Kama'āina (Child of the Land)

Directed by Kimi Lee · Starring Aria Alexander, Twinkle Borge, Nainoa Brown-Kahananui, Sabina Friedman-Seitz · 2020

Having left home and a toxic stepfather, Mahina, a queer native Hawaiian teen, tries to survive on the streets of Wai'anae and find a community to belong to.

A rare, intimate look at a corner of Hawai'i postcards never show, through one resilient teen.

Director Kimi Howl Lee points her lens to a neglected corner of the United States’ paradise island of O‘ahu. The relatively low-income neighborhood of Wai’anae is predominantly home to native Hawai’ians and sets the scen

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