SYDNEY (AP) " 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 tale of tribal love was shot on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu, in the indigenous Nauvhal language, with an amateur cast of villagers. "It was just fabulous news and a little bit hard to believe," Dean said in an interview on Wednesday, shortly after receiving word of the film's Oscar nod. The film's roots began 10 years ago, when Butler sent Dean to Tanna to work on a documentary. While the directors had come to them with the idea for the film, the chiefs said, the tribe now considered "Tanna" their own.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 25, 2017 03:31 UTC