Families of the World Film Festival

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Families of the World Film Festival
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Type: Family Event
Date: Sunday - 7/24/2011
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am * 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location:
University of Hawaii-
UH School of Architecture
Auditorium (Rm. 205)
2411 Dole Street
Honolulu, HI. 96822
956-9883.
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Winner of over 20 national awards!
Sunday • July 24 • 10:00am - 11:30am • 1:00pm - 2:30pm
UH School of Architecture, Auditorium (Rm. 205)
For more information, call 956-9883.

Presented in conjunction with Outreach College's summer theme, Advancing Asia-Pacific, and in cooperation with Master-Communications, Inc. and KIDS FIRST Film Festival.

Take a fantastic journey to a country in Asia-Pacific and spend a day in the lives of two families. Narrated by children, each 30-minute film focuses on a different culture, housing, education, food, clothing and celebrations - from breakfast to bedtime and all the fun-filled activities in between! For age 5 and up.

Come to one or both programs!

Morning Program 10:00am – 11:30am, 90 minutes

Families of Korea
Nine-year old Heejin lives in 600-year-old HaHoe village and is learning the village's ancient mask dance that's performed for visitors all summer long. Join Heejin and her father as they visit the local market and stop at a rice paper factory to buy gift-wrapping for her grandmother's birthday. There we see how paper is hand-made.

Follow 9-year-old Kitae in Seoul, the capital of Korea, through a busy day in school and at his many after-school activities. Kitae's mother shops in the neighborhood open market and supermarket. Watch Kitae's aunt and his mother make a special dinner and follow his father to the factory that he manages.

Families of Australia
Visit eight-year-old Phoebe on her family's farm near Attunga, a town northwest of Sydney, as she gathers eggs for breakfast, rounds up sheep, enjoys Sports Day at school and takes a violin lesson after school.

Seven-year-old Josh lives in Sydney, Australia's largest city. Follow Josh as he takes care of the pet chickens, goes to school, visits his grandparents and makes a chain of volcanoes from an egg carton.

Families of Vietnam
In Ho Chi Minh City, nine-year-old Le Thi Thanh Hong goes to school where she studies French, art and reading and plays games with friends. After school the family enjoys bowling, then Hong does her homework. The next day Hong enjoys swimming at the community pool and the Vietnamese New Year Tet festivities, including the dragon dancing and fireworks.

Four-year-old Bi lives by the Mekong River with her family. She attends school and enjoys spending time with her friends and older brother. Her parents work on their banana and papaya plantation in the morning, then set off on their "boat store," selling groceries to customers out on the river.

Afternoon Program 1:00pm – 2:30pm, 90 minutes

Families of Japan
Nine-year-old Seichi lives on a farm near Furukawa, Japan. His family has raised rice there for 14 generations. Seichi and his sisters help feed the rabbits and chickens, watch TV, and go to their cousin's engagement party. We see the schoolteachers and children prepare for Sports Day and watch Seichi and his family enjoy the special holiday.

Eight-year-old Ayako lives in Sendai, Japan. Ayako loves to climb trees, play her piano (which can be silenced so that it can only be heard through earphones), and go to calligraphy lessons. We follow Ayako and her mother as they go grocery shopping.

Families of Thailand
This program takes us to Bangkok to follow ten-year-old Rakkiaet and his family, who live and work on a canal. Rakkiaet goes to school by boat, his brother runs a water taxi, his mother does her shopping at the floating market, and his father sells food from his boat to families along the canal. Buddhist monks visit the family's dock each day before dawn to accept food the family has prepared for them.

We also visit seven-year-old Akeem in a community of Sea Gypsies on Thailand's southern coast. We see Akeem's mother caring for her newborn infant, follow Akeem to school, and go fishing with Akeem's father, who catches tropical fish for export.

Families of China
Nine-year-old Zhu Kun lives in Xiku Town, near Ningbo, where his mother and father grow bonsai in the mountains. We follow Kun as he walks a half-hour to his school, watch the cook steam lunches the students have brought from home, see how Kun's father trains bonsai plants, visit the village's open market with Kun's mother and watch her prepare a meal for the family and Kun's grandparents.

Nine-year-old Qinbo and her family live in Ningbo, a port city in China. We see Qinbo's father prepare breakfast and bike to work, follow her mother to work on a motor bike, and go to school with Qinbo on a public bus. We take a peek at students' after-school activities.

Present your Families of the World Film Festival ticket stub at Yogurtland, 1810 University Avenue (across the street from the UHM School of Architecture), for a 20% discount. Good only on July 24, 2011.

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