Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 4, 1 April 1992 — Humanities grant awarded to lnstitute for Cinema Studies [ARTICLE]

Humanities grant awarded to lnstitute for Cinema Studies

A $2,500 planning grant was awarded by the Hawai'i Committee for the Humanities to the Institute for Cinema Studies. The institute is to produce a script for a video on the history and contemporary life of Papakolea as a reflection of Hawaiian societv.

The film will examine Hawaiian homesteads in the context of cultural diversity, problems of assimilation, and changes in Hawaiian values using archival footage, historical photographs and oral history interviews with community elders. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit to Hawai'i in 1934 is of particular interest.

Rubellite Kawena Johnson is the principal humanities scholar. She teaches Hawaiian language and culture at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. The project director is Edgy Lee. Consultants who will help develop the script are anthropologists Marion Kelly and Stephen Boggs and historian Saul Landau. The total of grants given to all loeal projects by HCH is $42,213.