PBS to air UH Academy for Creative Media special on statehood
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"State of Aloha,” a one-hour statehood documentary from the University of Hawaiçi’s Academy for Creative Media, will be part of a special two-hour “Insights,” Thursday evening on PBS Hawaii. This will be the first program from ACM to be broadcast to a statewide audience.
Following the “State of Aloha” broadcast, “Insights” moderator Dan Boylan will be joined by a special panel: journalist Helen Altonn (with Star-Bulletin for 54 years; Kekuni Blaisdell, M.D., professor of medicine, University of Hawaii-Mänoa, Hawaiian sovereignty activist; John Waihee, former Hawaii governor (1986-1994); and Jon Okamura, professor, ethnic studies. UH-Mänoa.
Insights viewers and Web followers can join the live discussions each week by calling in questions (973-1000) or emailing to insights @pbshawaii.org, as well as following the discussion on twitter.com or the pbshawaii and the Insights LIVE blog forum at pbshawaii.org.
“State of Aloha” was a four-year research documentary project produced by ACM students and professional mentors. Producer/director Ann Misawa says ACM pitched a research topic on Hawaiçi statehood and received funding from a General Services Administration grant intended for research.
Misawa says, “We were free to explore the topic as we saw fit…. What I have heard from students over and over is that they were surprised by this or that element of history they were not aware of earlier.”
The title, “State of Aloha” was taken from a sermon concerning statehood given by Reverend Abraham Akaka on March 13, 1959.
PBS SPECIAL
“State of Aloha”
Statehood documentary from the University of Hawaiçi’s Academy for Creative Media
Part of a two-hour “Insights,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, August 27
Rebroadcast: 10:30 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Sunday
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