ABOUT THE EVENT
Please join the International Documentary Association (IDA) and Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking on Wednesday, October 6 for the DocuClub HI virtual work-in-progress screening of the feature film I of the Water: The Unwritten Life of Sia Figiel. Following the screening, we will be joined by Director/Producer/Writer Kimberlee Bassford for a discussion moderated by Lauren Kawana, Documentary Filmmaker and Producer.
Live screening of the film begins at 5 pm HT / 8 pm PT, followed by a moderated feedback discussion with the filmmaker in a Zoom meeting - 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm HT / 9:30 pm - 10:30pm PT.
Space is very limited, so please RSVP only if you can commit to attending the entire event and actively participate in the feedback discussion.
If event registration is full, you can add yourself to the waitlist here: https://forms.gle/SUm2BdRwRxGxag276
ASL or live captioning can be requested for the feedback discussion. Please email us at docuclub@documentary.org.
Per the request of the filmmaker, attendees must agree to a non-disclosure agreement.
Sia Figiel was the first Pacific Islander to write about Samoan girls, and her novels broke silence on taboos like sexual abuse, violence and suicide. But while bold and open on paper, Sia privately struggles with myriad pains.
At the heart of her anguish is a secret she harbors—a shame she has carried since she was nine. It will take traversing a continent, an ocean, her own memories and even the specter of death before she is ready to speak this shame and in doing so reframe societal notions of abuse, trauma and healing.
- Runtime92 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Samoan
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorKimberlee Bassford
- ProducerKimberlee Bassford
- EditorJonathan Woodford-Robinson
ABOUT THE EVENT
Please join the International Documentary Association (IDA) and Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking on Wednesday, October 6 for the DocuClub HI virtual work-in-progress screening of the feature film I of the Water: The Unwritten Life of Sia Figiel. Following the screening, we will be joined by Director/Producer/Writer Kimberlee Bassford for a discussion moderated by Lauren Kawana, Documentary Filmmaker and Producer.
Live screening of the film begins at 5 pm HT / 8 pm PT, followed by a moderated feedback discussion with the filmmaker in a Zoom meeting - 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm HT / 9:30 pm - 10:30pm PT.
Space is very limited, so please RSVP only if you can commit to attending the entire event and actively participate in the feedback discussion.
If event registration is full, you can add yourself to the waitlist here: https://forms.gle/SUm2BdRwRxGxag276
ASL or live captioning can be requested for the feedback discussion. Please email us at docuclub@documentary.org.
Per the request of the filmmaker, attendees must agree to a non-disclosure agreement.
Sia Figiel was the first Pacific Islander to write about Samoan girls, and her novels broke silence on taboos like sexual abuse, violence and suicide. But while bold and open on paper, Sia privately struggles with myriad pains.
At the heart of her anguish is a secret she harbors—a shame she has carried since she was nine. It will take traversing a continent, an ocean, her own memories and even the specter of death before she is ready to speak this shame and in doing so reframe societal notions of abuse, trauma and healing.
- Runtime92 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Samoan
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorKimberlee Bassford
- ProducerKimberlee Bassford
- EditorJonathan Woodford-Robinson
