Breaking news: Tanna nominated for Academy Award for best foreign language film
Posted: January 25, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News | Tags: cinema, Film, Tanna, Vanuatu 8 Comments
In a first for film in Vanuatu and the Pacific islands region, The film Tanna, shot on location in Vanuatu using a local, untrained cast of actors, has been officially nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film by the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Congrats to our Foreign Language Film nominees! #Oscars #OscarNoms https://t.co/LtFnYLHgyl
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The Academy (@TheAcademy) January 24, 2017Tanna was co-directed by Australian filmmakers Bentley Dean and Martin Butler and shot in Yakel village near Lenakel on Tanna. This nomination is Australia’s first for the best foreign language film category, and most of the dialogue in the film is in the south-west Tannese dialect, Navhal.
Feeling a little something like this after the news #TANNA is nominated for #Oscars2017 #foreignlanguage !… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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TANNA (@TannaMovie) January 24, 2017
Good to kick start off.. Congrats Tannese Yakel communities.
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Thanks and good tumas blo save’ but my comments is, I think my people have been exploited and although the film is making its name to the top, how are these custom village people, the film actors, the island and the country been compensated for what they have to go through to produce this film including any protocol in this country? Can some one reply to this comments with some evidence?.
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Fear of exploitation, or tall poppy syndrome? That’s a serious claim to make, and one that clearly has no evidence at all to support it. The filmmakers have worked through the Vanuatu Cultural Centre from day one, and have the total support of the chiefs and community.
Read their response to your comment here: https://vanuatudaily.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/tanna-filmmakers-respond-to-exploitation-claims/
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Congratulations Tanna Films & Actors. You deserve to be awarded.
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Amen nomo Reginald Tarilaka. Happy New Year
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AWEsome!! TANNAsome!!! Tuff Tumas! Congrats to ALL involved!! Go VANUATU Go!!
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Congratulations Tanna film-makers, actors, Yakel and all Tannese communities – what a way to make a global impression!
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Wooooow, proud of this award, congratulations to Tanna Film and the actors. Top wantaem
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