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Vilsoni Hereniko

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DirectorsBorn 1954 · age 71
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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.

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The Land Has Eyes2004
The Hanmaneak Su In A Routuman Wedding1989

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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.

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Directors
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Movie Director
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Born 1954 · age 71
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