{"id":103021,"date":"2019-09-11T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T00:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=103021"},"modified":"2019-09-11T14:14:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T00:14:36","slug":"short-film-pbs-online-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/11\/short-film-pbs-online-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> alum\u2019s short film picked as PBS Online Film Festival favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Behind the scenes of “The Moon and the Night”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Academy for Creative Media<\/a> (ACM<\/abbr>) alumna Erin Lau<\/strong>\u2019s short-film The Moon and the Night<\/em><\/a> was selected as the favorite film Juried Prize winner of the 2019 PBS<\/abbr> Online Film Festival<\/a> by a panel of eight jury members. Lau is currently working in Los Angeles as a producer-director for Jubilee Media, as well as writing and directing her own projects. <\/p>\n

The PBS<\/abbr> Online Film Festival features 25 short-form independent films. It is part of a multi-platform initiative to increase the reach and visibility of independent filmmakers, and to provide a showcase for diverse storytelling that both inspires and engages. <\/p>\n

“The Moon and the Night” is set in rural Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, where a Native Hawaiian girl must confront her father after he enters her beloved pet in a dogfight. The film explores the cultural and socio-economic strife that burdens many communities in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, but at its heart, it is a coming-of-age tale of a young woman who must make the difficult realization that to save her family, she must stand on her own. Justin Omori<\/strong>, 2014 ACM<\/abbr> graduate, was also a writer for this dramatic short film. <\/p>\n

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“I\u2019ve only reached this point in my filmmaking career because of the lessons the UH<\/abbr> Academy for Creative Media instilled in me, which is to put my focus on embracing who I am and what I care about then translating that into the work,” said Lau. “To this day I still reach out to my ACM<\/abbr> professors for feedback and guidance on my narrative projects. They\u2019ve had a huge impact on how I\u2019ve grown as a filmmaker and person.”<\/p>\n

Lau graduated from ACM<\/abbr> in 2015. As an ACM<\/abbr> major, she made a number of award-winning narrative and documentary short films that screened at numerous international film festivals around the world. <\/p>\n

She took part twice in ACM<\/abbr>\u2019s SMART<\/abbr> Exchange in Shanghai. In 2013 her script for Little Girl\u2019s War Cry<\/em> was selected out of more than 2,000 scripts for the Ambassador for Peace Film Award in the Film Raro Film Makers Paradise Challenge, which allowed her to travel to the Cook Islands to shoot the film. Later that year the film won the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> International Film Festival\u2019s Eurocinema Best Student Film Award.<\/p>\n

Her ultimate dream is that her work will help to empower and inspire minority and female voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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