Ku Kanaka / Stand Tall: The Force and Legacy of Kanalu Young

Kū Kanaka/Stand Tall is a film project that profiles the late Kanalu Young—professor, activist, and chanter, who inspired Native Hawaiians to reclaim their sense of worth by the daily practice of Hawaiian language and culture. Quadriplegic from the age of 15, Kanalu saw that daily exercise made him strong. He applied that lesson to living as a Hawaiian man and showed others that work with their hands and hearts—touching the soil in a taro pond field or singing the sounds of chant—would forever change and prepare them for building a Hawaiian life.

Marlene Booth (Producer/Director) is an award-winning independent filmmaker and instructor in film at the University of Hawaiʻi, who worked as a producer in film for public television station WGBH-TV in Boston. She has produced and directed several major documentary films including: Pidgin: The Voice of Hawaiʻi, Yidl in the Middle: Growing Up Jewish in Iowa, The Double Burden: Three Generations of Working Mothers, The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans, Raananah: A World of Our Own, and They Had a Dream: Brown v. Board of Education Twenty-five Years Later.

Event Sponsor
Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus

More Information
(808) 956-3774, biograph@hawaii.edu, http://www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii

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