of the Indian subcontinent.Girmit by Suresh Prasad Although Indo-Fijians constit ...
and
indigenous Fijians, with some being
dubbed in
Fijian.
[ LAL, Brij, ''Islands of Turmoil'', , p.xi]
See also
*
Cinema of the world
This is a list of cinema of the world by continent and country.
By continent
* Cinema of Africa
*Cinema of Asia
**South Asian cinema
** Southeast Asian cinema
* Cinema of North America
* Cinema of Latin America
*Cinema of Europe
* Cinema of Ocean ...
*
World cinema
*
List of Oceania films
References
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