Prison Songs
The people imprisoned in a Darwin jail are shown in a unique and completely new light in Australia’s first ever documentary musical.
- Filmmaker(s)
- Kelrick Martin
- Harry Bardwell
- Category
- Full-Length Film
Season Eight
January 2019
Pacific Heartbeat, now in its eighth season, is a television series that showcases independently produced documentary films of the real Pacific - its people, cultures and contemporary issues.
This season we witness stories of determination and courage from Australia, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Tonga and the U.S.
From those struggling to survive an outdated prison system through song to the right of passage of the Leitis, to the efforts to claim an ancestral artifact back to its homeland, and the valor of a K9 unit officer present at the 9-11 attack at the Pentagon.
Leitis in Waiting
The Kingdom of Tonga is one of the most socially...
- Filmmaker(s)
- Dean Hamer
- Joe Wilson
- Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
- Category
- Full-Length Film
Te Kuhane o te Tupuna
A grandfather and a girl travel from the most remote island in the world, Easter Island, in search of Mana, the sacred power of their ancestors.
- Filmmaker(s)
- Leonardo Pakarati
- Paula Rossetti
- Category
- Full-Length Film
Corridor Four
Corridor Four challenges the image of the American hero in a heartfelt portrait of 9/11 first-responder Isaac Ho’opi’i as he works to put that traumatic...
- Filmmaker(s)
- Stephen Tringali
- Maria Bissell
- Category
- Full-Length Film
Let’s Play Music! Slack Key with Cyril Pahinui & Friends
An intimate look at master slack key artist Cyril Pahinui, his friends, and family as they play music and reminisce about his father, Gabby Pahinui, one of Hawaiʻi’s...
- Filmmaker(s)
- Naʻalehu Anthony
- Category
- Full-Length Film
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