HIFILM PANEL — SPOTLIGHT ON INDIGENOUS TAIWAN: INDIGENOUS STORYTELLING, NATIVE SOVEREIGNTY & ALLYSHIP IN ASIA-PACIFIC/OCEANIA
Friday, June 14, 2024
6:00 pm: Doors open / light refreshments
6:30 pm: Panel start (60 minutes)
Hawai‘i International Film Festival HQ
3512 Waialae Ave
Honolulu, HI 96816
About Indigenous Film Academy of Taiwan: Indigenous film academy of Taiwan started in 2022, August, also is the first platform which was focus on film making to educate and empower indigenous filmmakers in Asia. Although it is just in its infancy, we would like to bring the indigenous filmmakers together from different ethnic groups across Taiwan to share their works, learn about how to make the film,and nurture the younger generation of filmmakers. In this era of multiculturalism, we need the younger generation of indigenous people to start telling their own stories in their own way, through the images and the movies.
CONFIRMED PANELISTS
Sayun Simung
Sayun Simung is of the Tayal people, which is one of the indigenous people in Taiwan. Graduated with a degree in Radio and Television from the National Taiwan University of the Arts, after which Sayun worked as a reporter for the Taiwan Indigenous Television and Era TV stations, and also served as a documentary production coordinator for the Public Television Serivce. Because of years of working experiences, Sayun decided to return to her village(Sqoyaw) to shoot Tayal culture that was about to disappear. It’s rarely hearing the voices from indigenous, so Sayun established the Indigenous Film Academy in Taiwan in August, 2022. She hope it would gather more ethnic to share and learn from each other to be a filmmaker and speak for our own.
Kainoa Rudolfo
Kainoa Rudolfo is Program Manager at Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC). Kainoa received a master’s degree in Communications from the University of Hawaiʻi. After excelling academically, Kainoa deepened his hands-on production experience while working for ʻŌiwi TV on Oʻahu. While at ʻŌiwi TV, Kainoa’s distinguished project achievements include the production of the short documentary “Ancestral Ink – Keone Nunes”. This short documentary was a component of the NĀ LOEA: THE MASTERS episode featured in season 2 of PIC’s Pacific Heartbeat national television series. Kainoa is co-founder of the Hawaiʻi Filmmakers Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to Hawaiʻi’s independent filmmaking community. Kainoa brings with him the experience of being a filmmaker but also a community facilitator experienced with helping other filmmakers.