This article focuses on the making of a documentary film on the cultural revival within the ‪ ‪Mā’ohi‪ ‪ Protestant Church in French Polynesia. ‪ Pain ou coco. Moorea et les deux traditions (Bread or Coconut. ‪Moorea and the Two Traditions‪ ‪) shows the various responses to this revival, generating an opposition between “traditional” and “cultural” local churches. Through the genealogy of the project, the examination of the practical conditions of filming and the reactions that followed the broadcasting of the documentary, I analyze the methodological and reflexivity issues at stakes in the filming approach.‪