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Cane Fire [In-Person Only]
Sat Jun 04: 5.30pm PDT, 8.30pm PDT
Sun Jun 05: 5.30pm PDT, 8.30pm PDT
Wed Jun 08: 8.00pm PDT
Sat Jun 11: 4.30pm PDT
Sun Jun 12: 4.30pm PDT
Wed Jun 15: 8.30pm PDT
$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
Anthony Banua-Simon
US
2021
1h 30m
About
(Anthony Banua-Simon, US, 2021, 90 min, in English & Hawaiian with English subtitles)
** Co-presented with Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Left Bank Books, and The Vera Project! **
The Hawaiian island of Kauai 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 islands history and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented itthrough four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simons family, who first immigrated to Kauai from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sourcesfrom Banua-Simons 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.
Synopsis and stills courtesy of The Cinema Guild.
Through original and deftly assembled archival footage, Anthony Banua-Simons debut documentary feature Cane Fire considers the long arc of white, corporate economic & cultural pillaging of Hawaii. Patrick Dahl, Screen Slate
A necessary corrective to the perception of Hawaiian identity that diagnoses the problem of representation in pop culture through the filmmakers own deeply personal lens. Eric Kohn, Indiewire
Cane Fire uncovers not one, but several underreported histories at the same time with equal parts reverence, relevance, and rage. Andrew Parker, The Gate
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Executive Director Cara Mia Harris at caramia@nwfilmforum.org
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