MISTER PIP

Logline: Set against the warring conflict in the province of Bougainville in Papa New Guinea, story follows 13-year-old Matilda Laimo and her mother, Dolores, as they are unified with the rest of their village in their efforts for survival. Amid the chaos, Mr. Watts, the only white local, offers to fill in as the children’s schoolteacher and teaches from Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.”