The 10th Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (Hraff) will open tomorrow night with the Australian premiere of documentary The Opposition, directed by Hollie Fifer.
The feature doc details the struggle of 3,000 residents of the Paga Hill community in Papua New Guinea, who watched helplessly as police bulldozed their homes to make way for a luxury resort.
Two community leaders volunteered to help but ended up making very different choices, and one of them, Dame Carol Kidu, would end up lodging an injunction against the film.
Fifer began researching the subject while still at Aftrs, travelling to Png in 2012 after receiving a research grant from the ABC.
.On the second day the demolition of the Paga Hill community happened, and it was quite clear that this was the story,. recalls Fifer, who would travel to Png seven times over the next four years.
The young filmmaker served as her own...
The feature doc details the struggle of 3,000 residents of the Paga Hill community in Papua New Guinea, who watched helplessly as police bulldozed their homes to make way for a luxury resort.
Two community leaders volunteered to help but ended up making very different choices, and one of them, Dame Carol Kidu, would end up lodging an injunction against the film.
Fifer began researching the subject while still at Aftrs, travelling to Png in 2012 after receiving a research grant from the ABC.
.On the second day the demolition of the Paga Hill community happened, and it was quite clear that this was the story,. recalls Fifer, who would travel to Png seven times over the next four years.
The young filmmaker served as her own...
- 5/3/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
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