The Hawaiians: Reflecting Spirit (2006)

This film by noted Hawaii filmmaker Edgy Lee, previewed at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. The Hawaiians is a film of transcendent splendor that defends Native rights and culture, and offers important cultural insights into who the Hawaiians are as a people, their origins, historical challenges and current social conditions, and the revival of spirit of a native people whose identity is intrinsically tied to their Hawaiian homelands. Lee's film is also covered in the book "Progressive Hollywood, A People's Film History of the United States," by Ed Rampell, who places Edgy alongside the leading documentary filmmakers of our time, and considers her "Hawaii's greatest local filmmaker."