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Sunday, May 23 – 7:00 p.m.

Cantor Film Center #200

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Tama Waipara--Live Music

(Part of Closing Night Film)
A graduate of the prestigious Manhattan School of Music with a master's degree in music performance, New Zealand native Tama Waipara is a multitalented singer/songwriter who plays several instruments, including clarinet and guitar.

Red Hibiscus

8 min., 2003, Hawai`i (USA)

Director: Robert Pennybacker.
Feeding on the local police's dead-file cases like a five-year-old with a birthday cake, the Honolulu private eye in this film noir gumshoes through Chinatown's sunny-side streets and bus-lane watering holes to close the book on the fate of a 1950s songstress. The HD stock of the film isn't the only thing black and white in this hard-boiled short as our detective stumbles on a solution that islanders have known in their hearts for decades. Q&A to follow with filmmaker.

Hawai`i On Film: Selections from Bishop Museum Archives

50 min., 1989 Hawai`i (USA)

Presented by DeSoto Brown.
The Archives department of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu holds Hawai`i's largest collection of historic moving images. This compendium of clips from the Museum's collection covers Hawaiian subjects from surfing and hula to transportation and industry, dating from the 1920s up to the 1970s.
Live narration by DeSoto Brown, Collection Manager of Bishop Museum Archives, will provide unique insights into this entertaining and nostalgic look at Hawai`i's past.

Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre Performance-- (Part of Closing Night Film)

Kahurangi (Cloak from Heaven) is New Zealand's only full-time Maori dance theater of professional caliber to maintain a consistent presence in North America for the past twelve years. A performance by Kahurangi brings to life the ihi or life force of the Maori, through the songs and dances that are part of the history and fabric of Maori life. The performers bridge the past and the present with genealogical chants that trace family history back to the beginning of time; martial arts techniques that span generations to demonstrate the lifestyle of a warrior race; and powerful songs they perform with personal conviction and pride in being Maori.