HIFF – Mālama Mākua (played w/ short films Ho’omau, Back to the Loko, Memory as Missionary Position)
Nestled on the western shore of Oʻahu, Hawai‘i, Mākua Valley is a sacred place where Native Hawaiian creation stories speak of earth and sky deities giving birth to the first people. Once a thriving community rich in natural abundance, Mākua’s fate changed just days after the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, when the U.S. Army forcibly...
