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Kumu Kahua Theatre First Friday Event - Maoli Arts Month
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Type: Special Event
Date: Friday - 5/6/2011
Time: 6-9pm
Location:
Kumu Kahua Theatre
46 Merchant St. at Bethel Street
Honolulu, HI 96813

Contact: Harry Wong
536-422
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Kumu Kahua theatre HOLDS
FILM FESTIVAL FOR MAOLI ARTS MONTH

WHAT: MAMo at Kumu Kahua: First Friday Maoli Film Festival
WHERE: Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street, at Bethel Street
WHEN: Friday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Doors open 6 p.m.
HOW MUCH: $10, per seating
INFO: 536-4441, www.maoliartsmonth.org

Kumu Kahua Theatre, dedicated to producing works by Hawai‘i writers and about Hawai‘i's culture, joins MAMo (Maoli Arts Month) festivities for the first time with a one-night film festival showcasing five short films by Hawai‘i directors.

ìFor May’s First Friday, we wanted to do something to honor MAMo and that would fit with their theme and our mission,î says theater board member Mark Kalahele, who organized the event in two weeks in collaboration with Vince Keala Lucero of Co Creative Studios and with support from MAMo and the Hawai‘i film community. ìFilm is a natural extension of theater, and we’re excited to screen these six strong works. We’re also grateful to the directors and producers who generously lent their films to Kumu Kahua for this fundraiser.î

Six films, including two official Sundance Film Festival selections, will be shown in two screenings. Highlights include Ty Sanga’s Stones, which in January became the first all-Hawaiian language film to screen at Sundance, and Papa Mau, Anthony Na‘alehu’s moving documentary about Micronesian navigator Mau Pialug. Papa Mau sold out at last year’s Hawaii International Film Festival.

Beer and wine will be available for purchase on the theater’s open-air lanai throughout the evening.

Tickets can be reserved in advance by calling the Kumu Kahua Theatre box office at 536-4441, Mondays to Fridays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

Seating 1: 6:30-8 p.m.

Chief, directed by Brett Wagner, 20 mins.
A fallen Samoan chief, a tragic death, and a tsunami are part of this visual fever dream of identity in 21^st-century Polynesia. An official selection at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chief also took the HIFF Audience Award that year.
See the trailer. http://www.chief-movie.com/

Piko, directed by Puhipau, 2010, 55 mins.
In 2007, indigenous artists from around the world convened on Hawai‘i Island for Piko: Gathering of Indigenous Visual Artists. It was the fifth such gathering, and the first time it ever took place in Hawai‘i. Puhipau captured the creatively rich event on film.

Stones, directed by Ty Sanga, 2010, 20 mins.
O‘ahu filmmaker Ty Sanga’s Hawaiian-language debut took him to the Sundance Film Festival this year. Fueled by Hawaiian legends, Stones is set in ancient Hawai‘i. A forlorn woman living in isolation with her husband—members of the Mü, who only come out at night—meets a child and contemplates whether to bring her into a mystical world.

Seating 2: 8:30-10 p.m.

Blue Tarp City, directed by Henry Mochida, 2009, 14 mins.
Mochida’s hard-hitting documentary looks at the houseless population along the Wai‘anae coast—a portrait of disempowerment and community passion in paradise.
See the trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astgqQnWibw

Lychee Thieves, directed by Kathleen Man, 2010, 29 mins.
O‘ahu-born filmmaker Kathleen Man, who is an associate professor of film at Vassar College, explores the humorous, and sometimes contentious, interactions among the culturally and ethnically diverse people of Hawai’i in her award-winning short film. Man is also a co-producer for the upcoming film Grassroots, starring Jason Biggs. The cinematography is by another O‘ahu filmmaker—University of Hawai‘i assistant professor of film Anne Misawa, who picked up an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Treeless Mountain in 2010.
See the trailer: http://lycheethieves.com/Watch/Watch.html

Papa Mau, directed by Na‘alehu Anthony, 2010, 57 mins.
Anthony goes back to the beginnings of Höküle‘a in this sprawling documentary about Mau Pialug, the Micronesian navigator who taught Nainoa Thompson everything he knows about forging a nautical path by the stars. Revelations about Höküle‘a’s maiden voyage are riveting and poignant—revealing Pialug as a focused taskmaster. In 2007, Anthony, who himself is a Höküle‘a captain, and his crew filmed the delivery of a double-hulled canoe—a gift from the Polynesian Voyaging Society—to an ailing Pialug in Satawal Atoll. Editor Lisa Altieri skillfully weaves the footage with archival material to tell an important story of sharing, preserving traditions and modern Hawaiian history.

About Kumu Kahua
Kumu Kahua productions are made possible with support from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i, and the National Endowment for the Arts; The Annenberg Foundation; Paid for in part by the taxpayers of the City & County of Honolulu; the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons.

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