Pacific Pulse

Season Five

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Season Five

March 2024

We're pleased to present Season 5 of Pacific Pulse, featuring 22 episodes premiering each Thursday starting March 7, 2024. The season begins with all episodes of Season 4 of Reel Wāhine of Hawai’i — premiering in March to celebrate Women’s History Month.

 

These films will be available year-round and will complement our broadcast series,

Pacific Heartbeat.

 

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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi - Sancia Nash

The Reel Wāhine of Hawai'i short film series chronicles talented and pioneering women filmmakers who tell Hawai‘i stories uniquely through a camera lens....

Filmmaker(s)
Meleanna Aluli Meyer
Category
Short Film
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi - Jana Park

The Reel Wāhine of Hawai'i short film series chronicles talented and pioneering women filmmakers who tell Hawai‘i stories uniquely through a camera lens. Jana...

Filmmaker(s)
Fé María Vásquez
Category
Short Film
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After the Endling

Snuggled deep within Hawai'i's forests, the tiniest of creatures faces a vital battle against extinction.

Filmmaker(s)
Ciara Leinaʻala Lacy
Gerard Elmore
Daniel A. Kelin II
Category
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Kantan Hereru

Guam’s only living Master blacksmith shares the importance of his craft to daily life in the past and tries to find a place for it in a modern landscape.

Filmmaker(s)
Sean Lizama
James Aevermann
Myracle Mugol
Category
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Ala Moana Boys

Five friends caught in the middle of a scandal in 1930s Oahu must consider their future and their families as they weigh the dire consequences of inaction versus action.

Filmmaker(s)
Keliʻi Grace
Alexander Deedy
Mary Baghdady
Category
Short Film
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Sina ma Tinirau

A cursed prince becomes an eel. To go back to being human, he needs to conquer the love of a beautiful woman. Inspired in a polynesian myth  

Filmmaker(s)
Vilsoni Hereniko
Category
Short Film
Series
Digital Short
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Kumu Niu

The grassroots movement Niu Now works to restore the sacred niu, or coconut, as a fundamental food crop in Hawai‘i.

Filmmaker(s)
Alex Cantatore and the National Association of State Foresters
Category
Short Film
Series
Digital Short
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River of Small Gods

On the brink of eviction, a Hawaiian woman named Anela is hired by a mysterious sculptor to retrieve stones from a riverbed deep in the forests of northern O‘ahu.

Filmmaker(s)
Rea Chpek
Joshua Lee
Briana Smith
Category
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Down On The Sidewalk in Waikiki

A lowly, soft-spoken janitor works in Waikīkī, surrounded by speedy Japanese, overweight Americans, and displaced Hawaiians. To keep from going insane, he channels his...

Filmmaker(s)
Justyn Ah Chong
Category
Short Film
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Ka Ho'i

A Hawaiian War Veteran grapples with the struggles of growing older and the nightmares of his past until one night he hears a familiar voice calling him from the beach,...

Filmmaker(s)
Category
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Last Hawaiian Sugar

Last Hawaiian Sugar is a short drama set on the final remaining sugar cane plantation on Maui. Noe, a mixed-race/Samoan, eleven-year-old girl, is the product of this...

Filmmaker(s)
Anne Misawa
Déjà Bernhardt
Gerard Elmore
Darrin Kaneshiro
Category
Short Film
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Hawaiian Soul

Against the backdrop of the 1970s native rights movement, George Helm, a young Hawaiian activist and musician must gain the support of kūpuna (community elders)...

Filmmaker(s)
ʻĀina Paikai
Kaliko Mai'i
Category
Digital Short

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