LIHUE To celebrate October as Filipino American History Month, the Kauai Philippine Cultural Center and Kukui Grove Center co-host the Garden Island Film Festival.
LIHUE — To celebrate October as Filipino American History Month, the Kauai Philippine Cultural Center and Kukui Grove Center co-host the Garden Island Film Festival.
The GIFF is screening two films about Filipinos by Kauai filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo at Kukui Grove Center starting at 6 tonight.
• 6 p.m. “An Untold Triumph: America’s Filipino Soldiers” The story of the 1st and 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments, U.S. Army (2006, 82 minutes).
During World War II, 7,000 Filipino Americans volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and helped liberate their homeland from Japanese occupation. Director Noel M. Izon captures their stories through the voices of the veterans themselves.
• 7:30 p.m. “Remember the Boys, A Story of Hawaii Filipino Soldiers in World War II” (2007, 30 minutes)
“Remember the Boys” poignantly captures the inspiring, true story of a chaplain to his war buddies. Born in Hawaii, Domingo Los Banos was a U.S. World War II soldier who went to war in the Philippines as a teenager with some 50 other teenagers of Filipino ancestry from Hawaii.
Both showings are free.
