Morning Comes So Soon
“The film grabs you and before you know it you’re on a roller coaster ride…Excitement and fun turns to crisis, calamity and tears…”
Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal
High school seniors Ting Yu Lin and James Bing III star in Morning Comes So Soon.
Made in 2008, Morning Comes So Soon is a love story about a Marshallese boy and a Chinese girl. It was the first feature film made in the Marshall Islands.
The movie was produced by a pair of American volunteer high school teachers at Majuro’s Catholic Assumption High School, who worked with a local peer education group with a grant from UNESCO.
The directors, Aaron Condon and Mike Cruz, cast local people in the film about teens grappling with racism and suicide. The film stars high school seniors Ting Yu Lin and James Bing III. The movie’s premiere was held at the International Convention Center and then ran for weeks at the K&K Theater, where it was a huge hit, with thousands of people packing the cinema each day.
The film deals with social pressures resulting from Chinese immigration to Majuro in late 1990s. Morning Comes So Soon had its international premier at the first Pacific Islands Film Festival at Honolulu’s Design Center on 12 July 08, and is available on DVD via mail order from the Bikini Atoll Online Store (www.bikiniatoll.com).
“A milestone production about not only racism but the struggles of young people to cope with their problems in urban Majuro…”
Pacific Magazine
