Indie Lens Pop-Up 2023
Indie Lens Pop-Up is a neighborhood series that brings people together for film screenings and community-driven conversations. Featuring documentaries seen on the PBS Independent Lens series, Indie Lens Pop-Up draws local residents, leaders, and organizations together to discuss what matters most, from newsworthy topics, to family and relationships. Make friends, share stories, and join the conversation at an Indie Lens Pop-Up screening hosted by Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking in collaboration with Hawaiʻi Peoples Fund.
Program
Kelsey Peterson dancing in studio | Credit: Noah Forbes
Beneath the waters of Lake Superior, off the shore of Wisconsin, Kelsey Peterson underwent a transformation. On the eve of Independence Day 2012, she dove in and hit the lake bottom headfirst, suffering a life-altering spinal cord injury that takes away both function and sensation from the chest down, essentially robbing Kelsey of her self-identities as an athlete and dancer. Alongside peers and allies in the spinal cord injury community, she seeks to answer the question “Who am I now?” As she grapples with the ebb and flow of hope and acceptance, Kelsey talks to researchers and meets with people who belong to this community and who help give her the strength and the will to return to dance. When a cutting-edge clinical trial surfaces, it tests her expectations and her faith in the possibility of a cure, forcing her to evaluate the limits of her recovery—in body and spirit.
Time: Thursday October 20, 2022 - the Screening is going to be VIRTUAL. Please RSVP.
Screening starts at 5:30 pm followed by a audience driven conversation - link to join the conversation will be shared during screening.
Ronnie Grigg inside the Overdose Prevention Society site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | Credit: Colin Askey
As fentanyl overdose deaths in Vancouver, Canada reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Society opens its doors—a renegade safe injection site that employs current or former drug users. Its staff and volunteers save lives and give hope to a marginalized community, doing whatever it takes to remain open, in this intimate documentary that looks beyond the stigma of injection drug users.
Time: Friday February 3, 2023 - doors open at 5:15, screening starts at 5:30 pm followed community driven conversation
Location: Hub Coworking, 1050 Queen Street, 100, Honolulu, HI 96814
A group of welfare mothers listen intently to an explanation of the state's latest move during a sit-in at the Columbia Point housing project | Credit: Boston Public Library Boston Herald, MediaNews Group, Inc.
After losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas, Ruby Duncan co-founded a welfare rights group of ordinary mothers who defied notions of the “welfare queen.” In a fight for a universal basic income in 1969, Ruby and other equality activists took on the Nevada mob in organizing a massive protest that shut down Caesars Palace.
Time: Friday March 3, 2023 - doors open at 5:15, screening starts at 5:30 pm followed community driven conversation
Location: Hub Coworking, 1050 Queen Street, 100, Honolulu, HI 96814
TV news crews surround Chol Soo Lee after he is released from prison on March 28, 1983. | Credit: Grant Din
Sentenced to death for a lurid 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside San Quentin, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.
Time: Friday April 7, 2023, 2023 - doors open at 5:15, screening starts at 5:30 pm followed community driven conversation
Location: Hub Coworking, 1050 Queen Street, 100, Honolulu, HI 96814
FEBRUARY 3, 2023 Love in the Time of Fentanyl / By Colin Askey, Monika Navarro, Marc Serpa Francoeur, and Robinder Uppal
MARCH 3, 2023 Storming Caesars Palace / By Hazel Gurland-Pooler
APRIL 7, 2023 Free Chol Soo Lee / By Julie Ha, Eugene Yi, and Su Kim
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