I returned to Polynesia in 2015 in
the hope of making cinema
I think we can be both women
both Polynesian is both
signed I believe above all that there are
Polynesian stories that deserves to be
told
there are furry stories for heroin
main women in 2008 I had
made a short fiction film
was called is united with the united states so
I was in film school in
australia or victorine khaled georgia and
for my sic fan movie actually we are
income to tahiti to turn this short
footage with about fifteen
local technicians and four students
Australian so this film was
the story of a little girl who wants to
any price become takes place and she there
manages she will go into the plane
lambs except that she will not have the
right to have children so this movie
talk about this attachment to this child
is the fact of not being able to keep it
this film so I shot you one
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extract the 15 minutes of film thank you
so this short fiction film he has
traveled a lot he was in selection
in about fifteen festivals in the
world and he went to palm springs
he went to montreal he went to
biarritz he went to south africa
he went to new zealand not
dom tom ache and he was awarded in
ireland and australia
so in fact this movie he has a lot more
traveling that me and so this movie that
I had done in 2008 I’m trying to
develop it in feature-length fiction
so for next year in 2018
so that’s it will be ten years after the
short film history in version
long and rio he goes to dinner is
the intermingling of two stories of
women one in the past in a
Polynesian society precontact so
this famous takes place that you have read and
the other in a modern society at the
cutting-edge technology which
I’m really interested in this film
to understand the evolution of the place of
the woman in the world and see if the
things in actually evolve or if she
stagnates and also what interests me in
this is to understand the relationship
that we can have with the morning the
motherhood as a woman I wanted
also reminded that farewells have
really existed
it was itinerant artists who
went from islands to islands that worshiped the
oral gods and is in fact he dedicated all
their life at the he was that so that’s the
movie the long version of yali
ivanine and I would like it to be a
mix of genres so there are two
stories failing in parallel
and the two stories actually are done
echo I really like to mix genres
in the movies I’m doing I’m trying
always in the achievements that I
do I try to combine tradition and
modernity rooting and openness on
the world because I think it’s this
mix there which he will be part of
our evolution actually I believe
deeply that we need to
to rely on our roots for
look to the future and to
to better understand the world
is offered to us there is a Hawaiian proverb
who touched me a lot and who says
hikawa my month
ik ouamar op which actually means that
of a future lies in time spend in
does what this sentence implies
is that time spent can be rich in
know-how and
wisdom and if you let yourself be guided
by compass and he will take you to
perspectives and actions for the
future that will be good this contrast
between roots and leaves or
rooting and openness to the world
it was a tug that led to
always been in me I think since everything
small I think maybe it’s
makes of our insularity
the fact that it’s so small here when
we always want to look at what
Alex goes out and therefore I
I have always been torn between
the outside and the here and the elsewhere he
here there is a Melanesian proverb that
followed me for a few years that
I really like it so I’ll get it for you
link every man is torn between two
needs the need of the canoe it’s up to
say of the trip from the wreckage to
self and the need of the tree it is to
say of the rooting of identity and
men are constantly wandering between these
two need by helping sometimes to one
sometimes to another until the day they
understand that it is with the tree that one
manufactures the canoe so this tightness
froze suffered we’ll say and I went to
abroad and then I understood
does this myth
So I thought, well, I saw
abroad I saw how I was
I’ll take the best of it down there
I’m going home, I’m going to find
my roots and suddenly it gave
audiovisual productions that I
realize now so I came back
in Polynesia it had passed a
decade of year 1 and coming back here I
I realized that audiovisual
it was well developed it was a
good surprise
it’s always good to see that there is no
a lot of foreign productions that
come to turn here there are quite a few
local productions also available here
is what I love above all is
to see that we are more and more sensitive
in fact to the movie about identity on our
identity
on the other hand, there is something that
a little sad when I look at
today’s movies as a rule
is that the voice of women is very
poorly represented I do not know if you
see it by going to the cinema on
internet or on television
there are very few films that are
made by women I remember
that when I was still in school
cinema
so I was doing a license to
realization so this is a curriculum of
three years we were just two girls in
in my class 2 of 14 my cdd of
reduced classes but if we do it we
take this ratio there it is less than 15%
two women
this is basically they will become they
will become a director I watched
other promotions at school where
I was there was the first years
the second years the third year and
it was the same ratio each time very
very few women in this environment and
so I really believe that this
domain is a very masculine domain in
fact
then after my studies in australia
I went to Paris to exercise my
job it was very difficult in paris
it was very difficult in France to
actually realize to move to the
production
because it’s very much a medium
closed especially in the cinema world
and there I realized actually over
meetings and then also reading
the statistics that there was only one
film about five in France that is realized
by a woman
so that 20% of the films that are made
by women in France France must
know that it’s among the top ten
major film producers and
exporter of movies to the world so I ‘m
am asked does that mean that
this medium actually does not elicit at all
women’s interest because the
women have no vocation for these
trades there on all trades
techniques in the audiovisual and and there
had another finding even more
distressing is that in Paris in France
when we are a woman and we are
director we are paid 40% less
that a man
to equal degrees with equal skills on
always paid almost half
so the cnc so the national center
of cinema released a report in 2015 there
made the inventory a bit of
productions that they had helped in
France and therefore in France in 2015
there have been about 300 films that have
been helped by the cnc so on these 300
movies there are seventy five movies that have
been made by women
232 by men is just five
productions that was deco achievement
mix between a man and a woman
then after France I told myself
i wonder if in the united states it is
the same because when we know that the
United States is the mecca of cinema and
that and still they who govern the
the lack of audiovisual and cinema
with all the American influences
we receive on TV or cinema
eh ben in the united states it’s even worse
in the united states there are only seven for
hundred of women there realize and in film and
in television there is only 17% that
are women in the teams
techniques therefore 17% of technician of the
blow that raises a lot of questions
I find to watch that because the
united states is not the biggest
film producer in the world
they have been dethroned since very very
long by india and now they
just been dethroned by the nigeria
and china
but the united states still continue
to water the media
all means of communication with
their film so I said to myself so ya
no vocations for women
if too few women
study it who want to do art and
the realization and as few
technician women and in fact when we
back in France I realized
that we had internships and in relay not
poor trainees in the companies prod
in which I worked and she
said that in fact at school she was
there were as many women as men
in realizations in France in 2010 is
except that if we look at the numbers of the
but only 20% will do
movies
not only movies are not
made by women but in addition to
movies give a bad
representation of the woman 1 it’s my
opinion but that’s what I observe
usually when I watch a movie
there is very little room left
to the woman in the movies they have
often a supporting role they often have
secondary roles and cinema
still gives us a biased picture
of the woman between the woman object the
femme fatale the woman fidgeted the
service blonde what the beautiful plant
glamorous woman submissive woman at
focus maternal woman woman
guarantor of descent banks etc etc
it’s so stereotyped and full of
cliches the female roles now
in the audiovisual that sometimes it’s me
scared what especially when we think
that the film industry wants to be the
reflection of modern society
it really raises questions is this
what does it mean if I take what I
just told you before is that it
means that our modern society it
and sexist and macho
well then I take I think so
frankly in all honesty I think
that modern society today is
deeply macho and sexy and that’s
not that the case in the audio-visual not
touches a lot of sectors of activity
are just looking around you
how many women are leaders of
country have two women his boss
how many women’s business
working in the medical community that
two years of work in the world
scientist
how many women work in
computer science or aeronautics or in
the army and audiovisual in France in
remains 20% here I think it’s pretty much
almost the same we are touched you too
take the dixit you open it yourself
look at the 200 biggest
Polynesian companies and I you
guaranteed that we are far from the
parity
personally myself vision of the
woman she is really far from all
clichés that the cinema wants to impose on us
because for me the woman is
especially the women I meet in
my surroundings or everyday I find
that it’s women strong women
endearing women who have
weaknesses that have problems yes them
neurotic women there are some maniacs there
in there is a little bit of everything in fact it’s
women do this many facets
and we should not remain cataloged in
gift of submission or other I think
that today’s woman she is
independent she is released and especially
she and enduring
when a woman if you observe her
around you one between your grandmothers
your mothers your sisters your great backs
mother but she manages everything she manages and
their careers and their kids and
their hobbies and their sport and their
animals and parents and big ones
parents
she takes care of everything they manage their
vacation and she comes like this to
juggle a bit with everything so
I especially believe that women are
endearing and they are strong and
they are far from the stereotypical image
we want to give it to us
and so these women that’s how
I want to describe them in my films
that’s how I want my
heroines be I think a woman a
little galley but she always goes
raise
so and alleo iban and I do it mostly
because I want to know who
are we as a woman
today what is our place
what is our role is what we have
really evolved in society is this
that our place has changed our positions
have changed
do we have deep aspirations
and especially how do we see
our future
I strongly believe that cinema and
movies have an impact on the world
I think internet TV
movies in general can play a
role and influence the behavior of
I want to believe that cinema
can change the world maybe it’s
utopian but I think it’s
possible and I especially believe that the
cinema it can change the world but of
positive way
except that this positive evolution
it will pass only if people make
programs and passes messages there
thoughtful and networks this evolution
positive for me it will only pass if
there is a multiplicity of looks or
multiplicity of visions on the world
a diversity of genres is therefore a
diversity of achievement I believe
especially that it takes a diversity bath of
director is also a director
thank you very much thank you all and dare
doing cinema
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