A three-year Pacific climate research and storytelling documentary and journalism project has contributed to a disruption and renewal theme in Pacific Island Countries development. Focused initially on Fiji, the project has involved three pairs of postgraduate students engaging with climate crisis challenges. Responding originally to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016, the Pacific Media Centre embarked on the Bearing Witness journalism project by sending two postgraduate students to Viti Levu to document and report on the impact of climate change (Robie & Chand, 2017). Their main component was a multimedia report on Daku village in the Rewa River delta area. This was followed in 2017 with a series of reports leading to a multimedia package on the relocation of the remote inland village of Tukuraki (Robie, 2018). The third episode focused far more strongly on documentary with reports on waka navigation and climate change, the ‘ghost village’ of Vunidogoloa and a ‘homecoming’ short feature about the Banaban people of Rabi and the impact on them caused by climate change. The project explores Friere’s notions of ‘critical consciousness’ as they might relate to teaching documentary-making and also draw on the concept of talanoa journalism.

为期三年的太平洋气候研究以及讲故事的纪录片和新闻项目为太平洋岛国的发展注入了新的活力。该项目最初以斐济为重点，吸引了三对应对气候危机挑战的研究生。太平洋媒体中心最初是为应对2016年强烈热带气旋温斯顿在斐济造成的破坏和悲剧而发起的，它通过派遣两名研究生到维提岛（Viti Levu）记录和报告气候变化的影响，开始了``轴承见证''新闻项目（Robie和钱德（Chand，2017）。他们的主要内容是关于雷瓦河三角洲地区达库村的多媒体报道。随后在2017年发布了一系列报告，这些报告导致了关于偏远内陆村庄Tukuraki搬迁的多媒体软件包（Robie，2018年）。第三集更加集中于纪录片，报道了有关瓦卡航行和气候变化的报道，沃尼多哥洛亚的“鬼村”以及关于拉比的巴纳班人及其气候变化对他们的影响的“归乡”短篇小说。该项目探讨了弗里尔的“批判意识”概念，因为它们可能与教学纪录片制作有关，并借鉴了“概念意识”的概念。塔拉诺阿新闻业。