Pacific Pulse

Season Three

Season Three

February 2021

We're pleased to announce our line-up of films for Season 3 of Pacific Pulse, featuring Reel Wāhine of Hawai’i— premiering in March to celebrate Women’s History Month.

 

These films will be available year-round and will complement our broadcast series,

Pacific Heartbeat.

 

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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi - Laura Margulies

Animator Laura Margulies creates by hand using oil paints, watercolors and gouache to create lush moving paintings in motion. From her commissioned works for Sundance and PBS...

Filmmaker(s)
Vera Zambonelli
Category
Shorts
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi - Marlene Booth

Director and producer Marlene Booth had a thirty year filmmaking career in Cambridge, MA before relocating to Honolulu in 2000 and turning her eye toward Hawai‘i...

Filmmaker(s)
Kimberlee Keʻala Bassford
Category
Shorts
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi - Myrna Kamae

For half a century Myrna Kamae & Eddie Kamae were partners in life, music and film. Myrna produced and Eddie directed ten films about Hawaiian music, language and...

Filmmaker(s)
Shirley Thompson
Category
Shorts
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi - Erin Lau

Writer and director Erin Lau creates emotional narrative films about families and relationships featuring strong women protagonists, including The Moon and the Night and...

Filmmaker(s)
Renea Veneri Stewart
Category
Shorts
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The Moon and The Night

Set in rural Hawaiʻi, a Native Hawaiian teenage girl must confront her father after he enters her beloved pet in a dogfight.

Filmmaker(s)
Erin Lau
Category
Shorts
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Standing Above the Clouds

Standing Above the Clouds​ is a story of inter-generational women activists, who call themselves Ku Kia'i Mauna, or guardians of the mountain. The film follows three sets...

Filmmaker(s)
Jalena Keane-Lee
Amber Espinosa-Jones
Category
Short Film
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Hae Hawai'i

A man steals the Hawaiian flag in hopes of raising it when the kingdom is restored.   

Filmmaker(s)
Ty Sanga
Vince Keala Lucero
Caleb Lucero
Category
Shorts
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Mālama Waialeʻe

Waialeʻe, on north shore Oahu, was once a plentiful land supporting a large native population. But through colonization & development, Waialee suffered, used as a site to...

Filmmaker(s)
Joe Wilson
Nick Kawelakai Farrant
Category
Digital Short
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Mahalo Covid-19

In this short documentary, Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Matt Yamashita, injects himself into a story about the impacts of Covid-19, both on his small island community and in...

Filmmaker(s)
Matt Yamashita
Category
Shorts
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How to Catch a Taotaomona

After getting into a fight with the class bully Jeff, Raph wanders through the jungles behind his house.  He encounters a human figure that resembles the taotaomona, an...

Filmmaker(s)
Neil Tinkham
Category
Short Film
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Distant Learning

In the face of a global travel shutdown, a Rapanui father living in Minnesota tries to maintain ties to his culture by teaching it to his children.

Filmmaker(s)
Sergio Mata'u Rapu
Elena GK Rapu
Category
Shorts
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Ta Hasso I Manaina

Like many organizations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kutturan Chamoru Foundation’s operations have been greatly reduced. To maintain its mission, KCF leaders...

Filmmaker(s)
Neil Tinkham
Category
Short Film
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A Niu Way

The coconut palm is the tree of life!

Filmmaker(s)
Vilsoni Hereniko
Category
Shorts

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