Indie Lens Pop-Up 2023-2024
Indie Lens Pop-Up is a neighborhood series that brings people together for film screenings and community-driven conversations. Featuring documentaries seen on the PBS Independent Lens series, Indie Lens Pop-Up draws local residents, leaders, and organizations together to discuss what matters most, from newsworthy topics, to family and relationships.
Make friends, share stories, and join the conversation at an Indie Lens Pop-Up screening hosted by Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking in collaboration with Hawaiʻi Peoples Fund, Hub Coworking Hawaiʻi, and other community organizations.
A Town Called Victoria / By Li Lu and Anthony Pedone
When the local mosque is burned to the ground in an apparent hate crime, the town of Victoria must overcome its age-old political, racial, and economic divides to find a collective way forward. A Town Called Victoria is a Reel South and Independent Lens co-production.
NOVEMBER 30, 2023 Doors open at 5:30 pm Screening starts at 6:00 pm.
Film runs for about one hour followed by a community driven conversation.
Free & Open to the public
Razing Liberty Square / By Katja Esson and Ann Bennett
Liberty Square, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the United States. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold.
FEBRUARY 6, 2024 Doors open at 5:30 pm Screening starts at 6:00 pm.
Film runs for about one hour followed by a community driven conversation.
Free & Open to the public
Breaking the News / By Heather Courtney, Princess Hairston, Chelsea Hernandez, and Diane M Quon
A group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch The 19th*, a news startup bucking the status quo.
MARCH 5, 2024 Doors open at 5:30 pm Screening starts at 6:00 pm.
Film runs for about one hour followed by a community driven conversation.
Free & Open to the public
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s / By Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green
Three people—a political cartoonist, a mother turned boxing coach, and an optician—navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease.
APRIL 9, 2024 Doors open at 5:30 pm Screening starts at 6:00 pm.
Film runs for about one hour followed by a community driven conversation.
Free & Open to the public
The Tuba Thieves / By Alison O’Daniel
Between 2011 and 2013, tubas were stolen from high schools across Southern California. Against this backdrop, hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O'Daniel generates new sensitivity to sound and meaning in an unconventional documentary experience.
MAY 7, 2024 Doors open at 5:30 pm Screening starts at 6:00 pm.
Film runs for about one hour followed by a community driven conversation.
Free & Open to the public