New on DVD & Blu-ray: CANE FIRE (2020) - Documentary

Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Product Description: The Hawaiian island of Kauai is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. Cane Fire critically examines the island's history - and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it-through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon's family, who first immigrated to Kauai from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources-from Banua-Simon's observational footage, to amateur YouTube travelogues, to epic Hollywood dance sequences - Cane Fire offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story.

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Director: Anthony Banua-Simon

Starring: John Allen, Bam Bam, Anthony Banua-Simon

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Cinema Guild

Home Video Release Date: February 11, 2025