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MISS PACIFIC: BEAUTY AND THE SEA SYNOPSIS!
POSTER/ KEY ART HERE
A beauty pageant in Suva, Fiji sets the stage for a documentary unlike any other. The theme of the pageant is “preserving our environment the Pacific way” due to the adverse effects of global warming on most Pacific Island countries. The girls put on a show in their cultural attire and perform songs and dances from their native countries, but amidst it all they give their heart-rending experiences of how their homelands are flooding, making way for a place that may never be home again for any one.
FILMMAKERSDIRECTOR/WRITER………………………………………………..MARY LAMBERT PRODUCER/WRITER………………………………………………….TERESA TICO PRODUCER………………………………………………………….PAGE OSTROW CINEMATOGRAPHER……………………………………………..LAURIE GILBERT …………………………………………………………………………….GUY LIVNETH EDITOR………………………………………………………..MICHELLE HARRISON
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FILMMAKERS
HERE
Some of the crew from the movie. Director Mary Lamber (back row second from the left), Producer Teresa Tico (front row to the left), Director of Photography Jeff DePonte (back row left) and Camera Operator Lauren Calhoun (back row to the right).
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DIRECTOR’S BIO Mary Lambert is an American film director. She has directed music videos, television episodes, and feature films. Lambert was born in Helena, Arkansas, the daughter of Martha W. (née Kelly) and Jordan Bennett Lambert III, a rice and cotton farmer. Her younger sister is former Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. Lambert graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a B.F.A. Lambert directed Chris Isaak’s first music video “Dancin’” and Janet Jackson’s “Nasty” and “Control” music videos. She also directed videos for Annie Lennox, Mick Jagger, The Go-Go’s, Whitney Houston, Alison Krauss, Live, Mötley Crüe, Sting, Debbie Harry, Tom Tom Club and others. She directed many of Madonna’s early videos including “Borderline”, “Like a Virgin”, “Material Girl”, “La Isla Bonita”, and “Like a Prayer”. In 1987 she released her debut feature, the stylish and controversial Siesta, starring Ellen Barkin and Jodie Foster. It was nominated for the IFP Spirit Award for best first feature. She is known to horror fans for directing the 1989 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Pet Sematary and its sequel, Pet Sematary II. Lambert worked as director on the 2011 Syfy horror film Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. Currently, she is directing television programs for On The Road In America.
Submerged burial ground and The Queens arriving in Suva, Fiji by “vaka” canoe
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PRODUCER’S BIO Teresa Tico is a Hawaii based attorney and film producer. She graduated from the University of California at San Diego summa cum laude, and from the University of San Diego School of Law. She is known for handling cases of first impression in the environmental sector of law and is nationally recognized for her work in the natural resources case, Pflueger v. Marvin, which resulted in the largest EPA fine against an individual polluter in U.S. history. In 2000, she turned her legal skills to film production, making the documentary environmental films Learning To Sea, Going To Antarctica, and Va’a, among others, to raise awareness about the cultural and environmental impacts of global warming. Currently, she is in production with Director Mary Lambert on a film about declining fisheries for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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THE QUEENS
Portraits of Miss Tonga Paea Williams and Miss French Polynesia Aruhoia Marine Biret.
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THE QUEENS
Portraits of Miss Samoa Tususaleia and Miss Aotearoa Paretaunu Tuhi Tuhi Randall.
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AWARDS Film Festival of Colorado Audience and Jury Awards Best Environmental Documentary Hawaii Ocean Film Festival Best Film Metropolitan Film Festival of New York Special Mention Woods Hole Film Festival First Runner-up Short Documentary Los Angeles Movie Awards Award of Excellence Best Special Effects Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival Spirit of Independence Award San Francisco Ocean Film Festival Best Ocean Culture Film
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LINKS Miss South Pacific Official site http://www.misssouthpacificthemovie.com/ Miss South Pacific trailers http://www.misssouthpacificthemovie.com/?page_id=66 Miss South Pacific IMDb page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1929314/ Fenix Pictures http://www.fenixpictures.com/