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A film about the first Filipino American Grammy winner will headline the “Aloha Meets Mabuhay” screening at Kailua Cinemas in Hawaii on Sept. 19, alongside another story highlighting the Fil-Am experience.
Rick Quan’s “Along Comes Larry, the Larry Ramos story” honors Fil-Am musician Larry Ramos, the first Asian American Grammy winner.
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The event will also feature “Sira,” a drama short about a survivor of domestic violence, written by Angelica Yulo-Batin Quinn.
For Quinn, the subject matter is personal.
“I was a domestic violence survivor as a child,” she shares. “My father had been critically ill and hospitalized. He was a quiet man who hid his illness, and I only learned how sick he was in that hospital room.”
She asks the difficult question, “Can I forgive him to help care for him?”
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The event is sponsored by the Hawaii-based Filipino Association of University Women (FAUW), a nonprofit dedicated to educating the public about Filipino values, arts and culture.
“Aloha Meets Mabuhay” is open to the public. Tickets to the event are available at the Kailua Cinemas website.
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