On 10/20/22, we had an advanced screening of MOVE ME, a film about Kelsey Peterson, an athlete and dancer that suffered a life-altering spinal cord injury. Now, she seeks to answer the question, “Who am I now?” as she grapples with the ebb and flow of hope and acceptance.

Hazing is a widespread, far-reaching practice fueled by tradition, secrecy, groupthink, power, and the desire to belong in fraternities and sororities on college campuses across the U.S. Filmmaker Byron Hurt embarks on a deeply personal journey to understand the underground rituals of hazing, revealing the abuse and the lengths college students will go to fit in.

Three Indigenous students experience the highs and lows of adolescence while attending one of the most remote high schools in the United States. Living in the uniquely beautiful but isolated Diné community within the Navajo Nation reservation, they navigate life as teenagers and dream of a glittering future.

In 2014, Claude Motley and his family were visiting their former hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when 15-year-old Nathan King attempted to carjack his rented Dodge Charger. In the process, Nathan shot Claude in the face. When Claude Got Shot chronicles five years in Claude’s physical and mental recovery journey.

Try Harder! takes an in-depth look at San Francisco's Lowell High, a prestigious public high school with a majority Asian American student body. The film follows high school seniors as the pressure intensifies to impress admissions officers at elite universities and asks, "How do these kids define their identities beyond acceptance letters?"

Join us for an Advanced Virtual Screening of INDEPENDENT LENS: TRY HARDER! on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 2:00pm.

Enjoy this post-screening discussion of Try Harder! panel discussion moderated by President and CEO Ron Mizutani, with panelists:Trisha Roy, Baldwin High School educator and HIKI NŌ teacher; Mina Suzuki, Baldwin High School junior and HIKI NŌ student; and Dr. Mestisa Gass, PSYD, Program Director, Mental Health America of Hawai’i.

Six brilliant researchers from around the world—a brain scientist, a plant behaviorist, a healer, a philosophy professor, a psychedelics scientist, and a Buddhist monk—take you on a mind-blowing quest to investigate this seemingly unsolvable mystery.

The story of one warmhearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer.

In a male-dominated media landscape, the women journalists of India's all-female Khabar Lahariya ("News Wave") newspaper risk it all, including their own safety, to cover the country's political, social, and local news from a women-powered perspective. Nominated for an Academy Award.