Ocean Film Festival - London - 18 October 2022
Ocean Film Festival - London - 18 October 2022
Tue, Oct 18, 19:30
Union Chapel • London
£16.71 - £18.33
* Leitis in Waiting * FILM * ATA | VĀSA Reflections of an Ocean
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An intrepid group of native transgender women fight a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in their South Pacific Kingdom
About this event
Leitis in Waiting is the story 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.
The film follows Joey, a devout Catholic of noble descent, as she organizes an exuberant beauty pageant presided over by a princess, provides shelter and training for a young contestant rejected by her family, and spars with American-financed evangelicals threatening to resurrect colonial-era laws that criminalize the leitis' lives.
With unexpected humor and extraordinary access to the Kingdom's royals and religious leaders, Joeyʻs emotional journey reveals what it means to be different in a society ruled by tradition, and what it takes to be accepted without forsaking culture and tradition.
Leitis in Waiting is an inside story, created by a Polynesian transgender woman who once competed, and won the crown in, Joey's beauty pageant.
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We come from generations of story tellers
We have so many stories, we could fill our ocean many times over
Our stories reflect our complex and beautiful diversity, the things that make us different and the similarities we have with each other, like our ocean, the VĀSA, it is the space between us, that connects us together.
In*ter*is*land Collective are honoured to present ATA | VĀSA – Reflections of an Ocean, a small but carefully curated collection of a few stories, told in the medium of film, that come from the latest generations of storytellers
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This film will be precluded by the short film Back in The Waterhouse. To find out more information about this short film please visit: https://www.interislandcollective.com/events/2019/9/28/ata-vsa-reflections-of-an-ocean-back-in-the-water-house
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Film: Leitis in Waiting
Date: Saturday 28 September
Time: 3.30pm
Director: Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson
Producer: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Protagonist: Joey Mataele
Country: Tonga (2018)
