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Tentative Program PNG Human Rights film festival
Port Moresby Moresby Arts Theatre
*DISCLAIMER* The PNG Human Rights Film Festival committee does not endorse the viewpoints in the films, which are selected to further discourse on critical human rights issues in PNG*
Thursday, 11 October 2018
4.30pm Doors open
5.30pm Koriva (5 mins)*
A young girl from the city tries to participate in traditional village wife against her father’s wishes. Shot in Central Province.
5.45pm Opening ceremony
Welcome remarks Key note speech by Festival Patron, Minister for Justice and Attorney General 6.00pm Power Meri (1 hr 14 mins)
Power Meri follows Papua New Guinea’s first national women’s rugby league team, the PNG Orchids, on their journey to the 2017 World Cup in Australia. These trailblazers must beat not only the sporting competition, but also intense sexism, a lack of funding, and national prejudice to reach their biggest stage yet.
7.30pm Panel discussion on gender equality and women in leadership in PNG
8.30pm Doors Close
Friday, 12 October 2018
Friday school session‐ targeting students and youth
8.00am Doors open
8.30am Faka’anua* (5 mins)
Faka’anaua is surrounded by family as they prepare for a funeral that turns out to be traditional only in appearance. To her dismay, Faka’anaua witnesses light‐fingered relatives try to steal a ring off the finger of the corpse, but when she tries to tell her Grandmother she is silenced and given chores to do. To prevent the loss of the jewellery, Faka’anaua takes matters into her own hands.
Aliko and Ambai (1 hr 42 mins)
Aliko loses her parents in a tribal fight and goes to live with her uncle in Goroka. Her unpleasant auntie and cousin soon force her to do all the work around the house and her only support is her new friend Ambai and a young street‐seller, Ethan. Although Aliko is a promising student, the unsupportive environment at her new home negatively impacts her studies. In danger of failing her 10th grade exams, she is told that she will be forced to return to the village and marry an elderly man from their enemy tribe in a bride‐exchange for peace. Aliko, a girl whose dream is to compete her education and Ambai, who searches to escape her abusive home and reunite with her biological father, eventually overcome the many obstacles in their lives through Ethan’s support and older female mentors.
Equal playing field films on gender‐based violence (2 x 5 mins)
10.30am Panel discussion: Youth rights in PNG
11.00am *30‐minute lunch break*
11.30am One too many students (13 mins 48 sec)
One Too Many Students is a documentary film made by six Divine Word University students in 2017 as part of a group assessment task. The film highlights the overcrowding problem faced by two schools in the Madang province; the Lutheran Day Primary School and Tusbab Secondary School. Students, teachers, parents, principals, educators and academia talk about the impacts of large classes on student learning as a result of the Tuition Fee Free Policy (TFFP). All those involved in making the film are Papua New Guineans.
STEP (1 hr 25 mins)
A story of true life challenge and triumph, a group of young women take the stage with a fierceness – with each move it seems that they are putting everything on the line, because they are. They are teenagers on the verge of womanhood, by turns graceful, goofy, joyous, determined, elegant, insecure, hopeful but always passionate. These are the Lethal Ladies of The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women (BLSYW), and they are not only a competitive step team headed for a multi‐state showdown but are also aiming to break barriers as the first graduates of their school, whose mission is to send every single one of its students to college.
PNG Life Care (5 mins)
Short film on the organization “PNG Life Care” one of the few organizations which provides education and shelter to children at risk in Port Moresby.
The Education of Grayson Toki* (5 mins)
In this coming of age tale, teenager Grayson Toki blames his overbearing mother for his father’s abandonment of the family. When he fails his exams he begins skipping school and spending his days stealing bananas to make intoxicating Jungle Juice. Powerless to stop him but persistent in her love, his mother waits for a light at the end of the tunnel.
1.30pm Panel discussion: Right to Education
2.00pm Friday school session ends & Doors close
*** break ****
*** Festival close from 2pm – 4.30pm ***
4.30pm Doors open
5.00pm Young and Positive films (Full of Life, Igat hailivin I stap, I create my future)
Young & Positive is a series of short films about three young women living with HIV. Collectively and individually they share their experiences of the diagnosis, treatment, fear of death, pregnancy and parenthood, TB, education and making a future, and the possibility of living a normal life. Their inspirational stories weave together the importance of others, family members, children and health care workers who show kindness, love, and support to remain on their HIV treatment.
Full of Life (10 mins)
Maria lives with her sister‐in‐law in a rural part of Eastern Highlands Province. Rejected by her parents, her sister‐in‐law – Eggie – provides Maria a safe and supportive place to live where she is accepted. Maria is also supported and encouraged by Patrick, who runs a local Catholic HIV service. Together, Eggie and Patrick ensure Maria is supported to live with HIV and to remain on treatment. Maria shares her dream of love, marriage and a family of her own. Maria’s message to others is that there is no shame in living with HIV.
I Gat Halivim i stap (11 mins)
Like many young women Esther came to know she had HIV when she was pregnant. She was severely ill when she was diagnosed and through the support of others came to learn she was suffering from TB. Close to death she followed a strict treatment regime for both HIV and TB from which she defaulted. Having a HIV negative baby, Esther has found the most important support from her aunt ‘Big Mama’ and staff at St Therese Clinic in Port Moresby. Esther now takes her medication faithfully and works as a peer educator providing encouragement to others who face similar challenges.
I create my future (12 mins) Living in Morata, Port Moresby, Cathy came to know she was infected with HIV during her pregnancy. Supported by her grandmother, Cathy shares the birth of her HIV‐negative child but how in time she grew tired of taking treatment. Having stopped, Cathy returned to Anglicare Stop AIDS where she was supported and nurtured to recommence treatment. Some time on Cathy remains adherent to her treatment, has started a vocational college course and is determined to create a bright future for herself and her son.
I’m Moshanty. Do you love me?
(1 hour 12 mins)
I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me? is a documentary profile of the late South Pacific music legend and transgender activist Moses Moshanty Tau and members of the LGBTQ community in The Central Province of PNG.
6.30pm:
Panel discussion: Non‐discrimination
7.30pm Doors close
Saturday, 13 October 2018
9.30am Doors open
10.00am Another news story (1 hr 24 mins)
How does the media manufacture the news of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean? Another News Story takes a unique perspective to present the chaotic event by turning the camera to the journalists covering the humanitarian tragedy. As the refugees move from the Greek island of Lesbos to cross Europe, they are faced with all sorts of obstacles and uncertainties. Along the way they are followed by fellow travellers – journalists, producers and cameramen who are pursuing breaking news. The juxtaposition of suffering refugee experience and the meditated news story questions news making ethics and our standpoint as an audience.
Wan Dei (5 mins)
After waking up in the jungle following a raid by soldiers in his village, Nawipa, a young West Papuan boy must now journey the unknowns to find his family. This is a story of two worlds colliding, and the hope for freedom.
11.30am Panel discussion Freedom of media
12.30pm The Red Ball (6 mins) The arrival of a drunk uncle precipitates the loss of a young girl’s family home.
Mobail Goroka (16 mins)
In 2007, the telecommunications company Digicel began operating in Papua New Guinea. Digicel offered an attractive alternative to the limited services of B‐Mobile, the state‐owned mobile phone operator. People in the eastern highlands town of Goroka for the first time had access to affordable mobile communications as well as new means for earning income. The documentary Mobail Goroka tells the story of Luke Natapol and Joseph Kaupa who both earn money by operating street stalls that provide mobile phone services. Highlighting their daily routines, the documentary shows how people respond to the logistical challenges and economic opportunities presented by new communication technologies.
The Opposition (1 hr 15 mins)
The Opposition asks how we can ethically build sustainable business in developing countries. The story is told through Joe Moses, leader of the Paga Hill settlement, who must save his 3,000 people before they are evicted. Battling it out in the courts, Joe may find his community replaced with a five star hotel and marina.
2.00pm Panel discussion: Human rights & development
3.00pm: One too many students (13 mins 48 sec)
One Too Many Students is a documentary film made by six Divine Word University students in 2017 as part of a group assessment task. The film highlights the overcrowding problem faced by two schools in the Madang province; the Lutheran Day Primary School and Tusbab Secondary School. Students, teachers, parents, principals, educators and academia talk about the impacts of large classes on student learning as a result of the Tuition Fee Free Policy (TFFP). All those involved in making the film are Papua New Guineans.
PNG Life Care (5 mins)
Short film on the organization “PNG Life Care” one of the few organizations which provides education and shelter to children at risk in Port Moresby.
Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry (1 hr 31 mins)
Meet Ai Weiwei, one of the world's greatest contemporary artists and the most powerful dissident of the digital age. Having inspired audiences worldwide with his art, he has become a revolutionary figure at home, harnessing the power of the internet to demand democratic reform in his native China. To a whole new generation of liberalised Chinese, this talented agent provocateur is a prophet of change.
5.00pm: Panel discussion: Human rights and filmmaking in PNG
6.00pm: Tokaut taim: Spoken word hour – in partnership with Stella Magazine
7.00pm Doors close
Sunday, 14 October 2018
9.30am Doors open
10.00am The Black Pen (5 mins)
Malaia, a newly qualified counsellor receives a lesson in the realities of her new job when a terrified eleven‐year‐old Anaseini is brought to the refuge by a female police officer who they suspect has been sexually abused by her father. The pressure rises when the novice counsellor discovers that her own daughter has skipped school and is missing. Torn between her work and personal dilemmas, Malaia is forced to make a stand when Anaseini’s father arrives, supported by the local priest, demanding that Anaseini return home with him
Everybody’s business (1 hour)
Accusations and violence associated with sorcery and witchcraft (sanguma) is a relatively new reality emerging in parts of the Papua New Guinea Highlands. This film views the issue through the experiences of some of the women who have been accused, tortured and yet survived. It also shows the efforts of people trying to assist those affected and provides background on a national action plan designed to reduce sorcery accusation and related violence. A solution will depend on a combined effort of many people and organisations ‐ in other words, it is “everybody’s business.
My mother’s blood*
In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, an indigenous mother raises her disabled son alone; endeavouring to root him in his cultural heritage and impart an understanding of his rights to the land. But as women without a husband, she becomes a target for the ravages of superstition. Borne witness to her brutal murder, her son plots his revenge.
11.00am Panel discussion: Sorcery accusation related violence
12.00pm Bougainville: Long han bilong yumi (15 mins)
The film is a short documentary. It asks if Bougainville really needs mining for its development or if there are alternatives. The film highlights the perspectives of landowners, cocoa growers and small business managers.
12.15pm Silas (1 hr 20 mins)
Liberian activist, Silas Siakor is a tireless crusader, fighting to crush corruption and environmental destruction in the country he loves. Through the focus on one country, Silas is a global tale that warns of the power of politics and celebrates the power of individuals to fight back. One man's battle gains momentum and emboldens communities to raise their fists and smartphones, seize control of their lands and protect their environment. It is a new generation of resistance.
1.35pm Paul’s story (5 mins)
This short film profiles the work of landowner Paul Pavol, a Pomio, East New Britain activist whose community was deeply affected by large‐scale logging and agriculture on their customary land. Paul was recognized by the Alexander Soros Foundation in 2016 for his tireless efforts to protect the community’s land.
2.00pm Panel discussion: Business and human rights
3.00pm Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana islands (14 mins)
Short film by Eco Custodian Advocates, an NGO in Milne Bay working with island communities in addressing environment protection and climate change through customary way of life through using the conservation practice of Gwala, the traditional practice of setting aside a reef or forest area to allow the ecosystem to recover.
Anote’s Ark (1 hr 17 mins)
The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati (population: 100,000) is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far‐removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the main existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea‐level rise. While Kiribati’s President Anote Tong races to find a way to protect his nation’s people and maintain their dignity, many Kiribati are already seeking safe harbour overseas.
5.00pm Doors close