# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vilsoni-hereniko
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:30:30.325Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vilsoni-hereniko"
name: "Vilsoni Hereniko"
slug: "vilsoni-hereniko"
description: "Vilsoni Hereniko is a Rotuman playwright, screenwriter, film director, academic, author, actor, poet, and master weaver. He is best known as the writer-director of The Land Has Eyes, the first feature film shot on Rotuma, and for a long academic career as a scholar of Pacific literature, theatre and film. Hereniko has served as director of Pacific studies centres, edited the academic journal The Contemporary Pacific, lectured widely, and in recent years has produced short films, documentaries, and scholarly essays that foreground Indigenous aesthetics and cultural practice."
tagline: "Fijian filmmaker"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1954-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.937509333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1506162/"
    handle:    "nm1506162"
sources:
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilsoni_Hereniko"
    title: "Vilsoni Hereniko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilsoni_Hereniko"
    title: "Vilsoni Hereniko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilsoni_Hereniko"
    title: "Vilsoni Hereniko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilsoni_Hereniko"
    title: "Vilsoni Hereniko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Херенико, Вильсони"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilsoni_Hereniko"
    title: "Vilsoni Hereniko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6163107"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1349042"
    title: "Vilsoni Hereniko"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump