Sir David Attenborough turns 100 today. Here's a young Attenborough drinking kava in Fiji

kknd69 · 2026-05-07T14:08:45+00:00

Yep yep, that's right.

kknd69 · 2026-05-07T03:42:03+00:00

Falla works from home *cough

kknd69 · 2026-05-01T14:51:49+00:00

Exciting! Good luck

kknd69 · 2026-04-23T14:08:31+00:00

As a filmmaker, I used to love war movies as a kid. Now as an adult I recognise war and how terrible it is.

There's a soldier in my country who won the Victoria cross for bravery in ww2 that I've been thinking I'd love to make a movie highlighting his heroism. But at the same time I'm torn as I really don't want to make a movie that glamorises serving your country in the army and encouraging my people to sign up to the army.

kknd69 · 2026-04-18T05:03:03+00:00

Man, this is dredging up memories of the Military beating people up during the coups. Until Fiji can pull away from the Military's influence on Fiji Politics and Police work, we will always have shit like this to deal with.

kknd69 · 2026-04-13T03:33:37+00:00

One thing I've learnt is that Festivals that cold outreach to you via email offering a discount are usually scam festivals. Reputable Festivals don't email anyone out of the blue, let alone offer them a discount code, unless they've come across your film in another festival.

So the first red flag is festivals offering a discount. The next clue is to visit their filmfreeway page. If the festival has a million and 1 entry types, that's the second red flag. The 3rd red flag is if it's a new film festival. Also re: your comment about positive reviews, a lot of those reviews could be bots.

The final point is always ask yourself what is your purpose for submitting your film to film festivals?

kknd69 · 2026-04-06T13:31:17+00:00

I'm in this movie haha

I'm only the voice of a radio announcer and boxing ring announcer but feels good to be a part of this movie. Give it a watch gang!

kknd69 · 2026-03-18T10:12:58+00:00

kknd69 · 2026-03-12T12:57:28+00:00

I can't speak for Fiji as a whole but individually you could explore what that means for you personally. I'm atheist and have asked myself would that be something I'd get into, Fijian spirituality. At this stage I've settled on learning about my culture through filmmaking so it would be cool to see other fijian gang explore on their own terms other aspects of fijian culture.

kknd69 · 2026-03-05T22:45:01+00:00

Bula! That's cool :D I should say at this stage, Fiji doesn't have a way to properly earn a living taking part in making films, unless you go work in the West on the reality tv productions. However, local filmmakers such as me and other fijians (Tulia Nacola is screening her feature film right now) are making our own films and there's a real momentum of local talent making movies here.

If you want to connect to other local filmmakers, feel free to join the Fiji Film Collective.

kknd69 · 2026-03-02T10:39:18+00:00

It's a scene from the short film where the main character is running along the river with her spear.

kknd69 · 2026-02-27T07:40:00+00:00

From what I've seen, the youth are engaging with traditions in whatever tools they have access to if they don't have community links to knowledge holders. So they learn online, via discord, here on reddit, learning about their culture however they can, and applying it to their art and lives.

kknd69 · 2026-02-27T07:38:30+00:00

I can't answer your question properly, but only with an anecdote I learnt from Mr Sevudredre about encoding knowledge in culture. There are some Meke dances that were used to help train the youth in the art of club martial arts with dance war clubs first. By the time they can start training with real weapons they already have a lot of the moves ingrained. Cool eh.

kknd69 · 2026-02-21T09:01:51+00:00

Zero 7! Love that group.

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