Hawaiian filmmaker Anne Keala Kelly’s newly released documentary Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai`i was awarded a special jury prize at this week’s Festival International Du Film Documentaire Oceanien (FIFO) in Tahiti....
...Jurors were moved by its raw and passionate portrayal of the struggles of today’s native Hawaiians....
...For many Tahitian and other visiting Pacific island viewers, Kelly’s film enabled them to understand, for the first time, the realities faced by the Hawaiian people in their own homeland, and the Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) resistance to the desecration and obliteration of their culture by the US military, real estate development, and tourism pressures....
...The film makes a case that through the force of US laws, economy, militarism, and real estate speculation, the Hawaiian people are facing systematic, intentional obliteration.
The film features interviews with Hawaiian activists and academics, whose comments serve to further clarify the significance and direness of the ongoing erosion of Hawaiian culture....
...Noho Hewa was more than six years in production, and in 2008 won the Hawai`i International Film Festival’s Award For Best Documentary.
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