OCEANIA IMPACT PITCH for INDIGENATION
Presentation
Since its creation, FIFO has become a regional event that opens a dialogue between the islands and territories of Oceania as well as an incomparable window on the region! It aims to promote Oceanian cinema and filmmakers on screens around the world. An annual meeting with the Pacific which takes place in Tahiti. A must in our country, our region and well beyond our shores, our festival innovates, creates and brings together year after year.
The OCEANIA IMPACT PITCH for INDIGENATION is a unique opportunity for committed documentary project leaders to present their pitches to a panel of professionals and decision-makers from Oceania and Europe (festivals, producers, financiers, broadcasters). A moment of meeting, training and presentation for Oceanian project leaders, broadcasters and producers to meet and bring to life original, daring and committed Oceanian audiovisual projects. documentary project leaders will present their film to a panel of professionals and decision-makers from Oceania and Europe (festivals, producers, financiers, broadcasters).
You want to raise public awareness about a cause, denounce an injustice, or inspire collective action, and find partners and funding for your next documentary: this meeting is for you. You will be able to present your vision, your strategy and your objectives to create a social, environmental or political impact thanks to your film.
Your documentary project must be in line with the values of FIFO and thus participate in the preservation and promotion of the indigenous cultures of Oceania.
The 7 candidates selected for the Oceania Impact Pitch will participate in a week of training and development in Pitch methods and the development of an impact campaign in Tahiti during the festival before presenting their project to the Oceania jury Impact Pitch: they will have 7 minutes (trailer included) to convince, followed by 7 minutes of discussions with the jury and the public.
More details
Application deadline: December 15, 2025.
Contact address for sending the application: [email protected]
Please note: application files must be written in French & English or only in English. The pitch training sessions as well as the pitch session will take place in English.
Announcement of the selection: 4 to 8 projects will be selected from the files received, they will be contacted on January 8, 2026.
The application file must include:
PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT
- Title in English
- Original title, if different [not required]
- Logline (350 characters, spaces included)
- Short synopsis (800 characters, spaces included)
- HD visual [Screenshot or display in landscape format, 10MB max., without text]
- Link to trailer [In English or with English subtitles, 4mins max., Vimeo preferably. Make sure the video is freely accessible and downloadable] or any other visual support [PDF] to best illustrate your project
- Filming start date & expected delivery date
- Is the project in post-production?
- Other event(s) where your project has already been pitched (with their date(s))
BUDGET AND FINANCING PLAN
Financing plan
VERSION(S)
- Filming format(s) – e.g. 4K, FHD, Web / Social networks
- Film format(s) – e.g. Feature length, Series, Language(s), Duration(s)
TEAM i.e. Producer(s), director(s) & Partner(s)
- Production company and country original
- Production company profile (300 characters, spaces included)
- Name of producer(s) & organic (400 characters, spaces included)
- Name of director(s), bio (400 characters, spaces included) & filmography (3 titles at most) [not required]
- Is this the director’s first or second film?
- Possible co-producer(s) – company(ies) and country
- Possible broadcaster(s) and platform(s) and country
- Possible international distributor(s) and countries.
- What are you looking for? – for example: financing, distribution etc.
INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT LEADER
- Name & first name
- HD photo
- Gender & age
- Company, function & country
- Email & mobile address
- Any other information that you consider relevant to share with the selection jury (biographies, moodboard, etc.) [1 single PDF file, 10MB max.]
IMPACT
- What motivates you to consider an impact campaign for your film?
- Can you describe the key messages that your film wishes to convey and the social, cultural, or environmental problem it addresses?
- What specific impact goals do you hope to achieve with your film, and what changes do you hope to see emerge from it?
- Who is your target audience, who needs to see the film for things to change?
- What would success look like?
Return to oceania Pitch for indigination 2024 edition
Workshop
Les 7 candidats sélectionnés pour l’Oceania Impact Pitch participeront à une semaine de formation et de perfectionnement aux méthodes du Pitch et au développement d’une campagne d’impact. Les ateliers seront animés par Hollie Fifer, de la Doc Society.
Le 15 janvier : vidéoconférence > Première rencontre entre les candidats et le formateur. session de présentation
Du 16 au 29 janvier : rencontres individuelles
Lundi 5 février :
> 11h00 à 13h00 : Atelier sur l’impact
> 14h30 à 16h30 : Atelier Pitch
Mardi 6 février :
> 9h30 à 13h : Découverte du Orero (art oratoire tahitien) avec Heremoana Maamaatuaiahutapu
> 14h30 à 16h30 : Atelier de pitch
Mercredi 7 février :
Toute la journée, séances individuelles avec les porteurs de projets
Hollie est actuellement directrice des programmes australiens de Doc Society.
En tant que documentariste, les films de Hollie ont été projetés dans des festivals et diffusés en Australie et à l’étranger. THE OPPOSITION est le premier long métrage documentaire de Hollie, produit par
Media Stockade, qui a été présenté en première mondiale à Hot Docs et IDFA en 2016 avant de remporter le Grand Prix au FIFO, d’être projeté au Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU, de remporter le prix du meilleur long métrage documentaire aux Oz Flix Independent Film Awards et d’être projeté dans plus de 35 pays. Le dernier court-métrage d’Hollie, UNBALANCED, a récemment été diffusé en avant-première dans la série Vox Dox des journaux australiens The Age/Sydney Morning Herald.
Hollie siège au conseil d’administration de l’Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) et du Castlemaine Documentary Festival (CDoc). Auparavant, elle a été tutrice indépendante en réalisation de documentaires au NIDA et à l’AFTRS, codirectrice de The Artists Guild et sélectionnée pour le programme M-Power de MECCA Shark Island.
Session Pitch et Annonce
du Lauréat
Après une semaine d’ateliers, les pitcheurs présenteront leur projet devant le jury de l’Oceania Impact Pitch : ils auront 7 minutes (trailer compris) pour convaincre, suivies de 7 minutes d’échanges avec le jury et le public.
Annonce du prix de l’Oceania Impact Pitch
Le lauréat se vera remettre un chèque de 200 000 XPF
Le Jury
Caroline BEHAR
Anusha DURAY
Laurent CORTEEL
Summer WHAREKAWA
Alex WALKDEN
Caroline HOCQUARD
Commissioning Editor – Specialist Factual Unit
Rufus RICHARDSON
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