
Calling all Film Fanatics, Francophones, and Francophiles! We are extremely happy to announce that San Diego French Film Festival is back in business and going virtual from June 1st to June 6th, 2021. The theme is Francophone Voices in honor of the many different cultures behind the French language.
Details will be coming soon!
#frenchfilmfestival #sdfff
The world’s first film directed, written, and produced by a native Marquesan, Heretu Tetahiotupa. It’s Christophe Cordier’s first film as well. Witness how a remote Southern Pacific islander people rediscover and celebrate their nearly lost identity by uncovering the cultural puzzles left behind through patutiki, the art of Marquesan tattoo,
The stories etched on their Polynesian skin document their history. Unlike other Polynesian societies, Marquesans created an artistic symbolism by which to tell their people’s stories, their way of seeing the world and human kind’s place in it. In 1920, 97% of their population was decimated, only 2000 survived. With tattoo declared illegal by church and state, the last of the “black-skinned” elders found unique ways to guard their dying people’s precious history.
- Year2018
- Runtime55 minutes
- LanguageFrench, Reo
- CountryFrench Polynesia
- NoteETHNOLOGICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- DirectorChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- ScreenwriterChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- ProducerChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- Executive ProducerMichael Alezrah
- Co-ProducerSydelia Guirao France TV
- FilmmakerLes Studios Hashtag Eka Eka Productions L’Association Patutiki with France TV
- CastInterviewees (in order of appearance) Narrators (Marquesan and French) TIA IHOPU LUDO PUHETINI TEIKI HUUKENA PASCAL PATI TUTANA TETUANUI-PETERS VOHI HEITAA MIKARA HIKUTINI Villagers (in alphabetical order) AUGUSTE AH-SCHA TUATAI AH-SCHA TIETOUA AKA HIRIATA BONNO ANNABELLA ELLIS-HUUKENA PIERRE GENDRON LAURE HATUUKU CASSILDA HEIMATAKUA KEHUATUA HOKAHUMANO TAKIHIA HOKAHUMANO TEIKIMOEATUA HUUKENA VEHINEKEUATUA HUUKENA- LINAGE MATIKI KAUTAI PERINA KOHUEINUI LIONEL LE CORRE JULIEN MOTAHU KANIVE OHOTOUA TETUAIARIA KAIHA AHITIRI TEIKITUTOUA EDGAR TETAHIOTUPA TOTI TEIKIEHUUPOKO IOPUTONA HIKUTINI MATIA PAVAOUAU KEVIN OTTO ALEXIS PAHUATINI JOHANNA ALEXIS PAHUATINI AHUURA PAPAI HOMAI PAUTEHEA TEIKIKAIHEI PAUTU MARIE-LOUISE PUHETINI TEVAI RAVIER TAPETA SALMON MARIE-ROSALIE TAATA ANTOINE TAVITA TEMAROHOA TAVITA RACHEL TEIKIHAA THOMAS TEIKIHAA KIMI TEIKITEETINI KIHA TEIKITOHE TEAKI TEIKITOHE TEPOEA NETI TEMANUPAEURA PIERRE TEIKITOHE HERETU TETAHIOTUPA Dancers (in alphabetical order) MARIE-YOLINDA BANGELINA GABRIEL BARSINAS TEHIA EPETAHUI VAIHIKI EPETAHUI TEOTURO FALCHETTO OLIVIER FIU STEVENS GENDRON AUTINI HAITI TEMEHEA HAITI ESPERANCE HUUKENA TUPEA PAUTU TEANI POU CYRILLE TAATA YOAN TAUPOTINI HOPUATA TEIKITEETINI HUEIKI TEIKITEETINI HEIRANI TEIKITOHE REVAHEI TEIKIUNUATUA JAMES TEKOHUOTETUA MELODIE TEKOHUOTETUA OUMATI TEKOHUOTETUA UHIMAI TETO TIFANNY TUTEINA CAST
- CinematographerChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- EditorChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- AnimatorLucid Dream
- Production DesignPita Hokahumano Moetai Huioutu Teiki Oeatua Huukena Ronald Tihoni Sicard Tristan
- Sound DesignKami Asgar, 424 Post Christophe Hantzen Robert Chen Teddy Salas
- MusicChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
Calling all Film Fanatics, Francophones, and Francophiles! We are extremely happy to announce that San Diego French Film Festival is back in business and going virtual from June 1st to June 6th, 2021. The theme is Francophone Voices in honor of the many different cultures behind the French language.
Details will be coming soon!
#frenchfilmfestival #sdfff
The world’s first film directed, written, and produced by a native Marquesan, Heretu Tetahiotupa. It’s Christophe Cordier’s first film as well. Witness how a remote Southern Pacific islander people rediscover and celebrate their nearly lost identity by uncovering the cultural puzzles left behind through patutiki, the art of Marquesan tattoo,
The stories etched on their Polynesian skin document their history. Unlike other Polynesian societies, Marquesans created an artistic symbolism by which to tell their people’s stories, their way of seeing the world and human kind’s place in it. In 1920, 97% of their population was decimated, only 2000 survived. With tattoo declared illegal by church and state, the last of the “black-skinned” elders found unique ways to guard their dying people’s precious history.
- Year2018
- Runtime55 minutes
- LanguageFrench, Reo
- CountryFrench Polynesia
- NoteETHNOLOGICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- DirectorChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- ScreenwriterChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- ProducerChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- Executive ProducerMichael Alezrah
- Co-ProducerSydelia Guirao France TV
- FilmmakerLes Studios Hashtag Eka Eka Productions L’Association Patutiki with France TV
- CastInterviewees (in order of appearance) Narrators (Marquesan and French) TIA IHOPU LUDO PUHETINI TEIKI HUUKENA PASCAL PATI TUTANA TETUANUI-PETERS VOHI HEITAA MIKARA HIKUTINI Villagers (in alphabetical order) AUGUSTE AH-SCHA TUATAI AH-SCHA TIETOUA AKA HIRIATA BONNO ANNABELLA ELLIS-HUUKENA PIERRE GENDRON LAURE HATUUKU CASSILDA HEIMATAKUA KEHUATUA HOKAHUMANO TAKIHIA HOKAHUMANO TEIKIMOEATUA HUUKENA VEHINEKEUATUA HUUKENA- LINAGE MATIKI KAUTAI PERINA KOHUEINUI LIONEL LE CORRE JULIEN MOTAHU KANIVE OHOTOUA TETUAIARIA KAIHA AHITIRI TEIKITUTOUA EDGAR TETAHIOTUPA TOTI TEIKIEHUUPOKO IOPUTONA HIKUTINI MATIA PAVAOUAU KEVIN OTTO ALEXIS PAHUATINI JOHANNA ALEXIS PAHUATINI AHUURA PAPAI HOMAI PAUTEHEA TEIKIKAIHEI PAUTU MARIE-LOUISE PUHETINI TEVAI RAVIER TAPETA SALMON MARIE-ROSALIE TAATA ANTOINE TAVITA TEMAROHOA TAVITA RACHEL TEIKIHAA THOMAS TEIKIHAA KIMI TEIKITEETINI KIHA TEIKITOHE TEAKI TEIKITOHE TEPOEA NETI TEMANUPAEURA PIERRE TEIKITOHE HERETU TETAHIOTUPA Dancers (in alphabetical order) MARIE-YOLINDA BANGELINA GABRIEL BARSINAS TEHIA EPETAHUI VAIHIKI EPETAHUI TEOTURO FALCHETTO OLIVIER FIU STEVENS GENDRON AUTINI HAITI TEMEHEA HAITI ESPERANCE HUUKENA TUPEA PAUTU TEANI POU CYRILLE TAATA YOAN TAUPOTINI HOPUATA TEIKITEETINI HUEIKI TEIKITEETINI HEIRANI TEIKITOHE REVAHEI TEIKIUNUATUA JAMES TEKOHUOTETUA MELODIE TEKOHUOTETUA OUMATI TEKOHUOTETUA UHIMAI TETO TIFANNY TUTEINA CAST
- CinematographerChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- EditorChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa
- AnimatorLucid Dream
- Production DesignPita Hokahumano Moetai Huioutu Teiki Oeatua Huukena Ronald Tihoni Sicard Tristan
- Sound DesignKami Asgar, 424 Post Christophe Hantzen Robert Chen Teddy Salas
- MusicChristophe Cordier & Heretu Tetahiotupa