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Cinema Guild | Release Date: May 20, 2022
Summary: The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. Cane Fire critically examines the island’s history — and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it—through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon’s family, who first immigrated to Kauaʻi from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources—from Banua-Simon’s observational footage, to amateur YouTube travelogues, to epic Hollywood dance sequences — Cane Fire offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story. [Cinema Guild]
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Runtime: 90 min
Rating: Not Rated
Official Site: http://www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/canefire.html
Production: Steady Orbits
Genres: Documentary
Country: US
Languages: English, haw
Director Credit
Anthony Banua-Simon Director
Writer Credit
Anthony Banua-Simon Writer
Michael Vass Writer
Principal Cast Credit
Alfred Castillo Self
Anthony Banua-Simon Self
Bam Bam Bus Driver In Dinocroc Vs. Supergator
Bing Crosby Tony Marvin In Waikiki Wedding
Henry Bermoy Self
Joan Blackman Maile Duval In Blue Hawaii
John Allen Man With Yellow Lei In Seven
Lex Barker Dr. Jim Ransom In Jungle Heat
Mari Blanchard Ann McRae In Jungle Heat
Pierce Brosnan Self
Cast Credit
Beverly Garland Max MacKenzie In Naked Paradise
Chad Deal Self
Glenn Dixon Felix Agung In Jungle Heat
Harold Fong Coyama In Diamond Head
Mike Faye Self
Producer Credit
Anthony Banua-Simon Producer
Michael Vass Producer
Sam Schild Associate Producer
Steve Holmgren Executive Producer