Open Your Hearts Wide

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By Marion Lyman-Mersereau
Adapted for the screen by Mark Branner and Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak

Film Directed by Jeff Orig
Co-Directed by Mark Branner, Vicky Holt Takamine and Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak
Music Direction by Ina Young
Originated and Produced by Terri Madden
Streaming June 3 – 30, 2021

This comedic ghost story, unpacks a complex part of Hawaiiʻs history. After Captain Cook arrived to the Hawaiian islands on January 18, 1778, it did not take long for more ships to arrive carrying with them not only sailors, but whalers and business men as well. These men brought with them disease that would decimate 71% of the population by 1820. What had once been a self-sufficient, pristine, healthy country was no longer the same.

Forty years later, soon after the Kapu system had been abolished, seven missionary couples arrived, seeking permission to land.

This film covers the early years of the missionaries arrival and explores their contributions and their relationship with the Hawaiian Aliʻi. Based on the recently transcribed Aliʻi Letters and several story circles that took place with missionary descendants between 2018 and 2019, "Open Your Hearts Wide" is almost 4 years in the making.

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