[ANU Pacific.Institute] Inaugural West Papua Mini Film Festival @ NFSA 4.20pm, 11 April 2024

[Talei Mangioni]

Dear ANU Pacific Institute members,
I write to share an upcoming event at 4.20pm on 11 April 2024 at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), nearby ANU campus.
INAUGURAL WEST PAPUA MINI FILM FESTIVAL:
The riveting selection of five short films looks to promote peace, justice, and education, and the prevention of harm to the thousands of internally displaced persons and refugees in West Papua. Soccer, hip-hop and emotional family dramas created by on-the-ground activist filmmakers tell stories of positive resistance, struggles for social justice, and the fight against environmental destruction. The films highlight conditions and developments in our near neighbour in West Papua, where there is civil and armed conflict, thousands of internally displaced people, and ongoing large-scale environmental destruction from mining and logging industries.

Join some of the filmmakers for a screening and Q&A at the National Film and Sound Archive on 11 April 2024 to publicise their situation and lend support to activists in West Papua as they struggle for basic human rights and land rights.

- Ticketing for the Canberra screening is available here:
https://tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/West-Papua-Mini-Film-Festival
- Canberra event Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/739159421730652

SYNOPSIS OF 5 FILM DOCUMENTARIES:
1. My Name is Pengungsi (Refugee)
Refugee Kogoya and Refugee Wakom, featured two of many internally displaced children, who were born in the midst of the jungle of West Papua, namely Nduga, Puncak Jaya and Maybrat, due to parents fled during the armed conflict between the Indonesian National Army/Police (TNI/POLRI) and the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB).
2. Black Pearl & General of the Field
After winning the fourth Indonesia Premier League, the Jayapura-based Persipura Football Club, better known as The Black Pearl; capture the imagination of many Papuans and broader Indonesian football community, as Papuans pride. The club is now a symbol of dignity and self-esteem of Papuan people.
3. Papuan Hip-Hop: When the Microphone Talks
With the ongoing humanitarian crises in West Papua, often marked by state violence, discrimination, as well social and political unrest, the hiphop community has fine-tuned and synced their beats with lyrics to highlight and awaken collective consciousness amongst the youth and broader Papuan music lovers.
4. The Sound of Grime Valley
The Grime Valley tells the story of the indigenous people of Grime Valley, defending their ancestral land from the onslaught of investment, as well as those who have been affected by palm oil investment. The forest, known for producing cocoa and being a place to see birds of paradise near Jayapura, is almost lost due to the palm oil company PT PNM opening it up for palm oil plantations, even though the operational permit has been revoked by the President.
5. Pepera 1969, A Democratic Integration?
A film about the highly controversial 1969 United Nations vote for West Papuan inclusion into the Republic of Indonesia. In what was meant to be a country wide vote only 1026 Papuans were included in the Indonesian military-controlled UN referendum. Those that did vote were threatened with violence and torture and death, and yet Australia and the United Nations accepted the so called, Act of Free Choice, as a legally binding referendum that sealed West Papua's fate as a part of Indonesia.

Thanks and warm regards,


Talei Luscia Mangioni

PhD Candidate l AAPS Secretary

School of Culture, History and Language

College of Asia and the Pacific

1.220, Coombs Building

The Australian National University

Acton ACT 2601


Please email Talei.Mangioni at flinders.edu.au for work related to the 'Reimagining Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts' project.


I pay my respects to Ngambri/Ngunnawal/Ngunawal peoples and communities (on whose sovereign lands I live and work), and acknowledge their ongoing connections and care for Country.
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