Description: What are the challenges confronting peoples of the Asia-Pacific regions, particularly indigenous peoples? How can film, writing, indigenous myths, oral literature, and other repositories of our cultural heritage shed light on the current geopolitical situation, on terrorism, and on justice? What are the myths we circulate about people who are different from us? These questions and more will be the focus of some of the world’s foremost filmmakers, producers, scholars, and writers who will present their work as well as discuss the many ways that different forms of storytelling can help us better understand our new world. The themes of the conference and Fall Celebration of Writers underscore our collective need to understand the nature and causes of terrorism as we strive together for peace and justice for all peoples everywhere.
Dates: November 5-8, 2002
Location: Imin Conference Center
Film maker(s): Marilou Diaz-Abaya; Buddhadeb Dasgupta; Esther Figueroa; Merata Mita; Puhipau & Joan Lander; Don C. Selwyn
Sponsors/Co-Sponsors: Center for Pacific Island Studies-UHM; Hawaii International Film Festival; Pacific Islanders in Communications; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; NETPAC/USA
Convener: Vilsoni Hereniko; Ruth Hsu