By Joey Tau on PNG Edge

Canning Paradise was awarded the "Best in Festival" award from the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF).

Canning Paradise is a feature-length documentary about one of the world's most prized resources, and those who pay for it.

Decades of overfishing by the global tuna industry have now pushed the final frontiers to the waters of PNG.

Set in the north-eastern part of PNG, this film follows the struggle of indigenous tribes to protect their way of life, guarded by traditions dating back thousands of years.

They see their ancestral land taken away to make way for multinational corporations, in their quest to create the new tuna capital of the world or the first special economic zone in the country.

Destruction of traditional fishing grounds, loss of bio-diversity, alienation of land, displacement of entire villages, sweatshop factories, sex-trade for fish and endemic corruption in government are the daily routine for the clans living next to the tuna project.

Producer  Olivier Pollet said this great initiative was taking films about labour struggles to communities all around Canada.