PIC Programs
PIC serves the Pacific Islander and American public by presenting programs that illuminate the Pacific Islander experience. PIC works with the public television system on national, regional, and local levels to ensure the broadcast of culturally-authentic works that educate, entertain, and enlighten.
PIC acquires and packages completed works for public television broadcast. Recent acquisitions include Black Grace: From Cannon's Creek to Jacob’s Pillow, Polynesian Power: Islanders in Pro Football, Keepers of the Flame: The Legacy of Three Hawaiian Women, Riding the Wave: The Whale Rider Story, Time and Tide, and Whale Rider.
PIC also serves as executive producer on selected collaborative projects, including Dances of Life, Holo Mai Pele, One Voice, Skin Stories, and Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? These projects provide important mentoring and training opportunities for emerging talent.
PROGRAMS
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An unflinching look at the ironic and tragic fate of Tuvalu, a remote island country
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The story of Hawaiian students who lead their classmates in song.
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Three indomitable women helped ignite the Hawaiian renaissance.
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Follows a Pacific Islander modern dance troupe to a premiere dance festival.
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Keola Beamer, master of the slack key guitar.
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A film poem on Hawaiian women.
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A young Samoan boy guards and protects his siblings.
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Polynesian dance speaks to the past, present, and future.
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Hawaiian values told through the Kamaka family's business of making 'ukuleles.
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A young girl in Fiji fights for justice.
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The struggle between the scientific and Native Hawaiian communities.
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The ascent of Polynesians in professional football.
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