Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson are well-known documentary filmmakers in Australia. Their first work, First Contact (1983) won a US Academy Award nomination. Later, they spent nearly ten years to finish Joe Leahy's Neighbors (1988) and Black Harvest (1992), which along with First Contact became the well-known “Papua New Guinea Highland Trilogy,” receiving numerous international awards and accolades. Their unique way of filming is spending a long period of time to live with the people they record. Their purpose is to document reality faithfully, not to arrange and manipulate the scenes portrayed. In the “Papua New Guinea Highland Trilogy,” the struggle is expressed between the traditional tribal culture and Western capitalism along with the tragedy caused by it.
Facing the Music (2001)、Rats in the Ranks (1996)、Black Harvest (1992)、Joe Leahy's Neighbors (1988)、First Contact (1983)
Joe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinea highland interior. His relations with the local Ganiga tribe who work his coffee plantation on their land are difficult at times. However he has successfully managed to get them to agree to open a second plantation in partnership with him. Things are looking…