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The Colonial Syndrome is a project by the University of Ulster, developed under the direction of Professor Kristian Lasslett and Dr Ruth Saovanna in association with the Bougainville Peoples Research Center and Arsam International.

Project Director:
Professor Kristian Lasslett and Dr Ruth Saovanna
Texts, Film and Archive Curator:
Professor Kristian Lasslett
Online Film Series Creator:
Olivier Pollet
Film Editing:
Charlotte Buisson-Tissot

Film Directors:
Alexandre Berman and Olivier Pollet
Cinematography & Sound:
Alexandre Berman and Olivier Pollet
Music:
Xavier Thiry
Post-Production:
Fourth World Films
Researchers:
Dr Ruth Saovanna, Professor Kristian Lasslett, Theonila Roka-Matbob, Nathan Matbob, Clive Porabou, Alexandre Berman and Olivier Pollet

It is a spin off of two projects produced by Arsam International, Fourth World Films and France Télévisions: the television film the Panguna Syndrome (2017, 52’) - which was short-listed for the prestigious Albert Londres Prize – and the feature length documentary Ophir (2020, 97’), which premiered and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at FIFO in Tahiti in February 2020, and which is due to be released internationally in 2020.


Check the film's official page.