Puʻuhonua: A Closer Look at Kimi Howl Lee’s Kamaʻāina
By Lyz Soto on October 19, 2020In July and August of 2020, we partnered with the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival for a series of events that centered Kimi Howl Lee’s short film Kamaʻāina: Child of the …
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An “Elsewhere” We Call Home
By Tatiana Kalaniopua Young, PhD on July 31, 2020Kamaʻāina: Child of the Land (2020), a short film by Kimi Howl Lee, centers on the story of a gender-queer teenage character named Mahina played by Malia Kamalani Soon. Mahina …
Read MoreHoMA: Eating Up Easter + Community Conversation: Regenerative Tourism And Restorative Economies In Hawaiʻi
By Rae Kuruhara on July 6, 2020From the Honolulu Museum of Art: Inspired by the film Eating Up Easter, which examines cultural preservation and the impacts of tourism in Rapa Nui, the Honolulu Museum of Art …
Read MoreHIFF @ Home Summer Fest
By Rae Kuruhara on July 6, 2020From the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival: Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-at-home policy, the HIFF Spring Showcase, which was supposed take place in April, was indefinitely postponed to a later …
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Love Letters to Community: New Worlds into Being
By Lyz Soto on April 10, 2020Dear Lovely You, This is a letter in speculation in a speculative time. This is to all of you struggling through this moment of distance, uncertainty, danger, and fear. I …
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