To Conserve & Protect: Fighting for and collaborating with the planet

  Streaming with closed captions

The idyllic Hawaiian island of Kauai has the reputation of a place of leisure, but behind this façade of bliss lies a much darker past. With cheeky humour and astute political analysis, director Anthony Banua-Simon expertly weaves poignant clips from Hollywood films, demonstrating how the film industry’s pattern of cultural appropriation and gross misrepresentation has negatively impacted Indigenous Hawaiians and the working class of Kauai. Using four generations of his own family’s experience, Banua-Simon breaks through the illusion of movie magic to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the true cost of colonial displacement, sugar cane farming and the booming tourist and real estate industries in Hawaii. Heather Haynes

This film includes a pre-recorded Q&A.

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