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2018 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

TAMA

Directed by Jared Flitcroft, Jack O'Donnell

Shorts Competition / New Zealand / 2017 / Coming of Age, Drama, Family, Pacific Islander, Social Issues / 9 mins / English, New Zealand Sign Language with English subtitles

Plays In:
Pasifikas

Tateuchi Democracy Forum @ JANM
Saturday | May 5, 2018 4:00 pm

Description

The result of a unique collaboration between deaf and hearing filmmakers, TAMA is about a young Maori deaf boy who is isolated within his family. He tries to perform the traditional Maori war dance, the Haka, silently.

Director's Bio

Jared Flitcroft is a deaf indigenous filmmaker from New Zealand. He was the first deaf person to graduate from the New Zealand Film School. Jared is the chairperson of the New Zealand Deaf Short Film Festival.

Jack O’Donnell has made a number of short films and documentaries. His first film, COPPER (2014) was selected for global film festivals including the LA Diversity Film Festival (2014) and the Rome CINEDEAF Film Festival (2015), among others.

Credits

Director: Jared Flitcroft, Jack O'Donnell
Producer: Ashleigh Flynn

Plays in

  1. Pasifikas

    Shorts Programs / 84 mins
    Aloha! Ki Ora! Talofa! Hafa adai! These shorts made by the First Peoples of the Pacific represent a broad spectrum of themes and genres that deal with love, loss, culture clashes and connections. These are films made by Pacific Islanders about Pacific Islanders. - Anderson Le

    In This Program: AFTEREARTH, CULTURAL COLLAGE, KA PIKO, LADY EVA, PRAISE SONG FOR OCEANIA, STRONG CULTURE, TAMA, WILDER PALMS, THE WORLD IN YOUR WINDOW

Dates & Times

Plays In:
Pasifikas

Tateuchi Democracy Forum @ JANM
Saturday | May 5, 2018 4:00 pm