Evangelia Papoutsaki MA Leeds, PhD Cardiff, MRSNZ

Part I and II of a feature made by students of Communication Arts Department at Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea 2006.

"This film, with part one, is the greatest documentary on PNG I have ever seen, and I have seen dozens. The others were slick professional competent and totally destructive. They all focused on PNGs problems,violence witchcraft corruption exploitation etc etc, until you think, how is life possible in such a country...and most insidious of all,,how degraded the people must be. Maybe those film makers meant well, but they offered no solutions, no possibility of hope. But this film, both parts, is redemptive liberating, it is like watching Pather Panchali or Tokyo Story or Kurosawa's Prince Myshkin. I do not know who is more marvelous...the students or the Greek goddess...nice to know she swears in class. Maybe women will save the earth,This is a great feminist film,,it ought to be shown at festivals, it ought to be seen more widely. This film isn't dated . It can be shown 20 years from now,It ought at least to be shown to all those interested in VSO. There is a mystery about this film, like the Eleusian Mysteries,,a strange fecundity of human feeling, maybe this white mary really is Demeter...strange that she should work at a university called Divine Word, but then Hildegard of Bingen said we are all feathers on the breath of God, Shiva Naipaul wrote about the forgotten countries of the earth, sadly PNG is one of those, but it ought not to be,I have a feeling the students in this film will one day make a great feature film about PNG, maybe touching briefly on white outsiders like Malinowski or Mead or Errol Flynn so as to appeal to a wider audience. If I can help let me know Maybe no one will ever read this, but I would love to know how these students are doing, and whether Dr Papoutsaki, the white mary, the Greek goddess the feather on the breath of God...ever returned to PNG"  - Prof. Michael Boylan