LOS ANGELES -- The film "Tanna" is named for the South Pacific island where the story takes place. It's the first film ever shot in the archipelago country of Vanuatu, north of New Zealand. It was ...

Hard to believe in this day and age that a culture such as the Yakel exist. The Yakel are one of the tribes on the volcanic island of Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago — about a thousand miles east of ...

Lightyear Entertainment has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to “Tanna,” an Australian/Vanuatu co-production set and filmed in one of the world’s last tribal societies. The “Romeo and ...

“Tanna” tells the oldest kind of story there is: that of forbidden love. Deep in the jungle of Tanna Island, in the Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, two smitten young villagers defy tribal ...

It's a tale of love and tragedy which some have called a Vanuatu version of Romeo and Juliet. But Tanna, which this week was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is no ...

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SYDNEY — The premiere of “Tanna,” Australia’s first-ever Oscar nominee for a foreign language film, was as far from Hollywood glamor as one can get. The guests gathered not in an opulent theater, but ...

And rather than a British director escorting Gulpilil from Arnhem Land, two Australian directors, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, introduced the Yakel tribe from the Vanuatu island of Tanna to the ...

COWLITZ INDIAN RESERVATION — Some people’s lives move along a predictable and tidy timeline. Cowlitz tribal elder Tanna Engdahl views her personal path as the sort of zigzagging, indirect course ...

There’s something thrilling about a movie that introduces us to a corner of the world we never knew existed. “Tanna” is that kind of film. It was shot on the remote South Pacific island that gives the ...

This image released by Lightyear Entertainment shows a scene from the film, "Tanna." The film was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. The 89th Academy ...