Pan-Oceanian is the proposed unity of Oceania-inhabiting people or a concept that collectively classifies several aspects of Oceanian society.
The earlier usages of the term were largely concerned with issues surrounding entomology and other branches of zoology and its derivatives based in Oceania.
[1] For example, it categorized the taxonomy or botany of both the onshore and offshore of the Australasia and the nearby Asia-Pacific regions.
[2] In subsequent usages, the term is idealized in a manner that connotes a separate continent and the cultural and societal consequences that entails.
Subsequently some of these individuals have pushed towards a more inclusive representation of filmmakers and film scholars.