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Amie Batalibasi with Regina Lepping and Georgianna Lepping

It’s happening: The NLFF Filmmaker Lab 2024

In late October 2024, I will travel to the Solomon Islands to facilitate the first-ever Native Lens Film Festival Filmmaker Lab. This is particularly special because I get to go back to my island home to support new and emerging filmmakers to tell their stories. I am collaborating with two truly phenomenal women, twin sisters …

It’s happening: The NLFF Filmmaker Lab 2024

Aeasi by Amie Batalibasi at Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne, 2017. Image by Rachel Main.

‘AEASI’ 360 Virtual Reality Documentary Premieres in Canada and Australia

In October 2018, the 360 virtual reality work produced for my solo exhibition last year will screen at imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto, Canada and in Sydney and Canberra as part of the Pasifika Film Festival. There is no direct translation of the word ‘horizon’ in my family’s language but ‘aeasi’ means: as far as …

‘AEASI’ 360 Virtual Reality Documentary Premieres in Canada and Australia