Tag: Pacific island
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Reconnecting with Hawaiian Culture in ‘Finding ‘Ohana’
A family adventure film that features Hawaiian culture with a representative director and a diverse cast.
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Is Disney Finally Learning?
Disney has a glaring and, up until recently, unaddressed issue that spans nearly its entire lifetime – an absence of diversity.
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You are my Tomorrow: “Vai”
The 2019 film, Vai, takes us through eight stories across the islands of Oceania. The settings are unbelievably beautiful, the cast is beautiful, the languages are beautiful, and the stories are beautiful…but heartbreaking.
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A child’s guide to raising himself: “Boy”
Taika Waititi writes, directs and co-stars in ‘Boy’, set in 1984 New Zealand. The film does just what Waititi dreamed of — it gave a great coming-of-age story to Māori people without making a story of the Māori people as an exotic other.