Broadway Performance Hall - 6:00pm - Preceded by short film “AfterEarth” - As rising sea levels threaten the loss of their motherland in Hawai’i, the Philippines, China, and North America, four women take a stand to preserve the volcano, ocean, land, and air for future generations.
These ladies are tired of waiting! When religious fundamentalism comes to Tonga, the proud indigenous transgender women known as leitis refuse to quietly fade away. From the team that produced audience fave Kumu Hina (MGFF15). On sale now here.
The Society for Visual Anthropology’s Film & Media Festival screens work by students, professional anthropologists, and professional filmmakers at the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference.
Details TBA here.
A screening featuring personal appearances by director Dean Hamer and film star Joey Joleen Mataele. Quezon City International Pink Film Festival is a project of the Quezon City Pride Council in partnership with the Quezon City Government and The Philippine Initiative on LGBT Pride Advocacy Inc. It is a year long project that promotes awareness and education through film. It is the only LGBT Film Festival in the Philippines that envisions at making the country a hub for the biggest LGBT festival in Southeast Asia.
From the filmmakers of Kumu Hina (SDAFF ‘14), and co-produced by Kumu Hina (Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu) herself, LEITIS IN WAITING is a look at the fight for basic human rights in the Kingdom of Tonga. Event Details HERE.
Red Nation International Film Festival™ (RNIFF) The Authentic Voice of American Indian & Indigenous Cinema™ is dedicated to breaking the barrier of racism by successfully replacing American Indian stereotype with recognition, new vision, arts, culture and economic prosperity by placing American Indian Filmmakers at the forefront of the entertainment industry and to introduce American Indian Filmmakers to larger, global mainstream audiences while championing Native Women in Film & Television and giving voice and inspiring native youth with our dedicated program Native Youth Matter™ – If I Can See It I Can Be It.™
Join us before the film for a special afternoon tea social event. Joey Mataele from Leitis in Waiting will join us for a Skype Q&A after the film. Details HERE.
The Summit will hold its inaugural Film Series in Miami-Beach, featuring showings by filmmakers from the Miami-Florida area, the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond, highlighting the richness and diversity of independent filmmaking. The selected films broadly engage with the major themes of this year’s Summit, encouraging thoughtful conversations around borders and migration, ecological struggles, gender politics, and economic inequality.
This year's festival reflects stories of resilience–portraits of strength and action by people who are rising up, breaking new ground, and pushing their communities forward.
NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE - The Pasifika Film Fest (PFF) showcases the art of Pacific storytelling through film while also working to inspire Pasifika writers, directors and actors to explore links to their culture. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/264862130902003/
QUEENSLAND MULTICULTURAL CENTRE - The Pasifika Film Fest (PFF) showcases the art of Pacific storytelling through film while also working to inspire Pasifika writers, directors and actors to explore links to their culture.
SILO 2018 (Salon International de Livre Oceanien) will be held on Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September in Nouméa, at the Tjibaou Cultural Centre.
The screening of "Leitis in Waiting" will be followed by a community conversation with Ms. Gaëlle, director of Diversité Nouvelle-Calédonie, and artist and community activists Peter Sipeli.
Stay tuned for details about a series of screenings and community dialogue events in-development with the University of the South Pacific, UNDP, and other local, national, and international human rights organizations.
Sponsored by the USP Student Association and Pacific Youth Council
Samoa premiere of "Leitis in Waiting" at the 3rd Regional Conference for ILGA Oceania, the first time ever that ILGA will be featured in a Pacific Island nation.
The conference will unpack what it means to be fighting for Our Lands, One Ocean, Our Rights!
BKKSR is Bangkok’s first screening room to support independent films, pave the way for emerging filmmakers, and being a platform to promote cultural contents. Presenting a vibrant program of independent film and documentaries and retrospective classics, the BKKSR is a new hub for film enthusiasts and fans of international films. LEITIS IN WAITING screening details to-be-announced soon HERE.
A screening of "Leitis in Waiting" - under the French title "Joey and the Leitis" in a dynamic festival whose aim is to develop links between the artistic and cultural rebirth of the First Peoples and the cultural dynamism of a great metropolis, in a sustainable development perspective based on friendship among peoples, diversity of sources of expression as a collective treasure to be shared and through recognition of the specificity of First Nations and Inuit. Details HERE.
Featuring in-person appearances and Q&A with stars Joey Joleen Mataele, Leafa Mataele Wawryk, and Fatima Reynolds, and filmmakers Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson. Details HERE.
Details here.
Preceded by a cultural performance by Joey Mataele, Sedrick Vanisi, and members of UTOPIA San Francisco.
This collection of trans short films celebrates the diverse voices of the trans community. From Austria to Tonga, from France to the Philippines, witness global trans activities as they take a stand.
A special screening for the 150 delegates from the Pacific and other countries attending the 2018 Pacific Human Rights Conference organised by the Pacific Sexual and Gender Diversity Network (PSGDN) and its partner agencies including Pacific Community (SPC) Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT), Diva 4 Equality, Haus of Khameleon, Rainbow Pride Foundation, and the Youth Champs for Mental Health.
Tickets and more info HERE.
This film can be purchased as a Film + Forum Pass for our special discussion forum Where to from #METOO. For more information, please visit our Film + Forum page.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer, as well as Joey Mataele, the film’s main protagonist.
For tickets & more info click HERE.
Ethnografilm seeks to enhance our understanding of the social world through film. From the 3rd through the 7th of April 2018 in Paris, France, the festival featured over 100 works by documentary and academic filmmakers.