New documentary on Honolulu Chinatown

Fimmaker Robin Lung, who made the fantastic Finding Kukan documentary a few years ago, has a new project.

Robin has made a a short documentary I produced on photojournalist Nancy Bannick and her effort to preserve Honolulu’s Chinatown in the face of devastating urban renewal projects in the 1960s and 70s, will premiere at the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival on November 12 at 2pm at the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke Theater. It will also be available to stream online November 14-27. NANCY BANNICK: SAVING HONOLULU’S CHINATOWN is part of a terrific slate of films in HIFF’s “Looking Back” series that features another Chinatown short by Kimberlee Bassford, a short on the history of Kapaʻa town on Kauaʻi, and a tribute to the late photographer Corky Lee. The four films should generate really great discussion afterwards, so I hope you can join me at the theater. If not you can access all of the films online with a virtual HIFF ticket or online pass. Be sure to check out the full program at HIFF because there are wonderful Hawai’i made films that are sure to interest many of you.