This film by noted Hawaii filmmaker Edgy Lee, previewed at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. The Hawaiians is a film of transcendent splendor that defends Native rights and culture, and offers important ...See moreThis film by noted Hawaii filmmaker Edgy Lee, previewed at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. The Hawaiians is a film of transcendent splendor that defends Native rights and culture, and offers important cultural insights into who the Hawaiians are as a people, their origins, historical challenges and current social conditions, and the revival of spirit of a native people whose identity is intrinsically tied to their Hawaiian homelands. Lee's film is also covered in the book "Progressive Hollywood, A People's Film History of the United States," by Ed Rampell, who places Edgy alongside the leading documentary filmmakers of our time, and considers her "Hawaii's greatest local filmmaker."
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