Interview with Bonny Lanny, a West Papuan filmmaker

My name is Bonny Lanny

I joined Papuan Voices Wamena

Ealier, I made film in my hometown in Wamena

I made video as song clip, Christian songs

Some indigenous songs in 2014

Actually I made my first film on 2011 more like video clip.

But my first documentary video only started when I joined Papuan Voices

About video, documentary video, from Papuan Voices Wamena

My first video was about a report for Forum Masyarakat Jayawijaya the issue was about the denoucing of the

creation of military building in Wamena.

In which I also involved in the movement

I also did photo documentation, shoot demontrations,

and all of my friends activities,

I wrapped it all in a video report

From the beginning I made film earlier without any training,

I just made it spontaneous, acted by my own plan

I made it just like that putting this and put words in that picture

After I joined Papuan Voices, and started to understand

the steps like we need to to create a script first to make a film and all sort of techniques

For people outside to understand, we are in here, there is a delay of information and technology for us here, it's slow

So in this kind of situation, we need to do it step by step, slowly

If we want to make the change quckly, it become more hard

Now, we have so many papuan children study outside this island

But very few who study on music, or film