Microwave Films of the Marshall Islands
in the Media

Jack Niedenthal, President of Microwave Films, 2023 interview with the University of Guam film class instructed by Don Rubinstein
on You Tube

INTERVIEW WITH JACK NIEDENTHAL ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
regarding the film JILEL NPR Jilel.mp3

August 2015

Jack Niedenthal of Microwave Films being interviewed on BBC Newsnight about the Castaway Story that we filmed for CNN in February of 2014.
Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro of Microwave Films provided CNN with exclusive video coverage of the story.

Pacific Daily News Announcement of
2013 Guam International Film Festival winners 9/30/13
including ZORI as the winner of the Audience Choice Award.

October 2013 interview with Jack Niedenthal by the Micronesian activist organization,
The Fourth Branch

ZORI wins Audience Choice Award at the 2013 Guam International Film Festival
Marshall Islands Journal, 10-4-13

Golden Honu Award Winners announced: The Sound of Crickets at Night wins Best Family Feature Film.

Article about The Sound of Crickets at Night in Cinema Without Borders, June 28, 2013

Marshall Islands Journal article of 6/29/13 about ZORI's selection for the 33rd
Annual Hawaii International Film Festival from October 10-20.

Article about The Sound of Crickets at Night on the Guam International Film Festival website

Article about Microwave Films on the Business Superstar website

Article on the National Peace Corps Association website about Microwave Films. May 2013

Interview on March 28, 2013 with Jack Niedenthal on Radio Australia
regarding The Sound of Crickets at Night showing at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival

Yokwe.net story about LA Asian Pacific Film Festival

THE SOUND OF CRICKETS AT NIGHT was named
on one of independent film website Film Threat's lists as a Top Film of 2012
Marshall Islands-based filmmakers Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro recall the subtle cinematic style of Satyajit Ray
with a provocative and moving drama that weaves three stories of loss and rue into a memorable work of art.

Misty Layne, Rogue Cinema, December 2012
Read entire review

Film Threat, October 2012
Read REVIEW of The Sound of Crickets at Night

Of the nearly 200 films from 27 countries that were submitted to the Guam International Film Festival, only 53 films
were chosen for last weekend’s festival. These films put hundreds of actors and actresses from all
over the world into the spotlight at the Guam festival. From all of these films, Guam festival
organizers honored Salome Fakatou, a 10-year-old Bikinian girl from the Marshall Islands, with the
Grand Jury Award for Achievement in Acting for her
starring role in Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ (The Sound of Crickets at Night).

-Marshall Islands Journal, October 4, 2012 (read full article)

Interview with Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro about Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ (The Sound of Crickets at Night)
September 22, 2012.

The new film by Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro, The Sound of Crickets at Night, marks a new chapter in the history of Marshallese film.
This meditation on loss and emotional deprivation represents the first attempt to articulate on the screen the pain the Marshallese have endured
for generations and continue to endure in the 21^st century. It is also a movie that is both beautifully imagined and sensitively composed:
attributes that make it the first cinematic poem to come out of the Marshall Islands,
and the single most ambitious film originating in this country to date...
What both domestic and foreign audiences will  come to recognize by the end of this film is
that the history of Marshallese exile is not merely history; it is also the present.

-Peter Sutoris, Filmmaker (The Undiscovered Country), August 2012
Read full review

Interview with Co-director, Co-producer of Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ (The Sound of Crickets at Night)
Jack Niedenthal on Radio Australia, August 24, 2012 (18 minutes)

Follow-up interview with Jack Niedenthal on Radio Australia, August 28, 2012 (5 minutes)

Interview with Co-director, Co-producer of Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ (The Sound of Crickets at Night)
Jack Niedenthal on Radio New Zealand, August 2, 2012

Follow-up interview with Co-director, Co-producer of Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ (The Sound of Crickets at Night)
Jack Niedenthal on Radio New Zealand, August 26, 2012

Lañinbwil's Gift chosen as a film for
the Guam Humanities Series in February of 2012

Interview with Directors/Producers Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro
Guam International Film Festival Website, September 17, 2011

MARSHALLS FILM FINALIST AT GUAM FILM FESTIVAL
Laninbwil’s Gift earlier won at Vancouver festival
-Pacific Islands Report, September 2011

Marshalls Film Named Finalist in Guam Festival
- The Marianas Variety, September 2011

Over 100 films to be featured in Guam Int’l Film Festival
- The Marianas Variety, September 2011

"The drive-by images that flicker through the film capture downtown Majuro in its rough, sometimes
bombed-out looking urban ugliness of patchwork fences and half-built concrete structures.
The taunting of a homeless boy by kids and adults presents a mirror of how
Marshallese society has changed from the old days when
the phrase ‘jouj eo, mour eo’ (kindness is life) governed people’s
lives in this rapidly changing western Pacific nation."
-The Marianas Variety, June 2011
(read full review "Thousands Flock to View New Marshalls Film")

Radio Australia interview with Jack Niedenthal
Lañinbwil’s Gift is a new feature film in the Marshallese language with English subtitles
that premiered in Majuro on 21 May. It has a fabulous plot featuring characters from Marshallese mythology,
and it tells the story of the story of Jacob, an old island man with a complicated secret.
Screenwriter and co-director Jack Niedenthal joined Heather Jarvis to talk about the storyline,
how the film came together and the importance of Marshall Islanders
seeing their own language and experiences reflected on film.

Presenter: Heather Jarvis, ABC News (May 2011)

“Yokwe Bartowe...can sincerely lay claim to being among the most original cinematic endeavors
to emerge in quite some time... it slam dunks with spirit and personality...
If the film is missing the razzmatazz of the CGI-heavy productions from Hollywood,
it more than compensates with the raw, visceral power one associates from folk art –
it throbs with a genuine sense of emotion and honesty, demanding that its voice be heard and respected.
Hopefully, Yokwe Bartowe will find its way around the world...
This is an extraordinary work that deserves to be seen!"

-Phil Hall, Film Threat, February 25, 2010 (read entire review)

Film Threat Interview in March of 2010 with Jack Niedenthal
regarding making movies in the Marshall Islands.

Radio Australia Radio Program (mp3)
with interviews regarding the film, Ña Noniep, March 3, 2009

Radio Australia Interview (11 minutes) with Jack Niedenthal about Yokwe Bartowe

Radio New Zealand (mp3) interview re Ña Noniep, March 13, 2009
Radio New Zealand interview with Jack Niedenthal about Yokwe Bartowe, January 25, 2010

Marianas Variety Review of Ña Noniep,
March 16, 2009

-Marianas Variety, March 5, 2010 read article

Yokwe Online,
Marshallese News Website, Article about Ña Noniep,
February 21, 2009
Yokwe online forum about Ña Noniep

The Marshall Islands Journal,
Marshallese Newspaper article re Ña Noniep,
April 3, 2009

Read the February 5, 2010 story "Bartowe Blockbuster" in the Journal in PDF about
Yokwe Bartowe .

Rimajol.com
Marshallese News Website, Article
and forum about Ña Noniep, March 15, 2009

Noniep DVDs fly off the shelves of RMI stores