6. Projects

Papua New Guinea

NATIONAL FILM INSTITUTE

Notice to the general public

NFI’s ONGOING PROJECTS 2013 - 2014

FILMMAKING PROJECT

Currently our project involving filmmaking is titled KIRAPIM WOK PIKSA 2. It is funded by the SPSN and will be taking place in our new Studio Complex, which is another project of ours. This project, KWP 2 is a filmmaking workshop that would be using a Tutorial from KWP 1 which was shot in 2010. The workshop is an initiative of the NFI to teach and encourage grassroots filmmaking. With the advance of technology, cameras and accessories are getting smaller and more affordable, this project will try to help grassroots use that, and will teach them the basics of filmmaking so that they themselves can be a part of helping the NFI and the country in documenting their own cultures. All these will then be stored in the Archives.

FILMMAKING PROJECT

BUILDING PROJECT

This is our most exciting project ever. After the old NFI Studios burned to ashes some ten years ago, Chris Owen, NFI’s previous director, Robert Buleka, NFI’s current Director and a few NFI staff set down to designing a Proposal to the Government for a new Purpose Built Studio. After so many hiccups, the NFI got the much needed funding in 2011. And this has seen the NFI contracting Laikos Architects for Architectural Design, Ron Napitalai for Engineering Design and the Works Department for Building. We were told by the Works Department that our building would be completed in June 2013 but we are still waiting and it is now January 2014. We are all looking forward to moving out of our rented space into our very own building.

ARCHIVING PROJECT

This project is an ongoing project. The NFI archivist is currently working on creating a database of what we have in the archives. She and a temporary assistant are going through the whole beta cam, VHS, Hi-8 and Digital 8 collection to see what is worth saving and then all will be transfered to Standard DV tapes where they can be made into DVDs.

The sad issue is that for the 35mm and 16mm films that we have, we can only do our best to take care of them in the vault as we do not have the resources, both equipment and funds to ship them to Australia where they can be transfered onto Digital Tapes.

So all we are doing now is making sure the temperature in the Archival Vault is just right for the films. Read More..

ARCHIVING PROJECT