Indie Lens Pop-Up is a film screening series that brings people together for community-driven conversations. Featured films are later broadcast on Independent Lens. PBS Hawai‘i and Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking are the local co-presenters of Indie Lens Pop-Up. Screenings are free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Coming up this season:

Served Like a Girl / By Lysa Heslov
Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 5:30-8:00 pm
PBS Hawai‘i, 315 Sand Island Access Road, Honolulu

Served Like a Girl provides a candid look at a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of homeless women veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffer from PTSD, sexual abuse, and other traumas. By entering into the “Ms. Veteran American” competition, these amazing ladies unexpectedly come full circle in a quest for healing and hope.

Past screenings from earlier this season:

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary / By John Scheinfeld
Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 5:30-8:00 pm
PBS Hawai‘i, 315 Sand Island Access Road, Honolulu

Set against the social, political and cultural landscape of the times, Chasing Trane brings saxophone great John Coltrane to life, as a man and an artist. The film is the definitive look at the boundary-shattering musician whose influence continues to this day.

I Am Not Your Negro / By Raoul Peck
Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 5:30-8:00 pm
PBS Hawai‘i, 315 Sand Island Access Road, Honolulu

One of the most acclaimed films of the year and an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson, and with a flood of rich archival material.

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities /
By Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams
Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 5:30-8:00 pm
PBS Hawai‘i, 315 Sand Island Access Road, Honolulu

Tell Them We Are Rising explores the pivotal role historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played over the course of 150 years in American history, culture, and identity. This film reveals the rich history of HBCUs and the power of higher education to transform lives and advance civil rights and equality in the face of injustice.

Dolores / By Peter Bratt
Friday, March 2, 2018, 5:30-8:00 pm
Women of Wonders Fest @ Honolulu Museum of Art, Doris Duke Theatre, 900 South Beretania Street, Honolulu

With intimate and unprecedented access, Peter Bratt’s Dolores tells the story of Dolores Huerta, among the most important, yet least-known, activists in American history. Co-founder of the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, she tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century.

Look & See: Wendell Berry’s Kentucky / By Laura Dunn
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 5:30-8:00 pm
VENUE CHANGE: Impact Hub Honolulu, 1050 Queen Street, Honolulu

Look & See: Wendell Berry’s Kentucky is a portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the mind’s eye of award-winning writer and farmer Wendell Berry, back home in his native Henry County, Kentucky.