Posted on: Thursday, June 6, 2002

Glimpse a Fiji film in progress

By Derek Paiva
Advertiser Staff Writer

Fijian filmmaker Vilsoni Hereniko will show scenes from his coming dramatic feature "Fire In The Womb" tonight and tomorrow night at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.

Scheduled for release next January and undergoing editing here, "Fire In The Womb" is the first feature-length film directed by an indigenous Fijian. Hereniko, also the film's writer, teaches Pacific islands literature, theatre and film at UH-Manoa.

"Fire In The Womb" was shot on the Fijian island of Rotuma last summer and stars Rena Owen ("Once Were Warriors") and a mostly Rotuman cast.

Along with "Womb" executive producer and former Hawai'i International Film Festival founding director Jeanette Paulson Hereniko, the director will lead a discussion on the making of the film at 7 tonight and tomorrow night in Krauss Hall, Room 12.

Admission is free. Information: 956-8866.