HŌKŪLE'A: FINDING THE LANGUAGE OF THE NAVIGATOR | Hawai'i International Film Festival

HŌKŪLE’A: FINDING THE LANGUAGE OF THE NAVIGATOR

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In 2006, cultural anthropologist Wade Davis sailed with master navigator Nainoa Thompson to learn about the art of wayfinding. Fifteen years later the two explorers contemplate the mysteries of traditional navigation and a future inspired by the language of the navigator.

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Director(s):

Ty Sanga

Producer(s):

Mona Abadir, Ann Botticelli, Heather Giugni, Sonja Swenson Rogers

Writer(s):

Ty Sanga

Cast:

Nainoa Thompson, Wade Davis

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With aloha, HIFF acknowledges its occupation of ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Indigenous Hawaiian people, the Kānaka Maoli.

With gratitude, we honor the ʻāina itself and the generations who steward it.

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