Joe Leahy’s Neighbours
The son of an Australian explorer (appearing in First Contact) and a native Papua New Guinean woman, Joe Leahy runs a prosperous coffee plantation and lives in a Western life style. He owes his social status partly to his skill in profiting from his immediate neighbours, the Ganiga, who, fifty years after the whites landed, still depend on their traditional tribal system, but are also tempted by material well-being and consumer society. An observation of Joe Leahy’s sometimes comical dealings with his neighbours, the film is simultaneously an excentric and explosive description of the problem of colonialism.
Etudes d’économie et de sociologie. Recherches et publications en économie. Collabore avec Bob Connolly à partir de 1979.
Avec lui, elle a réalisé : First Contact, 1983 • Joe Leahy’s Neighbours, 1988 • Black Harvest, 1991 (tous trois ont obtenu le Grand Prix du Cinéma du Réel) • Rats in the Ranks, 1996 • Facing the Music, 2000.
Robin Anderson est décédée en 2001.
Arundel Productions
Documentary Educational Resources (D.E.R.)
Ray Thomas; Bob Connolly
Robin Anderson
Bob Connolly