PHL Film “Filipina” Opens Women of Wonders Film Fest in Honolulu
Apolonia Agonoy Stice (left), the star of the short film, "Filipina", directed and produced by Filipino American filmmaker Maribel Apuya (right), at the opening of the Women of Wonders Film Festival in Honolulu. Photo credits: Maribel Apuya
07 March 2018 HONOLULU – “Filipina”, a fifteen-minute documentary which portrays the story of Apolonia Agonoy Stice, a second-generation Filipino American who grew up in the pineapple plantation town of Lanai, Hawaii in the 1940s,opened the 5th Annual Women of Wonders (WOW) Film Festival on March 01 at the Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theater, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The screening of “Filipina” was attended by members of the Filipino American community, Hawaii filmmakers, writers and creative media art enthusiasts. The Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu was represented by Consul Joyleen E. Santos at the event.
The WOW Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Hawaii Women in Filmmaking, a nonprofit organization committed to achieving gender equity in filmmaking and other creative media arts, highlights and celebrates the lives and accomplishments of women around the world, and in Hawaii. END
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