Members of Bainbridge Island's Indipino community reflect on the joy, strength, and love of their mothers (and the racism that kept their heritage secret), and early childhood educators invite filmgoers into their anti-racist classrooms in these films about addressing racism.
*** As of September 16, 2021, the Social Justice Film Festival has made the difficult decision to be online-only this year. ***
This program is available to view VIRTUALLY from OCT. 7–17.
Festival passes grant the most streamlined, flexible viewing experience possible and are an excellent way to support social justice film.
Please see our festival page for information about panel discussions and other opportunities to connect with filmmakers and festivalgoers.
Honor Thy Mother is the untold story of 36 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated in the 1940s to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people. As survivors of Indian Residential Schools, they came, some still in their teens, to pick berries for Japanese American farmers, fell in love and married Filipino immigrants. They settled on the Island to raise their mixed-heritage, (Indigenous mother and Filipino father) Indipino children.
The voices of the Indipino children, now elders, are integral in the storytelling of their mother’s courage and resilience marrying Asian men and risking disenfranchisement from their 19 different tribes. Many Indipino children grew up in homes burdened with their father and mother’s traumatic, collective memory of the Island’s Japanese Americans forced removal after President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942.
http://stourwater.com/films/honor-thy-mother/
For more information about this film contact Lucy Ostrander lucy@stourwater.com
- Year2021
- Runtime31 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorLucy Ostrander
- ProducerLucy Ostrander
Members of Bainbridge Island's Indipino community reflect on the joy, strength, and love of their mothers (and the racism that kept their heritage secret), and early childhood educators invite filmgoers into their anti-racist classrooms in these films about addressing racism.
*** As of September 16, 2021, the Social Justice Film Festival has made the difficult decision to be online-only this year. ***
This program is available to view VIRTUALLY from OCT. 7–17.
Festival passes grant the most streamlined, flexible viewing experience possible and are an excellent way to support social justice film.
Please see our festival page for information about panel discussions and other opportunities to connect with filmmakers and festivalgoers.
Honor Thy Mother is the untold story of 36 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated in the 1940s to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people. As survivors of Indian Residential Schools, they came, some still in their teens, to pick berries for Japanese American farmers, fell in love and married Filipino immigrants. They settled on the Island to raise their mixed-heritage, (Indigenous mother and Filipino father) Indipino children.
The voices of the Indipino children, now elders, are integral in the storytelling of their mother’s courage and resilience marrying Asian men and risking disenfranchisement from their 19 different tribes. Many Indipino children grew up in homes burdened with their father and mother’s traumatic, collective memory of the Island’s Japanese Americans forced removal after President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942.
http://stourwater.com/films/honor-thy-mother/
For more information about this film contact Lucy Ostrander lucy@stourwater.com
- Year2021
- Runtime31 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorLucy Ostrander
- ProducerLucy Ostrander
