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About

In the Hawaiian language, hewa means “wrong” and noho means “to occupy”. This documentary is a contemporary look at Hawaiian people, politics and resistance in the face of their systematic erasure under U.S. laws, economy, militarism, and real estate speculation. It is a raw, unscripted story that makes critical links between seemingly unrelated industries, and is told from the perspective of Hawaiians.

Noho Hewa is the first feature length film produced by Hawaiian journalist and filmmaker Anne Keala Kelly, who directed, shot and edited the film over the course of six years.

In 2008 Noho Hewa won the Hawaii International Film Festival’s Award For Best Documentary.

About The Filmmaker

Anne Keala Kelly is a Hawaiian journalist and filmmaker reporting on politics, culture, the environment and indigenous peoples. She has filed stories from Hawaii, where she lives, as well as Geneva and Katmandu. Keala’s reports air regularly on the Pacifica Network’s Free Speech Radio News, her print journalism has appeared in The Nation, Indian Country Today, The Honolulu Weekly, and other publications.  Her news footage has been featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Democracy Now! and in September 2008 Keala co-produced “The Other Hawaii” for Al Jazeera. She has an MFA in Directing from UCLA.

Facts about the Military in Hawai’i

  • Hawai’i is one of the most militarized groups of islands in the world.
  • The military controls over 20% of all land in the Hawaiian Island chain.
  • The military population makes up over 11% of the state of Hawai’i, as opposed to less than 1% of the U.S. population.
  • The U.S. Army secretly tested chemical, biological, and deadly nerve gas agents in Hawai’i watershed/forest reserve areas, facts repeatedly denied but later confirmed.
  • Currently 7.1 million live rounds of various weapons are fired annually on sacred Hawaiian lands at the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) on the Big Island of Hawai’i.
  • More than 400 square miles (250,000 acres) on Hawai’i Island may contain live arms and other military toxins and should be considered military hazard areas.
  • In 1995, there were 405 toxic sites in 122 military facilities statewide.