I Am Not Your Negro

  Free, public screening of I Am Not Your Negro Tuesday, November 15, 2017, 5:30 – 8:00 pm PBS Hawaiʻi, 315 Sand Island Access Road, Honolulu A part of Indie Lens Pop-Up – Presented by PBS Hawai‘i and Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking   In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing […]

Free Screening of Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

  Free, public screening of Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 5:30 – 8:00 pm PBS Hawaiʻi, 315 Sand Island Access Road, Honolulu A part of Indie Lens Pop-Up – Presented by PBS Hawai‘i and Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking   Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary is the first film in the […]

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In Football We Trust

Sat., May 27, 9:30 pm

  This insightful and moving documentary transports viewers deep inside the tightly- knit and complex Polynesian community in Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the chief sources for the NFL’s influx of Pacific Islander players. Shot over a four-year period with unprecedented access, the film follows four young Polynesian men striving to overcome gang violence […]

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The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

Mon., May 8, 10:00 pm

  In the United States, there are over 2 million people in prison, up from only 300,000 40 years ago. Yet for most Americans, prisons have never felt more distant or more out of sight. A cinematic journey through a series of seemingly ordinary American landscapes, this film reveals the hidden world of the modern […]

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Best of Enemies

Mon., Oct. 3, 9:00 pm

  In 1968, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. changed TV news forever with their explosive political debates. Live and unscripted, conservative Buckley and leftist Vidal riveted viewers as a new era in contentious public discourse was born.