Nancy Bannick: Saving Honolulu's Chinatown

Nancy Bannick: Saving Honolulu’s Chinatown is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight to preserve the neighborhoods they love.

By Historic Hawai‘i Foundation

Documentary film by filmmaker Robin Lung

Nancy Bannick: Saving Honolulu's Chinatown (2022-01-15) by Filmmaker Robin LungHistoric Hawai‘i Foundation

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Robin Lung is a 4th generation Chinese American from Hawai‘i with an 18-year history of bringing untold minority and women’s stories to film. Lung made her directorial debut with Washington Place: Hawai‘i’s First Home, a 30-minute documentary for PBS Hawai‘i about the legacy of Hawaiʻi’s Queen Lili‘uokalani and her personal home. She was the associate producer for the national PBS documentary Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, and producer/director of the feature documentary Finding KUKAN, which was selected to be broadcast nationally on PBS World’s America ReFramed series and has won multiple awards at film festivals across America. Lung produced and directed the "Nancy Bannick Photographic Slide Collection" in 2021 and "Nancy Bannick: Saving Honolulu's Chinatown" in 2022.

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