Don't miss the Oxford University Pitt Rivers Museum virtual talanoa with De L'Amore Joleen Deflir on July 1. The Leitis in Waiting screening and discussion is part of the museum's 'Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power' exhibition.
Details & registration here.
Come meet Kumu Hina and other Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners, talk story, and watch Leitis in Waiting under the stars in the beautiful Maui Nui Botanical Gardens!
This free event begins at 5, with the film starting at 6:45 pm - ALOHA MAUI PRIDE Festival
Special events across the Pacific Islands continue this week in Kiribati, with a screening & community conversation with Joey Joleen Mataele hosted by Boutokaan, Inaomataia ao Mauriia Binabinaine Association (BIMBA) at the New Zealand High Commission, with support from the International Trans Fund and the Equality and Justice Alliance.
El próximo 21 de enero comienza el quinto Festival internacional de cine y artes indígenas en Wallmapu que se desarrollará en la ciudad de Temuco y localidades cercanas. En esta ocasión, son 49 las películas que hacen parte de la selección oficial, las que representan las voces de pueblos de todo el orbe.
El tema central que propone el festival para poner en diálogo en territorio ancestral mapuche son las diversidades sexo-afectivas o diversidades sexuales ancestrales. Por esto, la mirada plural de los pueblos originarios se hace presente para abordar las experiencias y reflexiones sobre vivir sexualidades y expresiones sexo afectivas no hegemónicas desde la mirada indígena.
Camino al quinto Ficwallmapu y en alianza con el Kolectivo mapuche Rangiñtulewfü, Ficwallmapu presenta Leitis in Waiting (Dean Hamer y Joe Wilson), una de las cinco películas que abordan las diversidades sexo-afectivas desde los pueblos originarios y comunidades afro. La película presenta a una comunidad de mujeres transgéneros que habitan la isla de Tonga y que son conocides como “Leitis”, elles denuncian cómo en la actualidad están sufriendo a propósito de una escalada de fundamentalismo desde sectores religiosos, particularmente la Iglesia Evangélica, y cómo hacen frente a estas violencias.
Te Whainga - A Culture Lab on Civility, presented by the Auckland Museum and the Smithsonian Asia Pacific Center. For screening details see https://tewhainga.com
Presented by Title IX — For more information, contact: Karla Silva-Park, Title IX Coordinator - (808) 235-7468 - karlas@hawaii.edu
Presented by Title IX — For more information, contact: Karla Silva-Park, Title IX Coordinator - (808) 235-7468 - karlas@hawaii.edu
AM/NESIA: Forgotten “Archipelagos” of Oceania - Shorts Program 2 - October 14, 2019
Charlton & Woolwich Free Film Festival is back! Our fourth festival will take place from Friday 6 to Saturday 14 September 2019.
Teariki Productions presents the second year of Te Kūki ‘Āirani Film Festival. Running from 6 August to 10 August, this year's theme is Vaine Toa (Warrior Women). Over 80% of the films showing will have either a leading female cast or is written, directed and/or produced by a female filmmaker.
Special Screening of ‘Leitis in Waiting’
GALA North Texas Annual Film Screening & Fundraiser
Celebrating diversity & enhancing equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer North Texans with the award winning films Lady Eva and Alabama Bound.
Black Maria Film Festival’s Hudson County Movie Tour - Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, NJ - Program 4 - Wednesday June 5, 2019 - 7:00PM - Selected shorts from the Black Maria collection
Celebrate PRIDE at the Palace! with this inspiring documentary by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson & Kumu Hina Wong-Kalu.
Leitis in Waiting is a raw yet tender portrait of Joey Mataele and the Tonga leitis, an intrepid group of native transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in their South Pacific Kingdom.
Doors will open 30 minutes prior to each showing. Tickets are $8.50 General and $7.50 for Seniors & Students. Tickets available now at the Box Office and ONLINE!
Celebrate PRIDE at the Palace! with this inspiring documentary by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson & Kumu Hina Wong-Kalu.
Leitis in Waiting is a raw yet tender portrait of Joey Mataele and the Tonga leitis, an intrepid group of native transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in their South Pacific Kingdom.
Doors will open 30 minutes prior to each showing. Tickets are $8.50 General and $7.50 for Seniors & Students. Tickets available now at the Box Office and ONLINE!
The Isabelle Lake Memorial Lecture is held in Perth each year on May 17th, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (IDAHoBIT). This year the lecture will be given by Tongan transgender woman Jolene Mataele. Mataele has recently featured in the documentary Leitis In Waiting, a film that follows a group of transgender women fighting for their place in the island kingdom.
Join Oakland Museum of California and the Center for Asian American Media Festival (CAAMFest) for the Oakland premiere of the award winning documentary, Leitis in Waiting. This film tells the story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in their South Pacific Kingdom.
FREE PROGRAM — The story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of native transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism in their South Pacific Kingdom. Their emotional journey reveals what it means to be different in a society ruled by tradition.
Film Q&A - Exploring intersections between LGBTIQ, Climate Change, & the Pacific.
CSM 10th Annual Asian Pacific American Film Festival - Fri May 03, 2019 - Starts at 5:30 pm - Sponsored by the CSM Ethnic Studies Department and the Philosophy and Psychology Departments.
Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) presents PIC EXCHANGE in partnership with the Honolulu Museum of Art, Doris Duke Theatre. PIC EXCHANGE is a community engagement screening series that brings community members together in an inclusive way to share, learn, discuss and get involved with issues that are pertinent to the Pacific.
On May 2, we're offering a FREE screening Leitis in Waiting, a story of Tonga's evolving approach to gender fluidity through a character-driven portrait of the most prominent leiti in the Kingdom, Joey Joleen Mataele, a devout Catholic of royal descent. The film will be followed by a panel discussion.
Doors open at 6:30pm
Screening begins at 7:00pm
Panel discussion begins at 8:00pm
Skyline College of San Bruno offers two screenings of Leitis in Waiting, one from 11AM to 1PM and another from 2PM to 4PM. The public is welcome, and we are providing free snacks and drinks. Immediately following the screening at 11AM to 1PM, the campus Queer and Gender Alliance club is hosting a discussion for our students regarding LGBTQ+ identity.
TranScreen is Amsterdam’s Transgender and Gender Diverse Film Festival 2019 is proud to present the Netherlands premiere screening of Leitis in Waiting and the 2019 festival launch.
An official side-event of the 18th Session of the UN Forum on Indigenous Issues, Cine, Memoria y Resistencia is a collaboration between Indigenous organizations from across the Americas including: CLACPI (Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas), IsumaTV, Wapikoni and NAISG (Native American & Indigenous Student Group at NYU).
Celebrate the latest in Native film at the Native Cinema Showcase in New York. Featuring three days of screenings, the showcase provides a unique forum to engage with Native filmmakers from across the Americas.
A combination of full-length features and shorts, dramas and music videos, the films represent contemporary perspectives and themes of Indigenous people as they experience the world. All screenings are free, and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. All programs are subject to change. The full schedule is available on the museum’s website.
The Sebastopol Center for the Arts' annual award-winning Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is a 4-day celebration of non-fiction film. The festival will feature extraordinary documentaries to be shown at different venues in historic downtown Sebastopol, with filmmakers and subjects in attendance from far and abroad and as close as Sebastopol.
C’est l’histoire de Joey Mataele et des leitis Tonga, groupe transgenres qui luttent contre la montée du fondamentalisme religieux et de l’intolérance dans leur royaume. Plein d’humour imprévu, ce voyage sensible dévoile ce que veut dire être différent dans une société gouvernée par la tradition, et ce que coûte d’être accepté sans renoncer à ce que vous êtes.
23 mars 2019 - 15:30 - Palais des congrès
NAU MAI KI MĀORILAND — Welcome to Māoriland Film Festival, Aotearoa’s International Indigenous Film Festival. Each March, MFF welcomes Indigenous filmmakers from around the world to Ōtaki to celebrate Indigenous creativity and storytelling in film.
The precarious role of queer people in traditional Tongan society is threatened by a rising tide of neo-colonial intolerance.
Friday 22 March 2019 20:30 - NFT3 - Sold out!
Saturday 23 March 2019 11:45 - Studio - Sold out!
Sunday 31 March 2019 19:40 - Studio
BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival offers a vibrant and precious space for debate, compassion, community and empowerment. In a world where many people fear and loathe difference, audiences and filmmakers at BFI Flare defiantly assert that love is a human right. We celebrate sexual and gender diversity – all this, while watching great films from around the globe.
This year’s BFI Flare cover art from creative agency Studio Moross goes to the heart of that celebration of diversity within the LGBTQ+ community. We wanted it to stimulate dialogue, but also be clean and stylish; to be sexy and promote body-positivity – asserting people’s right to love their bodies and be loved, whether or not they conform to gender norms. And we wanted it to celebrate queer culture now and into the future. We’re so excited to share the results.