{"id":1570,"date":"2015-09-22T12:31:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T12:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2015-09-25T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T12:35:43","slug":"west-papua-film-wins-best-documentary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"West Papua film wins \u2018Best Documentary\u2019 award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"small upper\"><strong>SEPTEMBER 22, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Undercover West Papua documentary,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenbirdofparadise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forgotten Bird of Paradise<\/a>, has been awarded \u2018Best Short Documentary\u2019 at the 2015 Davis International Film Festival in California, USA.\u00a0More than 1,100 films were submitted to the festival from over\u00a080 countries.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the award, screenings of the film will take place in Davis on Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall, and also\u00a0in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 23, and 24.<\/p>\n<p>Since its release in 2009,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Forgotten Bird of Paradise<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>has been shown at dozens of film festivals around the world, providing a rare and moving insight into the ongoing struggle for freedom being waged by the West Papuan people living under Indonesian colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p>Watch trailer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forgotten Bird of Paradise (trailer) - undercover West Papua documentary | Dancing Turtle Films\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5jpx3Nj9AAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freewestpapua.org\/2015\/09\/22\/west-papua-film-wins-best-documentary-award\/\">http:\/\/freewestpapua.org\/2015\/09\/22\/west-papua-film-wins-best-documentary-award\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPTEMBER 22, 2015 Undercover West Papua documentary,\u00a0Forgotten Bird of Paradise, has been awarded \u2018Best Short Documentary\u2019 at the 2015 Davis International Film Festival in California, USA.\u00a0More than 1,100 films were submitted to the festival from over\u00a080 countries. As part of the award, screenings of the film will take place in Davis on Saturday, Sept. 26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-west-papua-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}