In this multi-grantee episode, Hawaiʻi Rising speaks with three organizations uplifting their communities through filmmaking.
First, we speak with Pua Case from Mauna Kea Education & Awareness and filmmaker Jalena Keane-Lee about their feature-length documentary Standing Above the Clouds, which premiered last year. Building on an earlier short film with the same name released in 2020, the feature-length documentary follows three families of Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists standing to protect sacred Mauna Kea from the construction of the massive Thirty Meter Telescope.
Next, we revisit our 2022 conversation with Vera Zambonelli, the founder of Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking. Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking is a longtime HPF grantee partner committed to advancing gender equity in filmmaking and advocating for women to tell their stories through film with an intersectional lens. HWF’s Reel Camps are filmmaking camps for girls and femme-identifying youth.
Finally, we turn to the important behind-the-scenes work of archiving film footage with the initiative Hoʻomau Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina. In this conversation recorded in 2023, we speak with Aunty Joan Lander of Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina and Emma Broderick from Puʻuhonua Society about this effort to catalog and archive over 6000 video tapes of footage shot by documentary organization Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina.
To learn more about these hui, listen to our full episodes with them:
23. Mauna Kea Education and Awareness: Standing Every Day for the Mauna
32. Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking: Getting Reel about Social Change
48. Mauna Kea Education and Awareness: A Pillar for the Lāhui
56. Puʻuhonua Society: Hoʻomau Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina
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