Set in Taiwan and Hawaiʻi, territories where languages of the Austronesian family are spoken, this documentary focuses on the questions, desires and challenges of young indigenous peoples to learn the languages of their forebears— languages that are endangered or facing extinction.
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An-Chi Chen as As Herself / Co-director
Lei Kainoa Kaupu as As Herself / Co-director
Monica Hau'oli Waiau as As Herself / Co-director
Shin-Lan Yu as As Herself / Co-director
United States 05 May 2013
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19 June 2013
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies.
04 June 2013
Hamdan is a former Palestinian leader who spent 15 years locked up in the old Israeli prisons. In 1973, while living in Syria, he was given a mission to smuggle explosives across the border and train a person he trusted.
22 April 2013
Surfer Dane Reynolds takes a sharp look into the timeless style of Craig Anderson. A modern approach with hints to the past, Slow Dance follows Craig in and out of the water as he travels the world meeting up with heroes and friends in Australia, Chile, India, West Africa and Tahiti to name a few.
26 July 2013
A woman and young daughter escape her abusive husband by faking their deaths. Eight years later she is happily living in the upscale Palm Springs with her now-17-year-old daughter.
19 June 2013
A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University — when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
27 March 2013
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.
26 February 2013
What does it take to say a word of love? How long and how much strength does it take for the heart to speak? How many streets at night? How fast? How many faces in how many bars? What tenderness? What pain? What music? What images in the mind? And where does it come from? Is it in the darkness of a closed park at night? In the back room of a Chinese bar? In the bottom of a beer? In a collective dance? In a sister's laughter? When does it finally happen? For the soul to let go.
17 October 2013
Possible is a short film directed by director Diane M. Dresback. The film is a drama starring Deb Blume and Seth Gandrud.
30 October 2013
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness.
18 December 2013
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
20 March 2013
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building.
04 October 2013
Kim lives with his dad, sells weed to skaters, writes poetry, and snorts painkillers to get through the day.
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