Kiowa Gordon to speak at Film Screening

Kiowa Gordon to speak at Film Screening



Award winning documentary Hawaii A Voice For Sovereignty will be having a special screening, honoring the Native Hawaiian Culture, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California on April 3rd at 3:00pm.
Kiowa Gordon from Twilight Saga, New Moon will speak in support of the Hawaiian Culture and all indigenous cultures. Directed by photojournalist Catherine Bauknight, Hawaii A Voice For Sovereignty is an epic documentary film about the Hawaiian Culture, spirituality, and the Hawaiian’s close connection to the land. At the forefrontof the film are the complicated social, economic, and ecological issues that have developed in Hawaii since the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani by the U.S. in 1893.



The film is in the voice of Native Hawaiian people who address the issues they continue to face in their long struggle to regain sovereign rights and Native Lands lost after the overthrow. These revelations are presented in the voice of grassroots indigenous people and scholars including: Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask, Professor KaleikoaKa’eo, Hawai`i State Senator Kalani English, Bumpy Kanahele, Clifford Nae’ole,Ramsay Taum, Kahu Hanalei Colleado, Guy Aina, Ke’eaumoku Kapu, and authorGregg Braden.

The goal of the documentary is to raise awareness of these issues that threaten theHawaiian’s ancient, once-environmentally-sustainable culture. Key contributors to the film through music and chants are: Charles Ka’upu, Cyril Pahinui, George Kahumoku,Ke’eaumoku Kapu, Lono, Richard Ho’opi’i, Skippy Ioane, Willie K, Makana, Kamuela Rodrigues, Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu, and Ulalena: The Music of Michel Cusson, and Luc Boivin. Film Trailer can be seen at www.catherinebauknight.com The 84-minute film was released in June, 2009.