This Is The Way We Rise
LAND
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12m
Sundance Film Festival
Centering protests, poetry, and the fight for Indigenous sovereignty, slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is heralded as a voice for the next generation of Native Hawaiians as her calling to protect sacred sites atop Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, reinvigorates her art.
USA - 2021 - 12m 16s
Directed By: Ciara Lacey
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