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Leitis in Waiting 3 - CEO Message 6 - TV Listings 18 - PBS Hawai‘i Passport 4 - Cover Story 10 - Evening Grid 17 - Daytime Grid PROGRAM GUIDE MAY 2019 VOL. 38 NO. 5 SEASON 8 Leitis in Waiting PAGE 4 Courtesy of Qwaves Joey Joleen Mataele is featured in a documentary about Tonga’s transgender women, called leitis. | MAY 2019 PBS Hawai‘i continues to inspire others to GET CAUGHT READING through our statewide multimedia initiative to share the love of reading with our community. We spent quality time with our friends Shayna Lopes and daughter PBS Hawai‘i board member Joy Miura Koerte of Kaua‘i from O‘ahu’s Keiki O Ka ‘Āina Asharee Koep, who attends and storyteller Jim Jung bring a pirate’s world to life Family Learning Center in Kalihi Keiki O Ka ‘Āina Family Learning for students from Kaua‘i Christian Academy during Uka and took the program on Center, bond together over a storytime at our GET CAUGHT READING event at the the road to Princeville, Kaua‘i favorite book. Princeville Public Library. to spread the joy of reading. Windward O‘ahu resident appointed to national board Miriam Hellreich (center), newly appointed board member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), joined PBS Hawai‘i President and CEO Leslie Wilcox and PBS Hawai‘i Board Vice Chair Joanne Lo Grimes for a tour of our station. Hellreich is the first Hawai‘i resident to receive a presidential appointment to serve on the board of CPB, the national nonprofit organization that works to fund public television and radio in this country. She is a speech pathologist and a longtime National Republican Committeewoman. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MANAGEMENT Chair Vice Chair President and CEO Senior Vice President/CFO Jason Fujimoto Joanne Lo Grimes Leslie Wilcox Karen Yamamoto Secretary Treasurer Vice President, Content Vice President, Advancement Bettina Mehnert Kent Tsukamoto Chuck Parker Christina Sumida Muriel Anderson Joy Miura Koerte Vice President, Communications Director, Learning Initiatives Susan Bendon Kamani Kuala‘au Jody Shiroma Robert Pennybacker Jodi Endo Chai Mary Ann Manahan James E. Duffy Jr. Aaron Salā Chief Engineer Matthew Emerson Julie Shimonishi John Nakahira Jake Fergus Ka‘iulani Sodaro Jason Haruki L. Candy Suiso PROGRAM GUIDE Noelani Kalipi Bruce Voss Ian Kitajima Editor and Chief Programmer Graphic Artist John Kovacich Randall Choo pbshawaii.org 2 CEO MESSAGE Leslie Wilcox PBS Hawai‘i President and CEO The Filmmaker Who Went Behind Prison Walls By definition, film directors have control issues. However, tell that to prison authorities who rule To fulfill their creative vision, they compel events the roost and to prisoners who have more than and people and settings to conform to plan. enough reasons not to let down their guard. Ciara “I’m so bossy, I’m so bossy,” says award-winning knew she wouldn’t be able to make the film she O‘ahu film director Ciara Lacy, whose cinéma vérité wanted, unless she released her need for control. documentary Out of State was selected for national “When it came to working in the prison,” she said, distribution by the PBS series Independent Lens. “I call it Taoist filmmaking. You don’t have control We at PBS Hawai‘i are proud and you just give it all up. And you to debut Out of State this month. say, ‘thank you for whatever you’re The documentary follows two Native able to do.’” Hawaiian men who were sent to serve All of five-feet-three inches tall their prison sentences at privately and swimming in her husband’s owned Saguaro Correctional Center long-sleeved shirt, Ciara says she in Arizona. They’re connecting with employed a different “super power” their culture behind bars, far from in interacting with prison officials home, and later they struggle to and prisoners. reintegrate into society on O‘ahu. “I brought a female presence Controlling her circumstances had into an all-male space and used long been a hallmark of Ciara’s life. collaboration. It wasn’t about me As a teenager, her relentless control Hawai‘i filmmaker Ciara Lacy and what I get, it was about sharing.” of time and study habits helped The result is a thought-provoking, propel her to honors as valedictorian multi-layered film, airing on at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama. Next came May 6 at 9:00 pm on PBS Hawai‘i. graduation from Yale University. Congratulations to Ciara Lacy, her producer Instead of pursuing a job related to her psychology Beau Bassett of Honolulu and the documentary major, Ciara resolved to break into the music video team. And best wishes to prisoners and ex-cons business in New York. And she did so – by placing with their own kind of creative vision: seeing and a Craigslist ad. striving to make better lives. Her ability to harness people and schedules and her creativity led to 10 years of consuming work in Aloha nui, video production on the East and West Coasts. “You want to show up and own the space and say, ‘This is how everything has to work.’ Right? This is my crew, this is my schedule, this is what it has to be,” Ciara explained on a recent episode of Long Story Short. 3 PACIFIC HEARTBEAT Leitis in Waiting By Emily Bodfish PBS Hawai‘i Courtesy of Qwaves Courtesy of Qwaves Joey Joleen Mataele Leitis on Fafa Island, Kingdom of Tonga COVER STORY Now in its eighth season, the anthology series PACIFIC HEARTBEAT brings the authentic Pacific – people, cultures, languages, music and contemporary issues – to your screen. This new season brings stories of determination and courage from Australia, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Tonga and the U.S. The series is a production of Pacific Islanders in Communications in partnership with PBS Hawai‘i, and is distributed nationally by American Public Television. Among the films premiering this month is Leitis in Wilson: We wanted our film to have an effect everywhere, Waiting, which tells the story of the Kingdom of Tonga’s but especially in Tonga. Our approach to filmmaking is to evolving approach to gender fluidity through character- show, not tell, and let the viewers decide for themselves. driven portraits of leitis, or indigenous transgender women. That approach lends itself to the Tongan talanoa method The most prominent leiti, Joey Joleen Mataele, is a of conflict resolution. You sit down with your opposition practicing Catholic of noble descent who, over the course and try to come to a mutual understanding. Joey, the of an eventful year, organizes a beauty pageant, and later protagonist of the film, is currently using the film in that a conference with fundamentalist Christians to discuss way as part of her advocacy. the rise of the rhetoric of intolerance toward leitis. Filmmakers Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson and Hinaleimoana Hina, you were instrumental in making the film Wong-Kalu – the subject of Hamer and Wilson’s earlier because of your insider knowledge of the culture. filmKumu Hina, which was also a film about gender fluidity Could you give some insight into those cultural that aired nationally on PBS – spoke with us about the film: differences some viewers might not understand, including the concept of the “usefulness” of the leitis? Could you give us some insight into your intentions with the film, the meaning of it for you and your Wong-Kalu: In Tonga, the royal family is held in utmost audience? regard. They are synonymous with the nation itself, the flag, and the national seal “God and Tonga are my Hamer: At first, we thought we would create a short film inheritance.” about the [beauty] pageant itself, which Hina won one On “usefulness,” the understanding in Polynesian year, by the way. While pursuing that, we realized we culture is that your worth is not measured by how much needed to make a feature length film on the leitis search you acquire, but rather by how much you sacrifice of for equality and recognition in their own country. yourself. The Tongan understanding of the word “useful” as it applies to people is different from in the west. When you hear people in the film say that the leitis are “useful,” it is praise for their service to others. pbshawaii.org 4 SEASON 8 Additional films featured in PACIFIC HEARTBEAT Season 8: Te Kuhane o te Tupuna (The Spirit of the Ancestors) Saturday, May 4 at 8:00 pm Filmmakers Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu and Dean Hamer A grandfather and a girl travel from Easter Island to London in an attempt to claim back the lost Moai Hoa Haka Nanaia, a lava-rock image of tremendous presence, representing one of the world’s most Wilson: At the same time, the frustrations extraordinary cosmological views. that we tried to capture on film is the leitis’ struggle with something that marginalized communities struggle Corridor Four with everywhere. Whenever leitis, or Saturday, May 11 at 8:00 pm anyone that has been relegated to a certain place, says, “I deserve more,” This film challenges the image of the a backlash occurs. American hero in a heartfelt portrait of 9/11 first-responder Isaac Ho‘opi‘i as he What do you think the U.S. and works to put that traumatic experience Tonga can learn from each other? behind him through the support of his Wong-Kalu: I would like to beg the family. question – why does Tonga have to learn anything from the U.S.? Tongans had a great way of embracing everyone Prison Songs in society. I want Tonga to be more Saturday, May 18 at 8:00 pm discerning about what they import. The people imprisoned in an Australian jail Hamer: One thing the U.S.
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