PACS 108: Pacific Worlds: Media: Audio/Visual

The website Breadfruit Educational Resources includes a variety of short documentary films created by Dr. Lola Quan-Bautista, who is a faculty member in Pacific Islands Studies. These films include:

• Crossing Spaces (about three Micronesian women who build new lives in Hawai'i)
• Math  Is Everywhere (which features Chuukese educators discussing concepts related to ethnomathematics)
• Voices of Women in Micronesia (in which educators Delihna Ehmes and Alice Ehmes answer the question "What is the ideal Micronesian woman?")
• Noahno & Lih Pingelap (in which Pingelapese poet Resida Keller discusses the questions “where is my place?” and “what is my role?”)
• Learning about Skirts from Micronesia: A Lesson with Aunty Yoana (about "urohs," or Pohnpeian skirts)
• Chimako’s Keynote Speech (The opening-day speech of the 9th Annual Marshallese Education Day, in which Chimako Anitok discusses racism and discrimination faced by many Micronesians living abroad.)
• Atan Bithen del Carmen (in which Señora Carmen Camacho Rojas sings “Atan Bithen del Carmen,” a Chamorro-language song in honor of her patron saint, Our Lady of Mount Carmel.)

Dr. Quan-Bautista's documentary film Breadfruit and Open Spaces is also available for streaming through the library's subscription to Ethnographic Videos Online (click on the film title for a link to the streaming version).

• Hawaiian Streaming Videos Videos on a variety of Hawai'i topics, which have been digitized from Hamilton Library's physical collections (requires valid UH-Mānoa ID/password).
• Pacific Streaming Videos Videos on a variety of Pacific topics, which have been digitized from Hamilton Library's physical collections (requires valid UH-Mānoa ID/password).

• NZ On screen  Explore an excellent collection of documentaries, TV shows, and feature films from New Zealand.