PAPE'ETE: Contact has won Le Grand Prix du Jury at the 8th Annual Pacific International Documentary Film Festival.
This documentary tells the story of Aborigines meeting civilisation in Australia.
This 78-minute documentary was made by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler.
A documentary about French Polynesia, Lucien Kimitete, a man from the land of men, directed by Dominique Agniel, won the Public's Prize.
Kimitete, from the Marquesas Islands, was a great ambassador of Marquesan culture in the 1990s.
He disappeared in May 2002 in the Tuamotu archipelago during an electoral campaign.
Luc Jacquet, this year's film festival president, described FIFO 2011 as a great success.
Besides the overall 37 films shown during this year's festival, FIFO also included conferences, roundtable discussions and workshops.
The festival also brought together audiovisual professionals from other regions interested in knowing about Oceania's culture in general and French Polynesia's culture in particular. - Agence Tahiti-Presse/Pacific Media Watch
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