One of the most important reasons that we returned to Fiji last summer was to document the run up to last year’s election, which was the first election in Fiji since the 2006 coup. Unfortunately, due to our work schedules, we knew that we wouldn’t actually be able to film the election itself. However, we …
While we were in Suva last summer, we filmed several more very interesting interviews, which I haven’t yet told you about. Back when I was at the University of the South Pacific, I met Sandra Tarte, the Director of the Politics and International Affairs program. While not interested in being interviewed herself, Professor Tarte did …
When I took a break from blogging several months ago, I left the story of our third production trip to Fiji half-finished. I will rectify this in the next several blogs over the coming weeks. When we left off, we had just interviewed several academics at the University of the South Pacific about Fijian history, …
Here is the latest posting in the continuing story of our shoot in Fiji: Upon arriving in the capital city of Suva, we headed to the University of the South Pacific, the largest academic institution in the region, to interview a couple of fascinating academics. First up was Robert Nicole. Dr. Nicole is Senior Lecturer …
When we left off at the end of the last blog we had arrived on the Sigatoka River at the Nasau Vocational Centre on the site of G.H.’s former land, where we enlisted a young construction trainee, Napolioni into the acting corps. We had our location and cast for the reenactment. The first time we …
Sorry for the delay in blogging, but it’s been an extremely busy two weeks and I have had no time to get on the computer and write an update. Because so much has happened in the last two weeks, I will have to break up this update into three separate blog postings. Here’s the first …
Bula! It has been over a week since my last blog post, so here’s an update. Alexi and I have been staying in Suva and have been dealing with pre-production logistics. While Alexi has been working on scripting and preparing the shooting schedule, I have had a series of meetings with people at the University …
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Bula from Suva! Alexi and I arrived in Fiji several days ago and have been very busy since then. We were in Sigatoka (say “Singatoka”) for most of the week and saw and learned some amazing things there. (Warning this is a fascinating but roundabout story. Nothing is direct in the making of Fiji Time!) …
Thanks to Christopher Carpenter, Shizuno Kyono, Mary Newberry, Robert Martin, Ashapurna Ghosh, Renee Gibbons, Morgan Monet, Sarolta Cump, the Newsome Family, Francis Marin, Yelena Giannuzzi and Gina Marin for contributing to the Fiji Time Indiegogo campaign!! We couldn’t appreciate it more!! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fiji-time-film