Los Angeles PREMIERE
KIN - Dudi & Jojo
Director: Tumeli Tuqota
Produced by Outer Urban Projects, directed and animated by Tumeli Tuqota, KIN – Dudi & Jojo is the first in the KIN film series.
This film sees iTaukei Fijian-Australian vocalists and twin sisters Ruci (Dudi) Kaisila and Joanne (Jojo) Kaisila debut as writers and filmmakers, exploring their deeply personal insights into Fiji, its culture, the diaspora and their lives as burgeoning cultural custodians and singers in a Gospel family.
A story of ancestral consciousness told in animation and live action.
KIN is a collection of poetic documentaries produced by Outer Urban Projects that reveal the profound musical families and subcultures within Naarm/Melbourne’s outer northern diasporic communities.
CAST & CREDITS
Director
Tumeli Tuqota
Writer
Tumeli Tuqota, Ruci Kaisila, Joanne Kaisila
Producer
Kate Gillick, Irine Vela
Director Statement
“As a Fijian Filmmaker with a strong interest in Pacific indigenous stories, Ruci and Joanne Kaisila’s experience of growing up in Australia while maintaining their cultural connection to Fiji appealed to me. By drawing on my affinity with animation and indigenous storytelling, we were able to portray their story with a mix of live action depictions of their cultural Fijian practice and animated flashbacks to past family stories that helped inform them as Fijians today. My hope is that this Film will help other indigenous people feel seen as they struggle with questions of identity in an ever increasingly westernised world.”
DIRECTORS BIO
Tumeli Tuqota is an emerging iTaukei Fijian film maker – He hails from Gasauva, Cakaudrove, Fiji with maternal links to Ha’a’ai, Tonga. He has fifteen years of experience in graphic design and motion design, 2D & 3D animation, filmmaking, and stick figure drawing. His film Soli Bula, an animated indigenous short film connected to Tumeli’s own heritage, looks at an alternate reality where Fiji tradition and culture was never eroded by colonialism. This is Tumeli’s first collaboration with Outer Urban Projects.
Showtimes
Friday, November 13
Screening: 2:00 pm
In Person
Post Screening Guests: —
Once Purchased
your name will be at ‘Will Call’
AMC The Grove 14
189 The Grove Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Parking
At The Theatre
