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First Contact is a film of genre Documentary released in USA on 7 december 1983

First Contact (1983)

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Released in USA 7 december 1983
Length 58minutes
Rating76% 3.812193.812193.812193.812193.81219

First Contact is a 1983 documentary by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson which recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an uninhabited area. It is based on the book of the same name by the same authors. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. The film includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary footage of the island's terrain. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It won Best Feature Documentary at the 1983 Australian Film Institute Awards.

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En 1930, trois chercheurs d'or australiens, se rendent en Nouvelle-Guinée et y découvrent une population, les Ganiga, n'ayant jamais eu de contact avec la civilisation occidentale. Près de cinquante ans plus tard, Bob Connolly et Robin Anderson, deux documentaristes, rencontrent le fils du pionnier Michael Leahy, qui leur remet les bobines des films documentant cette première rencontre. Les deux cinéastes, soumettent à leur tour aux Papous ayant eux-mêmes vécut l’arrivée de « l’homme blanc », les images de ce premier face à face asymétrique posant déjà les bases de la colonisation à venir…

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