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Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.
This year’s shorts program boldly takes from you Hawai’i, Aotearoa (New Zealand), the Marquesas Islands and back to Carson, CA; each story gently connected to each other with a nuanced thread of migration and diaspora.
In this program
INHERITANCE
Directed by: Erin Lau | 19 mins
A struggling nature photographer is forced to confront the pain his family has carried for generations.
FIND WHERE I BELONG
Directed by: Kahu KAIHA | 14 mins
Elvis, a homeless teenager must find courage to leave the street life in order to return to his birth island.
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
Directed by: Angelique Kalani Axelrode | 8 mins
Blending narrative and movement based storytelling, two sisters overcome tension in their relationship; inspired by the mo‘olelo of Hi‘iakaikapoliopele.
KE KAHEA: AN INVITATION INTO SACRED SPACE
Directed by: Justyn Ah Chong | 19 mins
A group of women heed the calling to make kapa for unearthed ancestral remains.
THE VOYAGER’S LEGACY
Directed by: Bailey Poching | 11 mins
In 1970’s Auckland New Zealand, an immigrant family endeavors to give their story a fairytale ending.
FOLLOW ME HOME
Directed by: Derek Felipe, Fa'avae Fa'avae, Michael Gray | 7 mins
When a young Pacific Islander boy, in search for his identity, grows up in a neighborhood clothed by gang violence and the tragic loss of his brother, finds peace, passion and purpose in a career in fashion.
E MĀLAMA PONO, WILLY BOY
Directed by: Scott W. Kekama Amona | 18 mins
A Native Hawaiian police officer is forced to choose between supporting his family, upholding the law, and doing what is morally right…or PONO.
