{"id":233649,"date":"2016-08-04T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=233649"},"modified":"2016-08-04T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:00:23","slug":"film-fest-highlights-saipan-coming-together-soudelor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/film-fest-highlights-saipan-coming-together-soudelor\/","title":{"rendered":"Film fest highlights Saipan coming together after Soudelor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_233651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NMHC-pix-300x169.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the community gathered at GrandVRio Resort to watch short films and documentaries that featured people\u2019s experiences during Typhoon Soudelor. (Joan L. Taitano)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council held its 2nd Annual Humanities Film Festival Tuesday night at GrandVrio Resort Saipan on the eve of the first anniversary of Typhoon Soudelor. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cSoudelor and the Winds of Change in the CNMI.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The festival featured four student films, a narrative film, and a documentary film, which showed the different experiences of people during and after the Category 4 storm.<\/p>\n<p>The student films include: \u201cBlown Away\u201d by Enhao Feng, Tianbo Zhang, and Beibei Chen; \u201cJerico &amp; Casey Presents: Typhoon Soudelor The Documentary\u201d by Jerico Montenejo and Casey Huliganga; \u201cSaipan Strong\u201d by Jobelle Tabuena and \u201cSaipan and the Gales of Typhoon Soudelor\u201d by Angela Felici M. Cruz. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the festival also showed a narrative film entitled \u201cC.O.R.E. Heal Saipan\u201d by Glen Hunter and a documentary film entitled \u201cSoudelor. Saipan Strong.\u201d By Sveta Hunter. The winner of the film festival will be announced this Saturday, Aug. 6, at \u201cSOU\u2019Fest\u201d which will be held at the Garapan Fishing Base.<\/p>\n<p>One message that tied up all these films is the essence of \u201ccommunity.\u201d Saipan is  unique because it\u2019s a place where people have genuine affinity for one another. <\/p>\n<p>The underlying theme of all the films is that during times of trouble, people exert effort, however little or big to ease the pain of others.<strong> (Joan L. Taitano)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council held its 2nd Annual Humanities Film Festival Tuesday night at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,6647,12781,6333],"class_list":["post-233649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-people","tag-saipan-strong","tag-tianbo-zhang","tag-typhoon-soudelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}