HAPA Film Screening + Talk Story: This is the Way We Rise
Join us on Aug. 19th @ 6 PM HST for an event you won't want to miss!
ABOUT THE FILM
Filmmaker Ciara Lacy documents Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, a Kanaka Maoli wahine poet, activist and academic, and her continued work towards justice for Hawaiʻi’s native population.
ABOUT THE TALK STORY
Moderated by ʻIlima Long, Ciara Lacy and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio will discuss the role that art plays in activism.
Meet the Panelists
Ciara Lacy
(PC: Bruna Hort)
Ciara Lacy is a kanaka maoli (native Hawaiian) filmmaker, whose interest lies in crafting films that use strong characters and investigative journalism to challenge the creative and political status quo. Her work has shown at festivals around the world including Sundance and Berlinale as well as on Netflix, PBS, ABC, Al Jazeera, and the Criterion Collection. In the digital space, she has created content for the Guardian and the Atlantic Online. She was the inaugural Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellow as well as part of the inaugural class of NATIVe Fellows at the European Film Market. Ciara holds a BA in Psychology from Yale University and has given talks at academic institutions across the U.S. She continues to work on documentary content for broadcast and digital while also expanding her intimate style of filmmaking into the branded content, commercial, and animation spaces.
Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
(PC: Daniella Zalcman)
Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist/ activist / scholar born and raised in Pālolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Heoli earned her PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Currently, Heoli is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Heoli is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford University (BA) and New York University (MA). Her book Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in Fall 2021.
'Ilima Long
ʻIlima Long is a PhD student in the Political Science department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She works as a Uniserv Director for the Hawaiʻi State Teacher's Association. She has organized around Native Hawaiian, land defense, and labor issues on Oʻahu for 12 years.