Coconut Zen
April, 2018: The crew of the big red yacht Infinity this month spearheaded the making of a musical ditty about a little slice of life in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, which they described as “the most endangered country in the world due to flooding from climate change.” On the YouTube post, the ‘Sea Read More
Watch Zori
Watch Zori, the ‘big’ short film from Jack Niedenthal’s Microwave Films. It was made in 2013.
Your Human Rights
The Pacific Community Human Rights and Social Development Division asked Microwave Film’s Jack Niedenthal to make a short film on Human Rights. To do this they chose to use children to tell the story using three languages: Marshallese, English and sign language. The children who star in the locally-produced video Your Human Rights — Jimwe Read More
Love Like the Islands
Six9Too Productions/Baka Solomon has just published Love Like the Islands, which on their YouTube channel is described as: “An Island Reggae mix recorded and produced at Six9too Productions Studio in the Marshall Islands located in the heart of the vast Pacific Ocean. Six9too is made up of a growing group of talented producers, artists and Read More
Marshall Islands Anthem
Making a video of youth singing the Marshallese National Anthem has been a long-held dream … Now it’s a reality thanks to six young ladies who kindly performed the Marshall Islands National Anthem for this website. So here’s a big komol tata to Andrea deBrum, Tolynn Lait, Unaisi Kuilamu, Jasmine Langrine, Mine David, and Bosseline Read More
Majuro Taxi Driver
The film team Sea Gypsies, sailing on the big red yacht Infinity, spent many, many months anchored off Majuro in the Marshall Islands whilst doing ship repairs to get ready for sailing the Northwest Passage. During that time, when not scraping rust, gluing sails and generally fixing stuff, the crew met a few eccentric locals Read More
Razz Rocks on Bikini
In May of 2016, almost exactly 70 years after Operation Crossroads detonated an atom bomb over its lagoon, a film crew from Natural History New Zealand, Stanford University researchers, and a traveling electric violinist stepped onto the radioactive shores of Bikini Atoll. The team went to examine the long term fallout from the twenty three Read More
Batmon Goes to Laura
Batmon vs Majuro is showing at Laura High School on Saturday, November 12 (7pm and 9pm). Tickets are $3 and $1. Enjoy! The film premiered on Friday, October 14 at Jitak en in Small Island, Majuro and over the next two days hundreds of people turned up to enjoy the show. Here’s the story line Read More
The Sound of Crickets at Night
“The Sound of Crickets at Night is wonderful! I love how the film intertwines modern day Majuro with Marshallese legend. The music is amazing and the young actress stole my heart. This film is a great vehicle for teaching our current generation the effects of the U.S. bombing of Bikini.” –Rebecca Lathrop, Principal of the Read More
Jilel: The Calling of the Shell
Described as ‘A Global Warming Fairy Tale’, Jilel is a heartwarming, heroic story about a young Marshallese girl named Molina who is confronted for the first time with the idea that her island—her beloved homeland—is vanishing because of the rising seas caused by world-wide global warming. This unusual, thought provoking Marshallese language (with Read More
