A film production with New Zealand connections is setting up on the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville, where locals are hoping for an economic boost.
Staff and cast for the filming of Mister Pip, based on the novel by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones, have begun arriving on Bougainville.
PNG's Post Courier newspaper reports some Bougainvilleans have been cast in main roles, and that filming locally will help promote tourism.
The production is led by New Zealander Andrew Adamson, who directed Shrek, and producer Robin Scholes.
Mister Pip is set in 1991 during the decade-long Bougainville conflict. The novel won it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker.
