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The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu: Premiere In-Person Film Screening
The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu, featured as the finale film in Pacific Heartbeat Season 11, is having its in-person premiere on Friday, June 17, at the Bishop Museum.

The documentary tells the story of four healers who brought their powers from Tahiti to the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Four stones in Waikiki pay tribute to the healers, but an accompanying plaque fails to mention they were mahu — individuals who embodied both male and female spirits. The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu tells the story of these four healers and explores what happened to people of two spirits as colonialism swept across the Pacific.

The screening on June 17 is occurring alongside the opening of a major gallery exhibition of the same name, which will be on view in Bishop Museum’s Castle Memorial Building through Oct. 23, 2022. The gallery will be open for viewing prior to the screening.
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The Discussion Guide for Pacific Heartbeat Season 11 is available! The brief guide is a companion resource for Season Eleven and a gateway to further thinking and learning about this year’s four new films and the timely and important issues they depict. It’s also a fun way to engage with family and friends, colleagues, and community members on social media, around the lunch table, and beyond!

For more information about the guide and some tips and best practices in using it, please view a short video discussion with the guide’s author.
Watch the Discussion Guide Video
We were thrilled to have so many PIC-funded and co-produced films show at CAAMFest and LAAPFF. If you missed them, keep an eye on these films as they continue to make the festival rounds!
Every Day in Kaimukī - Feature
Ala Moana Boys - Short
Ka Ho'i - Short
Last Hawaiian Sugar - Short
River of Small Gods - Short
Kåntan Hereru: A Blacksmith's Song - Documentary

Coming Soon!
The application period for PIC's Media Fund opens June 27. 

The Media Fund is PIC's longest standing funding initiative and provides funds for single non-fiction projects of half an hour or an hour in length about the indigenous Pacific Islander experience for two critical phases of production: Production and Post-production. Projects applying to the Media Fund must be intended for national public television broadcast, and therefore must be able to enter into a production agreement — this is not your typical grant.
Learn More About The Fund

In Case You Missed It...
Our online conversation with filmmakers and subjects of High Tide Don't Hide is available on YouTube.
Pacific Heartbeat Season Eleven is available to stream on PBS.
The short film Inheritance by Native Hawaiian filmmaker Erin Lau premiered at the Tribeca Festival and is available online through June 26.
A special Pride Month conversation with filmmakers of The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu is available on YouTube. 
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