2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12,
2025Lansing,
MI
VAI
*CLOSING NIGHT FEATURE // MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Brought to you in partnership with the MSU Womxn of Color Initiative.
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DATE
Sunday, April 21, 2019 -
TIME
7:00 PM -
VENUE
The Fledge Lansing -
TICKETS
$5
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VAI
VAI
A film about female empowerment that spans the breadth of the Pacific telling the story of one woman’s life in eight separate moments from the perspective of eight different pacific island cultures.
‘Vai’ is a portmanteau feature film made by 9 female Pacific filmmakers, filmed in 7 different Pacific countries: Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kuki Airani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It is about the journey of empowerment through culture over the lifetime of one woman, Vai, played by a different indigenous actress in each of the Pacific countries. In each of these Pacific nations ‘vai’ means water.
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DIRECTOR
Nicole Whippy, ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Matasila Freshwater, Amberley Jo Aumua, Mīria George, Marina Alofagia McCartney, Dianna Fuemana, Becs Arahanga -
YEAR
2019 -
RUNTIME
90 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
Multiple, English Subtitles -
COUNTRY
Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kuki Airani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Check out other upcoming events
- Sun, April 21 5:00 PM
- REACH Studio Art Center
- Sun, April 21 2:30 PM
- REACH Studio Art Center
- Sun, April 21 12:15 PM
- REACH Studio Art Center
- Sun, April 21 1:00 PM
- The Robin Theatre
- Sun, April 21 12:15 PM
- The Fledge Lansing
- Sun, April 21 7:00 PM
- Mac’s Bar