COMMUNITY PROJECTS
NATIVE LENS FILM FESTIVAL FILMMAKER LAB
The first iteration of the NLFF Filmmaker Lab took place in Honiara for three days from 28-30th October 2024. The lab consisted of filmmaking workshops, conversations, mentorship and activities for participants to strengthen filmmaking knowledge and industry-related interpersonal skills, enabling them to advance their film projects.
AUSTRALIAN SOUTH SEA ISLANDER STORIES
ASSI STORIES is a multimedia storytelling project for Australian South Sea Islanders to explore heritage, identity and story.
WANTOK STORI
WANTOK STORI is a collaboration and exchange project between Victoria and the Solomon Islands. It aims to explore and celebrate the diversity of Pacific culture and support emerging artists and young people.
PACIFIC STORIES – HARMONY ON THE MURRAY
Pacific Stories – Harmony on the Murray was a community film project that expanded on the Pacific Stories concept – to work with a group of young people from Indigenous and Pacific Islander backgrounds in Robinvale Victoria to produce two short films.
YOUNG MEDIA MAKERS PROJECT
The Young Media Makers Project (YMMP) was a community project set up in 2011 for diverse young people to be seen and heard through filmmaking.
PACIFIC STORIES
PACIFIC STORIES 2011 consisted of a series of discussions, storytelling and filmmaking workshop for participants of Pacific islander heritage to develop and produce a short film exploring identity and culture.
THE SHORT FILM PROJECT
The Short Film Project was a community film project in 2010 at the Yarraville Community Centre where Amie Batalibasi worked with a group of adult ESL students to assist them to develop, write, direct and edit their own short films exploring their own personal stories.
MY STORY, MY PLACE – THROUGH THE LENS
Melbourne filmmaker Amie Batalibasi engaged in an Artists in Schools residency at The Grange P-12 College in Hoppers Crossing, Melbourne working with a group of twelve year 5/6 students.