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Tonight Sukundimi Walks Before Me screens at Darwin International Film Festival Darwin International Film Fest The film ...
17/09/2026

Tonight Sukundimi Walks Before Me screens at Darwin International Film Festival Darwin International Film Fest

The film will be followed by a Q&A with SaveTheSepik’s Manu Peni and Sukundimi Walks Before Me producer Kerry Warkia, and hosted by Jayden O'Neill. We can’t wait to share our film with NT audiences. All the details below. Don’t miss it!

📅 Thursday 17 September | 7pm
📍 Deckchair Cinema
🎟️ diff.net.au

We just know we’ll be walking away from this conversation feeling inspired and empowered! 💛Born from the heartbeat of th...
17/09/2026

We just know we’ll be walking away from this conversation feeling inspired and empowered! 💛

Born from the heartbeat of the mighty Sepik River, Sukundimi Walks Before Me carries the living spirit, identity, people and sacred ancestral waters of Papua New Guinea to the world. 🇵🇬🌏

It is a soul-stirring cinematic testament to the power of Indigenous-led resistance.

And there’s three opportunities to see it in Naarm/Melbourne this week - but this is your last one 📆➡️ Sunday 20 September, 5PM, Thornbury Picture House.

Following the film screening we’ll be joined by Mary-Louise O’Callaghan, Manu Peni from , Katja Phutaraksa Neef from , artist and researcher Lisa Hilli Lisa Hilli, CEO of 350.org.au Te Raukura O'Connell Rapira Te Raukua O’Connell Rapira and School for Social Change’s Anisa Rogers for a conversation on what development means and a future beyond extractivism.

It’s going to be a special afternoon and we invite you to come along, hear the call of the Sukundimi and join the movement to protect the Sepik. 📣

Get your tickets now via link in bio

We’ve got such an exciting conversation lined up for Sunday afternoon following our second Naarm screening of Sukundimi ...
16/09/2026

We’ve got such an exciting conversation lined up for Sunday afternoon following our second Naarm screening of Sukundimi Walks Before me at SunTheatre ! We’d love to see you there. 🌱

Charity Mosienyane (Regen Melbourne Regen Melbourne), Katja Phutaraksa Neef Katja Phutaraksa Neef (Jubilee Australia Jubilee Australia), Dr Cristy Clark (Climate Justice Lab - Monash Law) and Jacynta Fa’amau Jacynta L Fa'amau (350.org Pacific 350 Pacific ) are joining Project Sepik’s Manu Peni in conversation to explore Indigenous-led resistance, environmental stewardship and international solidarity.

The movement to protect the Sepik is growing stronger with communities locally and internationally raising their voices. Come hear the call of the Sukundimi this Sunday and stand with the Sepik. 📣

📍 Sunday 20 September, 2:30PM, Sun Yarraville, Melbourne SunTheatre

Link to tickets in bio

Celebrating Papua New Guinea’s 51st Independence Day. 🇵🇬 🇵🇬🇵🇬Today we celebrate the great country of PNG, the sovereignt...
15/09/2026

Celebrating Papua New Guinea’s 51st Independence Day. 🇵🇬 🇵🇬🇵🇬

Today we celebrate the great country of PNG, the sovereignty of the Papua New Guinean people and its incredible culture - home to more than 800 Indigenous languages and over 1000 cultural groups! We also reflect on and celebrate PNG’s remarkable 50,000 of Indigenous achievement, sustainable development and independence prior to European colonisation. To all our Papua New Guinean friends, and our friends along the Sepik River, we wish you well today.

The Sepik River is one of the world’s last great rivers.Stretching 1,126km, it winds in serpentine fashion like the Amaz...
15/09/2026

The Sepik River is one of the world’s last great rivers.

Stretching 1,126km, it winds in serpentine fashion like the Amazon, down from mountains and timeless cloud forests, through tropical rainforests and mangroves, in one of the most biodiverse and culturally-diverse areas on the planet.

For Sepik communities, the land and river is not an environment, it’s not a resource for a mining giant to extract. It is their home.

But the Sepik is facing one of its greatest threats in history: a huge copper and gold mine near the River’s headwaters.The proposed Frieda River copper and gold mine would be one of the largest mining projects ever developed in Papua New Guinea. Communities and experts have warned of the risks of pollution, forest destruction, species loss, displacement of villages, and lasting impacts that could be felt for generations.

And the people of the Sepik are taking action. Communities are raising their voices locally and internationally, pursuing advocacy through the OECD, the United Nations and the Save the Sepik campaign to defend their river, culture and way of life. The movement to protect the Sepik is alive.

What would you do to protect your home?

14/09/2026

The decisions concerning development on Indigenous lands cannot be made without the people whose lands, rivers, cultures and futures will carry the consequences.

For the people of the Sepik, FPIC is not a box to tick. It is the right of communities to say YES or NO.. Freely and independently, before decisions are made, and with full access to information.

Standing here at Australia’s Parliament House, I remember the great Melanesians who walked before me paving way for political independance and their foresight in seeing the darkness of neon lights, those who dared to challenge the narrative, I bring this message from PNG, Australian political and corporate engagement in our region must respect Indigenous peoples, customary landowners and their right to determine development on their own terms.

No consent should be assumed. No community voice should be bypassed. No development should come at the cost of Indigenous sovereignty.

Australia’s legislators have an important role to play in ensuring that Australian policy, investment and corporate conduct in the Pacific uphold these principles.

Respect FPIC. Respect Indigenous governance. Respect the right of our people to decide their own future and chart their own course..

Announcing our speakers - Cinema Nova, September 19 📣What a line up for our first Naarm screening! Moderated by none oth...
14/09/2026

Announcing our speakers - Cinema Nova, September 19 📣

What a line up for our first Naarm screening! Moderated by none other than Agnes Tupou Agnes Tupou, host of ABC Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat, a broadcaster and journalist who has covered Pacific stories for a decade, and a proud Tongan/Samoan woman. Just last week, Agnes interviewed Project Sepik Director Manu Peni on Pacific Beat (check out the link in our bio!).

Agnes is joined by some seriously inspiring special guests, including Lesley Wengembo a 29-year-old Australia-based contemporary Indigenous artist from PNG (follow his work here ➡️ Lesley Wengembo), Sam Szoke-Burke, a Senior Lawyer in Human Rights Law Centre’s Corporate Accountability and Climate Justice team, Nat Lowrey Nat Lowrey, Co Chair of AidWatch and a grassroots activist of more than 25 years, Research and Advocacy Specialist Katja Phutaraksa Neef, and SaveTheSepik’s own Emmanuel ‘Manu’ Peni, a human rights defender and environmental activist whose ancestral village is Korogu in East Sepik.

Join us for this enriching Q&A following the film, exploring culture and identity for future generations, climate justice, corporate accountability, and how art can be a catalyst for discussion and change.

Sukundimi Walks Before Me is at Cinema Nova THIS SATURDAY, 4:40PM. Don’t miss it!

Link to tickets in bio

“We stand on place. We stand on connections. We stand on relationships and kinship. These are our currency.”Project Sepi...
13/09/2026

“We stand on place. We stand on connections. We stand on relationships and kinship. These are our currency.”

Project Sepik founder Manu Peni spoke powerfully at PNG 51st Independence Day celebrations in Yarraville Gardens yesterday.

Thanks to PNG Australian Association of Victoria for a wonderful event.

Next stop Canberra for our PNG Independence Day screening of Sukundimi Walls Before Me at Dendy Canberra, and then returning to Naarm for Cinema Nova on September 19, and back in Yarraville at SunTheatre and Thornbury Picture House on Sunday 20th September. Link to tickets in bio.

Announcing our speakers, Dendy Canberra, September 16 📣We’re excited to share that Mijica Rose Lus Mijica Rose, an award...
12/09/2026

Announcing our speakers, Dendy Canberra, September 16 📣

We’re excited to share that Mijica Rose Lus Mijica Rose, an award-winning Papua New Guinea-Australian youth advocate, community leader, and 2024 ACT Young Woman of the Year, founder of the and State Coordinator for ACT will be moderating our screening at Dendy Canberra on September 16 on

Special guest speakers include Dr Theresa Meki, a Pacific Research Fellow with the Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, at the Australian National University, and Dr Ian Fry, who was the first UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change, and who has worked for the Tuvalu government for over 24 years and was appointed as their Ambassador for Climate Change and Environment in 2015.

Also joining us is Emily Price, Director of Pacific Mining Program at Jubilee Australia, a research centre that engages in research and advocacy to promote economic justice for communities in the Asia-Pacific region, and of course, Emmanuel ‘Manu’ Peni, producer of Sukundimi Walks Before Me, and director of Project Sepik, a non-profit environmental organisation working to protect the Sepik River.

Come for the film, and stay for a fascinating discussion on sustainable future, corporate accountability and what it means to belong to a river and protect your home. We invite you to stand with the Sepik and join us for a special night. Book tickets via link in bio.

Missed out on seeing Sukundimi Walks Before Me at our sold out Melbourne International Film Festival screenings last mon...
11/09/2026

Missed out on seeing Sukundimi Walks Before Me at our sold out Melbourne International Film Festival screenings last month?

We're excited to annouce you have another chance to see this powerful doco in Naarm on the big screen at three special event screenings!

📍 Saturday 19 September, 4:40pm Cinema Nova, Carlton
📍 Sunday 20 September, 2:30PM, Sun Theatre, Yarraville
📍 Sunday 20 September, 5PM, Thornbury Picture House, Thornbury

Don’t miss these Q&A screenings with our special guest Project Sepik director Manu Peni, who will talk about the film and campaign to save the Sepik from a gold-and-copper mine.

Book now via link in comments

Presented in collaboration with Save the Sepik, Jubilee Australia and 350.org Australia

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