Original message sent by Ed Rampel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HULA GIRLS PREMIERES AT PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL WHAT: Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise WHERE: Magic Johnson Theatres, 3650 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. WHEN: Monday, Feb. 13th at 1:20 PM & Friday, Feb. 17th at 5:40 PM Both screenings followed by a Q&A with Ed Rampell. ADMISSION: $7.25 before 4:00 p.m.; $9.25 after 4:00 p.m. Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise is having its North America premiere at the Pan African Film Festival on Feb. 13 and Feb. 17. Hula Girls is a new documentary about the depiction of Polynesian women in explorers' logs, literature, painting and the movies. Ed Rampell, "the people's film historian," appears in Hula Girls, will participate in Q&As after both PAFF screenings, and is available now for interviews.20 Hula Girls is an Australian co-production that includes clips from films about Pacific Islanders shot in Hollywood studios and on location in the South Pacific, such as Tabu, Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando and Tarita and Blue Hawaii with Elvis. Rampell discusses South Seas celluloid sexual stereotypes in Hula Girls and in the post-screening Q&As. Rampell co-wrote with Luis Reyes Made In Paradise, Hollywood's Films of Hawaii and the South Seas and Pearl Harbor in the Movies, and lived in Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii and Micronesia for 20-plus years. Rampell
is also author of the 2005 book Progressive Hollywood, A People's Film History of the United States (see: www.progressivehollywood.com <http://www.progressivehollywood.com/> Hula Girls is directed by Australian filmmaker Trevor Graham, who directed films about Aussie Communists, 1984's Red Matildas, and Australian Aborigines, 1997's Mabo: Life of an Island Man. Although there have been various studies about how other groups, such as Blacks and gays, have been depicted onscreen, Hula Girls is the most comprehensive film ever about the South Seas Cinema film genre. The Pan African Film Festival is held annually in L.A. during Black History Month and regularly features films featuring Pacific Islanders. (See: www.paff.org and http://www.paff.org/html/film_guide.php#H [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
