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To view all PBS Short film Festival films click here. For all locally made films see below.
Local Featured Films
Ala Moana Boys
About the film
“Ala Moana Boys” follows five friends caught in the middle of a scandal in 1930’s Oahu. Based on true events during the Thalia Massie trials, this short drama recounts a small slice of the story from the point of view of Joe Kahahawai, Horace Ida, Henry Chang, Ben Ahakuelo and David Takai. (read more)
Presented by Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC)
Ka Ho’i
About the film
A Hawaiian War Veteran grapples with the struggles of growing older, the nightmares of his past, and the even scarier thought of being forgotten as the world around him seems to leave him in the dust. (read more)
Presented by Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC)
My Chinatown, with Aloha
About the film
A fourth-generation Chinese American, filmmaker Kimberlee Bassford explores her family’s relationship to Honolulu’s Chinatown. She also examines the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1899-1900 bubonic plague in Hawai‘i, highlighting the ways the two public health crises transformed the iconic neighborhood then and now.(read more)
Presented by WORLD CHANNEL