PACIFIC SUPERHEROES

Just a reminder PACIFIC SUPERHEROES, 3 weeks until the deadline for submissions to ImagineNATIVE ’09, up in Canada. Another great indigenous initiative and film festival to enter and support!!! Creative First Nations peoples worldwide!!! Mauri Ora famz

10th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – FILM AND VIDEO
DEADLINE: June 1, 2009
www.imagineNATIVE.org

‘Be a part of imagineNATIVE’s 10th anniversary year! The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media. Each fall, the festival presents a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from around the globe. The festival’s screenings, parties, panel discussions, and cultural events attract and connect filmmakers, media artists, programmers, buyers, and industry professionals. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the world’s Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media.

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Here we go PACIFIC SUPERHEROES another wicked indigenous film festival to support and be apart of. One Love to our First Nations of the three America’s, spreading luv and support! p.s this is held in London.

‘The call for submissions to the Native Spirit Film and Video festival of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas 2008. The Native Spirit Festival 2008 will be accepting short and feature length film submissions to this years festival, until the 31st of August 2008. Films may be documentary or fiction and all films produced by indigenous filmmakers and productions which feature aspects of indigenous life, history, culture, traditions, art etc. are eligible for submission.

For more details please refer to our website’ http://www.nativespiritfestival.com

Here we go Pacific Superheroes the PACIFIC ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL in Hawaii Nei, O for Orsum!!! Chur thanks Louisa for the heads up, 275 special .

‘The first annual Pacific Islands Film Festival at the Honolulu Design Center’s Cupola Theatre will showcase feature films, documentaries, and student short films from throughout the Pacific.

The Film Festival will take place from 6 – 9:15 p.m. nightly Friday, July 11th until Sunday, July 13th. The event is free and open to the public.

Throughout the three day festival, filmwork spanning the length and breadth of the Pacific will illustrate the diversity of Pacific island cultures. Organizers and filmmakers hope to engage audiences with thought-provoking films that offer insights into the lives of Pacific Islanders. Music, dance, and an after-film discussion are also part of the festival.

The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona college, in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawai`i and Pacific Islanders in Communications, presents Re-Presenting the Pacific: First Pacific Islands Film Festival’

11-13 July 2008
Honolulu Design Center, Cupola Theatre
All screenings are FREE and open to the public.
Friday, July 11

6:00 – 6:45 p.m.

Performances of music and dance

Manoa Voices, University of Hawai`i

Hula dancer, Ku`ulei Hazelwood
7:00 – 9:45 p.m.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Merata Mita, filmmaker and assistant professor at the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai`i

Followed by screening of:

Hawaiian Footage from the PBI archive

16mm color footage of Oahu in the late 1930s filmed by a U.S. Navy aviator. (8 mins)

FEATURE: Naming Number 2 (93 mins)
Saturday, July 12

9:00 – 11:30 a.m.

FEATURE: Morning Comes So Soon (85 mins)

followed by after-film discussion
noon–2:30 p.m.

DOCUMENTARY:

Le Afi Ua Mua: The Fire is Burning (57 mins)

Time and Tide (59 mins)
3:00-5:30 p.m.

DOCUMENTARY:

Tanim: A Tribal Struggle for Power (51 mins)

Breaking Bows and Arrows (52 mins)
6:00-7:45 p.m.

FEATURE: Samoan Wedding (97 mins)
8:15-9:30 p.m.

CELEBRITY NIGHT: Cliff Curtis (Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider), perhaps the bestknown actor from the Pacific: His life, his films . . . Cliff Curtis, in person
Sunday, July 13
12:30 -2:30 p.m.

DOCUMENTARY:

Made in Taiwan (45 mins)

Guarding the Family Silver (59 mins)
3:00-4:15 p.m.

DOCUMENTARY: The New Oceania: Albert

Wendt, writer (73 mins)
4:45-6:45 p.m.

STUDENTS’ SHORT FILMS:

These seven films from 2007 represent the rich and diverse range of Hawai`i based storytelling, from the students of the Academy for Creative Media,

University of Hawai`i. Followed by Q&A with filmmakers.
7:15-9:15 p.m.

DOCUMENTARY: Keepers of the Flame:

The Cultural Legacy of Three Hawaiian Women (59 mins)

Preceded by music and introduction by Eddie Kamae, Hawai`i’s Living Treasure
For detailed film schedule, visit here