Contributed by Benjamin Wheeler
These local Fijian Film Producers get centerstage at the Inaugural RamaRama Film Festival October 2022. Meet the artists below:
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"Our aim is to get anyone interested in film - whether it be writing, acting, cinematography and camera work, directing, editing, or producing - together in the same place to talk FIJI MOVIES" says film festival producer and film enthusiast Benjamin Wheeler.
RARAMA, an iTaukei word that means “a light in the darkness” itself calls to mind the experience of sitting in the shadows and watching a film, which flickers into life before our very eyes. But more importantly, RARAMA symbolises a new day, after the struggles of the past two years for the Fijian arts scene in general.
It is hoped that the Fijian film industry, already telling its cinematic stories on the small screen, will break new ground in the next few years, as festivals such as this, Film Fiji’s recent International and KULA Short Film Festival, and the forthcoming second Suva Human Rights Film Festival create spaces where filmmakers and film lovers can congregate to use films to create talanoa, and plan to make their own movies, that tell their own stories.
The RARAMA ART FESTIVAL ran from October 1st to October 15th at the Oceania Centre, USP Laucala Campus
For more on the film festival please contact Ben Wheeler at bentsku.wheeler@gmail.com
