On Thursday, January 28th from 6:00 PM HST - 8:30 PM HST the Institute for Climate and Peace in collaboration with Working Films will host a virtual film screening of Revisioning Recovery: Uncovering the Roots of Disaster, a compilation of five short films that illuminate the current injustices, systems at play, and the solutions needed to prepare and respond to climate disasters. The short films bring overlooked stories into the light and expose the historical inequities that are exacerbated when disasters hit.

This event will also include a live viewing of Our Atoll Speaks, an award-winning communal film poem about the vast environmental knowledge of an atoll in the Northern Group of the Cook Islands (Directed and produced by Gemma Cubero del Barrio), and a panel discussion with film experts on the roots of climate injustice.

The panel will feature Vilsoni Hereniko (Award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and professor of screenwriting, Indigenous film production, and film studies at the University of Hawaiʻi), Leanne Kaʻiulani Ferrer (Executive Director of Pacific Islanders in Communications), Anthony Aalto (Co-Founder and Producer at Green Island Films), Anthony Kaauamo Pacheco (Founder of Kekulamamo, a Lānai video company), and Gemma Cubero del Barrio (Documentary Producer, Director, and Founder of Talcual Films). The discussion will be moderated by Taylour Chang (Curator of Film and Performance at the Honolulu Museum of Art).

The films will be available in English with options for English and Spanish subtitles and English audio description. Please fill out the following form by January 20 to request accessibility services for the discussion portion of the event: bit.ly/revisioningaccess.