KAMAʻĀINA (CHILD OF THE LAND)

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.

A queer teenager navigates life on the streets in Oahu, until she eventually finds refuge at the Puʻuhonua o Waiʻanae –– Hawaiʻi’s largest organized homeless encampment.

CREDITS:
Director, Writer: Kimi Howl Lee
Executive Producer: Kimi Howl Lee, Conor May, Natalé Olsen
Producer: Anastasia Solovieva, Sabina Friedman-Seitz
Director of Photography: Scott Ray
Editor: Evita Yuepu Zhou
Composer: Michael Alemania
Cast: Malia Kamalani Soon

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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.