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Schedule
Saturday, May 22 — 2:00 p.m.
(Same program Sunday, May 23, 12:00 p.m.)
Tisch Rm. 108 |
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Kava Kultcha
10 min., 2003, Hawai`i (USA)
Director: Leah Kihara / Producers: Leah Kihara & Leanne
Kang Ferrer / Writer: Misa Tupou.
Set in a post apocalyptic future, Kava Kultcha portrays
a colonizing world dominated by a global enforcement agency
(GEA) on a mission to abolish all countries, religions, languages,
and cultural practices in the name of global unification.
Facing this tyranny, members of a peaceful Polynesian resistance
group retreat to the underground and dare to practice their
culture of song and dance as well as their tradition of kava
drinking. One fateful night, the Global Enforcers aggressively
track them down seeking to eradicate them. Will it be the
end of the "kava kultcha?" |
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Kissing God
7 min., 2003, Hawai`i (USA)
Director-Producer: Ron Patricio.
This short film is a touching and gripping family drama
about the lessons that are taught by father to son, when
the bond is addiction. As Jack confesses his addiction to
his embarrassed son, Makena, a major event unfolds that will
forever change Makena's future. This drama inspired by the
filmmaker's life leaves the audience pondering the effects
that parents have on their children. |
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Bradajo: Da Beginning
8 min., 2003, Hawai`i (USA)
Director-Producer: Natalie Cross.
Born and raised on Kaua`i, Bradajo (Brother Joe) is a master
storyteller who relates his stories in Hawaiian Pidgin English.
This charming local classic, Da Beginning takes us on a spiritual
journey of self-discovery back to the source.
Sweet Samoa--6 min., 2003, (USA)
Director/Producer: Tomas Casas.
Urban New York cool meets Samoan fire in this experimental short that was inspired
by the director's encounter with a Samoan bartender at the legendary downtown
jazz hangout Sweet Basil. The resulting imagery is a cultural weave of iconography
and disparate lifestyles. Q&A to follow with filmmaker. |
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Sweet Samoa
6 min., 2003, (USA)
Director/Producer: Tomas
Casas.
Urban New York cool meets Samoan fire in this experimental
short that was inspired by the director's encounter with
a Samoan bartender at the legendary downtown
jazz hangout Sweet Basil. The resulting imagery is a cultural weave of iconography
and disparate lifestyles. Q&A to follow with filmmaker. |
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Dot's Death
20 min., 2002, (Aotearoa - NZ)
Director-Producer: Stan Wolfgramm
Teresa, a white
woman, has been married for six years to her Tongan husband,
Willie. They have a beautiful daughter
Luana,
and all seems well until Teresa receives a phone call.
Estranged from her mother since her marriage to Willie,
Teresa receives
news that her mother, Dot, is dying of cancer. Cultures
collide when Willie visits Dot and decides against his
wife's wishes
to bring her into their home to die. In this spiritual
tale of pain and transformation, Willie's Tongan roots
are as
determined as Dot's bigotry and Teresa's morality. |
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