Indie Lens Pop-Up 2025
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.
Doors open at 5:30 pm
Screening starts at 6:00 pm followed by community-driven Q&A.
February 4: Bike Vessel / By Eric D. Seals, Donnie Seals Jr., and Resita Cox
Knowing his dad miraculously recovered from three open-heart surgeries after discovering a passion for cycling, filmmaker Eric D. Seals proposes an ambitious idea: Bike together from St. Louis to Chicago. 350 miles. 4 days. On their journey, the two push each other as they find a deeper connection and a renewed appreciation of their quests for their own health and to reimagine Black health. Screening followed by Q&A with Director Eric Seals.
March 4: Home Court / By Erica Tanamachi, Jenn Lee Smith, and Brandon Soun
Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up. As she overcomes injury as well as racial and class differences between her home and private school worlds, in peer groups, and against rival schools, Ashley strives to become her own person and leave a legacy behind. Screening followed by Q&A with Director Erica Tanamachi.
April 1: We Want the Funk / By Stanley Nelson
Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
May 6: Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's / By A. Moot-Levin, L. Green, D. Alvara
Alzheimer’s disease transforms the lives of three families who confront the challenges of becoming primary caregivers.
June 3: Free for All: The Public Library / By Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor
Free for All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.