April 1-10, 2022
It’s time for the 2022 DisOrient Film Festival. Check out the line up. And look for the SNEAK PREVIEW on their website—This Saturday, March 12!
Here are the JA highlights at DisOrient:
- Omoiyari (Highly recommended)
- Before They Take us Away (We rarely hear about the JAs who chose to “voluntarily” evacuate from the West Coast)
- Shorts Program: The Power of Our Stories (11 films by AAPI elders enrolled in a LA filmmaking class.)
- Honor Thy Mother (Tangentially JA; On Bainbridge Island, Filipino farm workers tended the JA farms when the owners were incarcerated, and indigenous women were brought in to help.)
- Emergent Artistry Shorts Program (Kintsugi and Uyafaafuji’s Refusal: An Ode to the Yanbaru
Social Justice films (that JA’s should find of interest):
- Reparations (Highly recommended)
- Not Your Model Minority (Highly recommended)
- The Race Epidemic
Hawai’i Films
- Dear Thalia
- Food For the Rest Of Us (One of the communities highlighted is Ma’o Organic Farms in Wai’anae)
- Ala Moana Boys
- Hawaiian Soul
The entire festival schedule and a link to pass purchases can be found from our website: https://disorientfilm.org/
