Speaker highlight: Anne Keala Kelly is an award winning, Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist whose works focus primarily on the early 21st century Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Her feature length documentary, Noho Hewa, has been screened and broadcast internationally and is widely taught in university courses that focus on indigenous peoples, the Pacific, and colonization. Ms. Kelly’s expertise is on Native Hawaiian resistance to U.S. policies regarding desecration, militarism, forced assimilation, and legislative attempts to federally recognize the Hawaiians as a native people of the United States. She is a Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism fellow and has an MFA in Directing from the UCLA School of Film and Television. https://youtube/watch?v=r69D97_tH5k Ms. Kelly’s broadcast journalism has aired on Al Jazeera and the Pacifica Network, and her published articles, commentary and reviews have appeared in Indian Country Today, The Nation, the Honolulu Advertiser, and the Honolulu Weekly. Ms. Kelly’s other published works include: Resistance to Empire, Erasure and Selling Out, essay, “A Nation Rising,” Duke University Press; American Outrage, review, American Indian Quarterly; Hawaiian Literature and Resistance: How My Ancestors took on the Stryker Brigade and Joined the Struggle to De-militarize Hawaii, essay, American Indian Quarterly; A Kingdom Inside: The Future of Hawaiian Political Identity, essay, Futures: The Journal for Forecasting, Planning and Policy; Haolewood: Colonial Codes, Kapu Narratives and Kanaka Oiwi Discourse, essay, Spectator: The USC Journal of Film and Television Criticism FertileGroundInstitute.org
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:51:57 +0000
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