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Tanna (film)

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Directed by	Martin Butler and Bentley Dean[1]
Produced by	Carolyn Johnson, Bentley Dean, Martin Butler[2]
Screenplay by	Martin Butler, Bentley Dean and John Collee[3]
Starring	Marie Wawa, Mungau Dain
Music by	Antony Partos[4]
Cinematography	Bentley Dean[5]
Edited by	Tania Nehme[3]

Tanna is a 2015 film set on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific, telling the true story of a couple who decided to marry for love, rather than obey their parents' wishes.^[6]

The film won the Audience Award Pietro Barzisa at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.^[7]

Production

The film was shot entirely on location. Dean lived with his family for seven months in Tanna. Most of the cast played their own roles in the film - "The chief played the chief, the medicine man played the medicine man, the warriors played the warriors," stated the film's cultural director, Jimmy Joseph Nako. Dain was cast because he was considered the village's most handsome man.^[8] The film is shot in the Navhal and Nafe languages.^[9] The cast members did not regard the filming as being difficult because their roles were " performing what we were used to in our daily life."^[10] A copy of Ten Canoes was screened as an example for the actors.^[11]

This is Butler and Dean's third collaboration, after the documentaries Contact and First Footprints.^[12] Dean came to Vanuatu in 2003 to research a story on the John Frum movement for Dateline and wanted to return there to create something larger. Dean wanted to tell a local story and give his children a chance to live in the village, and developed the storyline in collaboration with the Yakel people.^[13]

Screening

Just after Cyclone Pam, a special screening was held for the tribe.^[14] The film has screened at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival,^[15] where it won the Audience Award Pietro Barzisa,^[7] and Bentley Dean was awarded Best Cinematographer,^[13] the BFI London Film Festival,^[16] and at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival.^[5]