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Talofa, Hafa Adai, and Aloha,
Included in this month's newsletter:
- In Football We Trust 2015 Sundance Premiere - by Tony Vainuku & Erika Cohn
- Indie All the Way - My 2015 Sundance Take-Aways - by Ciara Lacy, Out of State
- Instead of Screening Your Film - by David Grubin, Language Matters with Bob Holman
- Independent Film Listening Tour - Chicago - March
- Kumu Hina and Winning Girl at CAAMFest 2015, San Francisco - March 12-22
- Standing on Sacred Ground National Broadcast Premiere - April
- Producers' Post: Announcements, Deadlines, Trainings
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| | Tony Vainuku speaks to audience at the 2015 Sundance premiere of In Football We Trust |
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Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn, the director and producer of PIC-funded program In Football We Trust share their experiences premiering their film at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Continue reading to hear about Tony's reaction to being the first Tongan director to have a film in Sundance and getting a personal phone call from Samoan actor/athlete Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson prior to the premiere, and Erika's participation in a Women in Film panel and meeting Robert Redford, founder of the Sundance Institute.
Read more.
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| | Sundance programmer Bird Runningwater with Ciara Lacy and other Time Warner Fellows |
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After a starry-eyed, jam-packed few days as a Sundance Institute Time Warner Fellow, I'm excited to find myself back home in Hawaiʻi, ready to integrate all the amazing intel I've gathered into my filmmaking toolkit. And, I'm eager to share. One thing I've learned from directing my PIC-funded documentary, Out of State, over the last few years is that it takes a lot of nerdy research and plenty of friends to make an indie film happen. This year's Sundance Film Festival was the perfect reinforcer of this idea.
Click here to read all of Hawaiian producer Ciara Lacy's inspiring take-aways from this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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| | Liko Puha and Kauʻi Paralto perform at the Exploratorium, San Francisco |
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A filmmaker - especially anyone with a release slated for television with its enormous number of anonymous viewers - likes to screen for a live audience, where the pulse in the room is palpable. But with Language Matters with Bob Holman, my two-hour film about endangered languages, Bob and I took a different tack. We put together a series of live performances of poetry, song, and dance offered by speakers of endangered languages, woven together with excerpts from the film. At each venue, Bob and I took turns introducing the performers and the film clips, elaborating on the making of the film and the subject of languages in danger of extinction. Our screenings became celebrations.
Click here to read producer David Grubin's recounting of the successful events held nationwide to support the national broadcast premiere of his PIC-funded program Language Matters with Bob Holman. |
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This series of events is designed to ignite conversations about the importance of independent documentary films and how to strengthen audience and community engagement. Next event: Chicago, date in March TBA. Learn more.
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Festival audience favorites Kumu Hina and Winning Girl, both from Hawai'i and PIC-funded, will screen at the 2015 CAAMFest, March 12-22 in San Francisco. Learn more.
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This four-part documentary series, including episode Islands of Sanctuary, filmed on Kahoʻolawe, Hawaiʻi, will be available on public television stations nationwide beginning in April. Watch trailer.
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 The Producers' Post, a regular update for producers, is available on our website. Included in the latest update:
- Announcements
- Events
- Festival Deadlines
- Funding Deadlines
- Job Opportunities
- Resources
- Trainings
Read the most recent post here!
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The mission of Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) is to support, advance, and develop Pacific Island media content and talent that results in a deeper understanding of Pacific Island history, culture, and contemporary challenges.
Established in Honolulu in 1991 as a national nonprofit media arts corporation, PIC is a member of the National Minority Consortia, which collectively addresses the need for programming that reflects America's growing ethnic and cultural diversity. Primary funding for PIC and the Consortia is provided through an annual grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Visit piccom.org for additional information.
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