LILIU
Directed by Jeremiah Tauamiti- Pacific Cinewaves
- New Zealand, Samoa
- Drama, Family, Human Rights, International, Pacific Islander, Social Issues
- English, Samoan
- Subtitled
- 2018
- 17 mins
- Los Angeles premiere
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.
In colonial Samoa post World War I, an ambitious court interpreter risks everything when a wrongfully imprisoned Chief fights to get back to her stranded grandchildren.
CREDITS:
Director, Writer: Jeremiah Tauamiti
Producer: Ngaire Fuata
Cast: Ana Tuisila, Vito Vito, Peter Hayden
Director Of Photography: Tim Flower
Editor: Chris Davis Peter Roberts
Composer: Opeloge Ah Sam
Plays in
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.