PBS Hawaiʻi Presents Shorts is an online-only series that explores stories about Hawaiʻi and the Pacific created by local filmmakers.
Air Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 12:00 AM
Follow a group of activists fighting to protect the coastline of Escambrón Beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from overdevelopment.
Air Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2025 12:00 AM
Watch as a community of elders gathers in the Calle Loiza district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for Friday night Karaoke, as the neighborhood around them rapidly transforms due to the forces of gentrification.
Air Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2025 12:00 AM
Follow Maekiaphan, a Taino woman from the U.S. Virgin Islands on her journey to reclaim her Taino heritage and to become the first woman Kasike (chief) of the Taino tribe.
Air Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2025 12:00 AM
Follow filmmaker Brian Muna as he seeks to reconnect with CHamoru, the language native to the people of Guam and elders in his family. In this search for self-identity, he examines his culturally American upbringing and the importance of passing on the language to his sons.
Air Date: Tue, Feb 25, 2025 12:00 AM
How did the waterways of Puʻuloa, the area now known as “Pearl Harbor” on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, transform from a lush and vibrant hub to a polluted industrial zone?
Air Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2025 12:00 AM
Examine the state of public schools in the U.S. Virgin Islands 7 years after back-to-back Category 5 Hurricanes made landfall.
Air Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2025 12:00 AM
Explore the debate around the unique legal status of American Samoa, a U.S. territory whose residents are not U.S. citizens, and as a result, retain Indigenous ownership over their land.
Air Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2025 12:00 PM
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Homegrown: A Part Of/Apart From, comprises eight documentary short films made by emerging filmmakers living in the U.S. territories, Hawai'i, and their diasporic communities.
Air Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2025 12:00 AM
Follow two Native Hawaiians living in the Pacific Northwest as they reflect on how the concept of ‘Aloha’ sustains them amidst distance, loss, and longing for their homeland.
Air Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 12:00 AM

For the first time on film, 80-year-old Hawai‘i civil rights pioneer and Filipina activist Amy Agbayani gives voice to her own history…

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