Marie Wawa is a ni-Vanuatu actress and villager who starred in the 2015 Australian-Vanuatuan film , '' Tanna '' . The film , which was the first to be shot entirely in Vanuatu , won two major prizes at the 2015 Venice Film Festival and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017 . Wawa appears in the lead role opposite Mungau Dain as two star-crossed lovers
89th Academy Awards
89th Academy Awards
Marie Wawa