STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS

This film is only available to viewers in the United States from September 25, 2020 at 12pm PT to October 31, 2020 at 11:59pm PT. Click here to watch the film on Eventive.

STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS follows Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists as they stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope. The film follows the stories of each of the women through a crucial journey of self and collective empowerment.

CREDITS:
Director, Producer, Director of Photography: Jalena Keane-Lee
Producer: Amber Espinosa-Jones, Pua Case
Editor: Diana Diroy

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Pacific Cinewaves

From a young Samoan woman stricken with bleeding stigmata, to a documentary portrait on Native Hawaiian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, to an animated tale that reveals the hidden history of four healing stones on Waikiki Beach; these pieces are cinematic love letters to the living culture of the Pacific.