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2018 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Pasifikas

Shorts Programs / 84 mins

Pasifikas

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

Description

Filmmakers in attendance.

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

Co-presented with our Community Partners: Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC),  Project ALOFA (Another Loving Opportunity For All),  and TeAda Productions

 

In This Program

  1. AFTEREARTH

    Jess X. Snow / Shorts Competition / USA / 2017 / Documentary, Environmental, Family, LGBTQIA+, Pacific Islander, Social Issues / 13 mins
    Four women take a stand to preserve the volcano, ocean, land, and air for future generations.

  2. CULTURAL COLLAGE

    'Inoke Hafoka / USA / 2018 / Documentary, Family, Pacific Islander, Women / 6 mins
    As a painter who is Samoan and white, Tali not only illustrates identity and culture in her paintings, but also weaves the importance of culture into her children's lives.

  3. KA PIKO

    Bryson Chun / Shorts Competition / USA / 2017 / Drama, Pacific Islander / 10 mins
    When his girlfriend dies during childbirth, a Native Hawaiian man with a tenuous cultural connection must perform a birth ritual with his girlfriend's overbearing father.

  4. LADY EVA

    Dean Hamer, Joe WIlson, Kumu Hina Wong-Kalu / Shorts Competition / Tonga / 2017 / Documentary, LGBTQIA+, Pacific Islander / 11 mins
    Meet the irrepressible Eva Baron, a Tongan transgender woman and beauty-pageant contestant.

  5. PRAISE SONG FOR OCEANIA

    Justyn Ah Chong / Shorts Competition / USA / 2017 / Environmental, Experimental, Pacific Islander, Social Issues / 5 mins
    PRAISE SONG FOR OCEANIA is a video poem about the ecologies, histories, politics, economies, and the cultures of the Ocean.

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    STRONG CULTURE

    Jarryd O'Keefe / Shorts Competition / Australia, Vanuatu / 2017 / Documentary, Pacific Islander, Spiritual, Student / 3 mins
    A warrior chief in a small village in Vanuatu prepares for a traditional war dance ceremony that honours the ancestral culture of his people.

  7. TAMA

    Jared Flitcroft, Jack O'Donnell / Shorts Competition / New Zealand / 2017 / Coming of Age, Drama, Family, Pacific Islander, Social Issues / 9 mins
    Ever seen the haka in silence?

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    WILDER PALMS

    Bradley Tangonan / Shorts Competition / USA / 2017 / Drama, Pacific Islander, Social Issues, Women / 12 mins
    On the verge of being separated from her mother, seven-year-old Rin retreats to the world of her imagination.

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    THE WORLD IN YOUR WINDOW

    Zoe McIntosh / Shorts Competition / New Zealand / 2016 / Drama / 15 mins
    One boy struggles to free his dad from grief in a caravan park, until an accidental friendship with a transsexual.

Dates & Times

Pasifikas

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