Sport, a generous, dynamic theme

Thanks to the 2007 South Pacific Games, several thousand competitors and organisers from South Pacific countries and territories gathered in Apia. These games confirmed the strong appeal of all sports amongst Oceanians, whether in teams or individually, traditional or modern. Drawing on this experience, CFI has decided to base the 2008 training course on the theme of sport.

Trainees keen to promote their identity

The 10 trainees are all young directors, production managers or journalists, from the eight South Pacific TV channels: the Cook Islands, the Fiji Islands, New Caledonia, Papua-New Guinea, French Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.

An “off-road” trainer

For the third time, CFI will be calling on the experience of Philippe Radoux to lead the CFI workshop. As a cameraman and director in his own right, he is called upon regularly to share his international experience as well as his analysis of diversity in far-flung cultures.

Two weeks of immersion

The CFI workshop will start on Monday 21 January 2008, to be wrapped up at the FIFO closing ceremony on 2 February 2008. The two-week immersion training course will help the trainees, divided into three groups, to work on their writing and experiment several filming and interviewing techniques, then go on to the editing and mixing of their subjects. The high point of the course will be the presentation of their work to the public during the closing ceremony.

Further information about the FIFO: filmfestivaloceanie.org