Vanuatu proud of it's movie "Tanna" despite it missing out on Oscar Featured
Nominees for Best Foreign Language Film Tanna arrive on the red carpet for the 89th Oscars. Nominees for Best Foreign Language Film Tanna arrive on the red carpet for the 89th Oscars. Photo: AFP
28 February, 2017. People in Vanuatu remain very proud of the film Tanna despite the disappointment of it missing out at this year's Academy Awards.
It was nominated in the best foreign film category which was won by The Salesman.
Hundreds gathered at the national conference centre in Port Vila yesterday to watch the Academy Awards live and support the film.
Media director of the Vanuatu newspaper the Daily Post, Dan McGarry was at the live screening.
He said there was a subdued atmosphere in the conference centre after the winner was announced, but the crowd rallied when the main characters of the film got up to thank them for their support.
"They are hugely proud, you should have heard the applause when Dain and Wawa the two lead characters in the movie. When they took the stage there was really a heartfelt outpouring of applause and it is clear that the people of Tanna are immensely proud of their acheivement."
-RNZI
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Congratulations to the film Tanna for such a great effort and achievement on behalf of all of us in the Great Moana Nui. You might have missed out (like Disney's film Moana), which I would like to think to be that close, on winning an Academy Award but your being merely nominated for the Oscar speaks loudly for itself in terms of both the recognition and appreciation of the collective efforts of all the parties involved in the artistic productive process.
In saying that, one still wonders as to how the panel of judges, as were the film critics, encountered the levels of mediation of such multiple artforms as film-scripting/film-writing, film-making, film-acting and story-telling, where they are unified into one whole, on the one hand, and the respective intersecting or connecting and separating human meanings (in both film-scripting/film-writing and story-telling), images by means of light and colours and bodily gestures within and across these genres, on the other.
We may not know the whole truth but we can however find consolation by curiously albeit critically observing the films on their terms, where symmetry, harmony and beauty can be independently established (what art/film is) as opposed to seeing them in terms of human preference or human use, that is, in terms of whether we like it or not (what art/film does). One can only best guess and perhaps only God knows!