BY JORDAHL GEMO Madang Province is a 50-minute flight away from Port Moresby. It’s a great tourist destination for travelers as well as having a great location to film movies and documentaries. With World War 2 history, the local culture and its geography, wrapped together with a bow as a present for filmmakers to get the best location footage.
You have the mainland, the mountains, the rivers, the war relics and the islands. Each with something captivating to offer for the camera lens. There is a village that I have been to, along the North Coast Road of Madang Province called Sugahr.
Located in the Sumgilbar Local Level Government, it is home to some of the most beautiful and scenic coast-line from the movie ‘Robinson Crusoe’. I came across that movie as a child and little did I know that most of those islands and coast-line scenes were shot along the beautiful crystal-clear waters of the North Coast of Madang Province. The film ‘Robinson Crusoe’ was based on a novel by Deniel Defoe and was about a ship wreck somewhere in the Caribbean that left Robinson Crusoe stranded on an island.
Released in 1997, the film was directed by Rod Hardy and George Miller and stared Pierce Brosnan and Papua New Guineas very own William Takaku. I spent almost six weeks in Sugahr Village working there for a project called P4CD with UNICEF and the Madang Country Women’s Association. In my six weeks stay at the village, I took the opportunity to walk along the coast line and appreciate.
