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Warriors in Transit

Papua New Guinean TV series or program

Warriors in Transit is a 1992[2] Papua New Guinea theatrical television series (or televised play), written and directed by William Takaku and Albert Toro.[3] It consists in eight episodes, lasting twenty-five minutes each.[3] It was the first ever "broadcast-length drama wholly conceived and produced by Papua New Guineans".[1] Its production cost approximately €125,000.[4]

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The series "depicts political duplicity and the disintegration of a family in the Port Moresby settlements". Its central characters are parents who attempt, unsuccessfully, to look after their sick child.[1] Takaku has stated that the parents' characters represent the Papua New Guinean government, while the child represents the nation.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Interview with Albert Toro", Nancy Sullivan, in George E. Marcus (ed.), Cultural Producers in Perilous States, University of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 0-226-50440-9, pp. 347–8
  2. [2]
    "Feature Film List: LIT 3626 Hawaii and the Pacific in Film", Hawai'i Pacific University
  3. [3]
    "Warriors in Transit: Theatre in Papua New Guinea", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 18 October 2000
  4. [4]
    "Melanesia report", UNESCO, September 1993, p. 26


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