Cane fire
DVD - 2024
"The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. Cane Fire critically examines the island's history -- and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it--through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon's family, who first immigrated to Kauaʻi from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources--from Banua-Simon's observational footage, to amateur YouTube travelogues, to epic Hollywood dance sequences -- Cane... Fire offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Documentaires
Films autres que de fiction - Published
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©2024
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- Released as a documentary film in 2021.
Special features : Audio commentary track with director Anthony Banua-Simon and producer Mike Vass ; theatrical trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by writer and programmer Emerson Goo. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (90 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Playing Time
- 01:29:49
- Format
- DVD ; English 5.1 or 2.0.
- Awards
- Best Feature Documentary, Indie Memphis Film Festival, 2020
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, 2021
Jason D. Mak Award for Social Justice, DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, - 2021
Vijay Mohan Social Change Award, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, 2021 - Production Credits
- Filmed and edited by Anthony Banua-Simon ; original music, Mike Cooper ; photos provided courtesy of Kaua'i Historical Society.