Tanna (film)

Tanna

Film poster
Directed by Martin Butler
Bentley Dean[1]
Produced by Carolyn Johnson
Bentley Dean
Martin Butler[2]
Screenplay by Martin Butler
Bentley Dean
John Collee[3]
Starring Marie Wawa
Mungau Dain
Music by Antony Partos[4]
Cinematography Bentley Dean[5]
Edited by Tania Nehme[3]
Distributed by Lightyear Entertainment
Release dates
  • 7 September 2015 (2015-09-07) (Venice)
Running time
 100 minutes
Country Australia
Language Nauvhal
Box office $80,224[6]

Tanna is a 2015 Australian film set on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific, depicting the true story of a couple who decided to marry for love, rather than obey their parents' wishes.[7] In some ways similar to Romeo and Juliet, the movie is based on an actual marriage dispute.[8]

The film won the Audience Award Pietro Barzisa at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.[9] It was selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.[8][10]

Production

The film was shot entirely on location. Dean lived with his family for seven months in Tanna. Most of the cast played their own roles in the film - "The chief played the chief, the medicine man played the medicine man, the warriors played the warriors," stated the film's cultural director, Jimmy Joseph Nako. Dain was cast because he was considered the village's most handsome man.[11] The film is shot in the Navhal and Nafe languages.[12] The cast members did not regard the filming as being difficult because their roles were " performing what we were used to in our daily life."[13] A copy of Ten Canoes was screened as an example for the actors.[14]

This is Butler and Dean's third collaboration, after the documentaries Contact and First Footprints.[15] Dean came to Vanuatu in 2003 to research a story on the John Frum movement for Dateline and wanted to return there to create something larger. Dean wanted to tell a local story and give his children a chance to live in the village, and developed the storyline in collaboration with the Yakel people.[16]

Screening

Just after Cyclone Pam, a special screening was held for the tribe.[17] The film has screened at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival,[18] where it won the Audience Award Pietro Barzisa,[9] and Bentley Dean was awarded Best Cinematographer,[16] at the BFI London Film Festival,[19] and at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival.[5]

Reception

It has a score of 74% on Metacritic.[20]

Accolades

Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref(s)
AACTA Awards
(6th)		 Best Film Martin Butler, Bentley Dean and Carolyn Johnson Pending [21]
Best Direction Martin Butler and Bentley Dean Pending
Best Cinemtography Bentley Dean Pending
Best Original Music Score Antony Partos Pending
Best Sound James Ashton, Emma Bortignon and Martin Butler Pending

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Australian movie Tanna wins two major awards at Venice film festival". the Guardian.
  2. ↑ Screenaustralia.gov.au
  3. 1 2 Maricris Faderugao (5 November 2015). "'Tanna' brings Vanuatu's Shakespearean tale to Australia". International Business Times AU.
  4. ↑ Richard Kuipers. "'Tanna' Review: The First Film Shot in Vanuatu – Variety". Variety.
  5. 1 2 "Tanna – Adelaide Film Festival 2015". adelaidefilmfestival.org.
  6. ↑ "Tanna (2015) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  7. ↑ Luke Buckmaster. "Tanna review – volcanic South Pacific love story shot entirely in Vanuatu". the Guardian.
  8. 1 2 "Australia selects 'Tanna' as foreign-language Oscar contender". SBS. 23 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  9. 1 2 Settimana Internazionale della Critica. "All Awards 2015 announced: Audience Award Pietro Barzisa to Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler". sicvenezia.it.
  10. ↑ Frater, Patrick (23 August 2016). "Australia Selects 'Tanna' as Foreign-Language Oscar Contender". Variety. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  11. ↑ Kathy Marks (11 September 2015). "Big-screen debut for Pacific Island tribe who regard Prince Philip as a god". The Independent.
  12. ↑ Lamont Lindstrom (5 November 2015). "Award-winning film Tanna sets Romeo and Juliet in the south Pacific". The Conversation Australia.
  13. ↑ Bodey, M. (2015, Oct 31). Aussies put tribe in the picture on world of film. Weekend Australian Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1728288604
  14. ↑ "Australian film Tanna to tell Romeo and Juliet-like tale in Melanesia". SBS Movies.
  15. ↑ Heraldsun.com.au
  16. 1 2 Ben Bohane (15 September 2015). ""Tanna" film a hit at the Venice festival". Pacific Institute of Public Policy. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  17. ↑ Garry Maddox. "Tanna: the ancient Vanuatu tribe who had never watched a film now star in one". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  18. ↑ "La Biennale di Venezia – 8 September". labiennale.org.
  19. ↑ Paul Heath (17 October 2015). "The 2015 BFI London Film Festival winners announced". The Hollywood News. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  20. ↑ "Tanna Metacritic listing" (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/tanna). Metacritic. Accessed 24 September 2016.
  21. ↑ "Hacksaw Ridge leads with 13 AACTA nominations". Sky News. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.

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