Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 26, Number 12, 1 December 2009 — ʻColonel Kupauʻ film showing scheduled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ʻColonel Kupauʻ film showing scheduled

Homealani: Tlie Story of Colonel 01iver H. Kupau, a biographical movie by Native Hawaiian filmmaker Ann Marie Kirk, will be screened at the Princess Ruth Ke'elikōlani Auditorium of the Kamehameha Schools Kapālama Campus on Sunday, Dec. 13 from 4 to 6 p.m. Kirk is the granddaugh-

ter of Kupau, who died before she was born. She was inspired to do the movie after vintage footage of her tūtū surfaced while she was a student at UCLA film school. Kirk interviewed family members and colleagues of Colonel Kupau to pieee together memories of a man with an unusual life story. Born in 1899 in Hau'ula, O'ahu, Kupau rose through the ranks of the U.S. military to become one of the highest ranking officers of Native Hawaiian ancestry during the mid-20th century, according to Kirk's research. Kirk, previously won a national award for her documentary film portrait of 90-year old Ruth Kaholoa'a of Waipi'o Valley. She will be present for a Q&A session following the Kapālama campus screening. For information, homealani® gmail.com.

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Col. Oliver Kupau is the subject of a film airing Dec. 1 3 at Kamehameha Schools-Kapālama. - Photo: Courtesy of Ann Marie Kirk