Last Hawaiian Sugar
- Filmmaker(s)
- Anne Misawa
- Déjà Bernhardt
- Gerard Elmore
- Darrin Kaneshiro
- Category
- Short Film
- Subject Matter
- Family, Women, Climate Change, Race & Diversity, Culture & Tradition
- Featured In
- Pacific Pulse
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 immigrant camp that big-sugar brought here to work these fields. Noe has an intensely spiritual connection to the land she exists on, this is how she identifies in the world. When Noe learns the mill is closing she attempts to tell her mother of the sexual abuse her step-father inflicts upon her, praying that her mother won’t force them to move with him. When her mother isn’t able to hear her cries for help Noe resolves to sabotage the final sugarcane burn as she prepares to say goodbye to the only home she’s ever known.
Deja Bernhardt-Leazer