For you local Legs, please mark your calendars and set your Tivo for Saturday, September 22nd at 5:30pm. The HPU Documentary "Peggy with Love" will be airing on KHNL (that's channel 8 on digital cable). They will be showing the documentary and then a roundtable discussion moderated by Howard Dashefsky. The roundtable participants are HPU film instructor Jacque Langley, Cory Lee from Healthcare Alternatives, a Hospice nurse, and myself!
The video won an International Award. For more about the documentary and the award it won, read the article below:
HPU Student Video on Artist Peggy Chun Wins International Award
The Hawai‘i Pacific University student-produced video, “Peggy With Love,” has received national recognition.
Jacqueline Langley, HPU assistant professor of communication, and Mark Nitta, HPU Communication Video Lab manager, along with a team of Hawai‘i Pacific students, have won a “Gold” Aurora Award. This prestigious award, judged by industry professionals, recognizes individuals in the film and video industries in the United States and abroad who have achieved the ability to captivate their audiences with the displays produced from their own creative forces.
“Peggy With Love” is a love letter from the famed Hawai‘i watercolor artist Peggy Chun, who is fully paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, to herself. The video explores Chun’s journey toward death. In the documentary, Chun converses with world-renowned death and dying expert Dr. N. Michael Murphy, who founded a pioneering hospice in Albany, New York. It is a powerful documentation of Chun confronting death, herself, her life, and those she loves.
“Peggy Chun is our teacher because her message is universal – someday we must all confront our deaths,” said Langley.
Hawai‘i Pacific University’s Advanced Video Production has been recognized numerous times in recent years, including the 2006 Association of Partners for Public Lands (APPL) Media & Partnership Award and the 2005 International Communicator Crystal Award for “First Shot: The Secret Submarine Attack on Pearl Harbor.” The video premiered at the USS Arizona Memorial and was broadcast on KFVE-TV, Dec. 7, 2005, the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Other HPU Advanced Video Production award-winning videos include “50 Years of Rebuilding Lives Together” for the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, “‘Ohana” for Child and Family Services, and “Kaho‘olawe: Ka Ha o ko makou mau Kupuna (The Breath of our Ancestors),” which won the 2002 Hawai‘i International Film Festival (HIFF) Blockbuster Audience Award for Best Short Film.
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