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Title Foreign Correspondent: Family Matters
Published Australia : ABC, 2016
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Summary The last time filmmaker Bob Connolly was in PNG's Highlands he was caught up in one of the bloodiest and most destructive tribal wars in the region's recorded history. </br></br>Now, 25 years on, Connolly returns to the Highlands for Foreign Correspondent to catch up with key characters from the masterful trilogy of documentaries he made with his late partner Robin Anderson - First Contact (1983), Joe Leahy's Neighbours (1989) and Black Harvest (1992).</br></br>At the heart of it all is Joe Leahy, the son of an Aussie gold prospector who was the first European to make contact with the local Ganiga tribe, and a Highlands woman. As Connolly puts it: 'Western-oriented, mixed race coffee millionaire surrounded by tribal subsistence farmers - fertile ground for a clash of values.'</br></br>Joe Leahy had big dreams for his coffee plantations. So too did the Ganiga people who wanted to grow rich from them. That was until the coffee price suddenly tanked and a tribal war exploded, scenes dramatically captured in Black Harvest, the last film in the trilogy. </br></br>Fast forward to 2016. Coffee prices have recovered and a quarter century has passed. So by now, surely, war will be a distant memory, and Joe Leahy and the Ganiga finally will be reaping their shared riches? That is the rough scenario Bob Connolly hopes he will find as he drives into the Highlands to pick up with Joe Leahy and Ganiga leaders
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2016-09-13 at 21:33:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Coffee plantations.
Land tenure -- Social aspects.
Tribes -- Economic conditions.
Tribes -- Social conditions.
War and society.
Australia.
Papua New Guinea.
Form Streaming video
Author Connolly, Bob, reporter
Leahy, Jim, contributor
Leahy, Joe, contributor
Leahy, Rita, contributor
Pintabea, George, contributor
Thyme, Thomas, contributor