Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 12, Number 8, 1 August 1995 — Pacific Island Images Film Festival Aug. 3-6 [ARTICLE]

Pacific Island Images Film Festival Aug. 3-6

Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) will present its second annual Pacific Island lmages Film Festival Aug. 3-6, with programs on O'ahu, Maui, Moloka'i, and Kaua'i, and with a speeial program Aug. 18 on the island of Hawai'i. The festival's purposes are to showcase films and videos produced and/or directed by and about indigenous Pacifīc Islanders and to bring these programs to Pacific Islander communities and encourage them to tell their own stories to the world. Showings are all $4 and include: • "Storytellers of the Pacific," the premiere of PIC's international documentary series collaboration; Honolulu, Aug. 3; Kaunakakai, Aug. 3; Līhu'e, Aug. 6; Kalihi, Aug. 4; Hāna, Aug. 4; Waimānalo, Aug. 5; Hilo, Aug. 18.

• "Onee Were Warriors," a devastaling portrait of urban Auckland Maori life; Nānākuli, Aug. 3; Kahuiui, Aug. 4; Nānākuli, Aug. 5; • "Koro's Hat," a Maori drama; Lā'ie, Aug. 3; Honolulu, Aug. 4; • "Fakapangai: in the Circle of Sovereignty" and "Aka Maro Kura," short documentaries recording the investiture of chiefly honors in Rarotongan and Tongan societies; Lā'ie, Aug. 3; • "Tangata/Tagata," a seminal documenlary series by Samoan filmmaker Poumau Papali'i; Kaunakakai, Aug. 3; Hāna, Aug. 4; Honolulu, Aug. 6; Līhu'e, Aug. 6; • "The Visitation," a Maori drama; Honolulu, Aug. 4; Hāna, Aug. 4; For a complete schedule eall PIC at 591-0059.