Welcome to
Microwave Films of the Marshall Islands
Microwave Films
Event
|
The Batkid of Monkubok
WEBSITE, CLICK LOGO:
"Batmon vs Majuro... This is a piece of
fan filmmaking from a community of enthusiastic
filmmakers from the Marshall Islands...this film is a great
introduction
to the Marshall Islands and its people... "
-Alan Ng, Film Threat Independent Film Reviews,
September, 2017
|
Microwave Films newest Marshallese feature film!  |
Charming and heartwarming... Jilel is a
sweet story that showcases the beauty
and talents of the Marshall Islands and it’s people... it is
a fairy tale about
the importance of knowledge, respect and preservation...
-Cinema Schinema Independent Film Reviews, May 2015
 CLICK shell to go to website |
CLICK shell to see Jilel trailer |
 |
|
Completed in the Summer of 2013:
On an island a flip flop is a terrible thing to
lose
A short film in the Marshallese language
Directed and produced by Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro
Original screenplay by Jack Niedenthal
Filmed entirely in the Marshall Islands on Majuro Atoll
9 minutes
"Refreshing... Downright charming and
sweet..."
-Misty Layne, Rogue Cinema, August 2013 (full
review)
"ZORI... can melt any heart..."
-Phil Hall, Film Threat, October 2013 (full review)
September of 2012 release:
Ainikien
Jidjid ilo Boñ
(The Sound of Crickets at Night)
An elderly nuclear survivor from Bikini Atoll
summons a mysterious ancient deity to help reunite his
family
A full-length feature film in the Marshallese
language
Directed and produced by Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro
Original screenplay by Jack Niedenthal
Filmed entirely in the Marshall Islands on Majuro Atoll and
Bikini Atoll
1 hour 20 minutes
"This small and remarkable film is one
of the year’s
most engaging under-the-radar gems."
-Phil Hall, Film Threat, October 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 21st
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...
-Peter Sutoris, Filmmaker (The Undiscovered Country), August
2012
May
2011 Release: Lañinbwil's
Gift
Lañinbwil's Gift Opening Night, May 21, 2011 Marshall
Islands Resort:
"This movie...is alternately hilarious and spooky,
it also offers a deeper message for those
interested in a challenge to their thinking about life in
the Marshall Islands these days...
Nearly a thousand people crowded four shows Saturday —
the organizers had to add the fourth, 10 pm showing to
accommodate the huge turnout."
—The Marshall Islands Journal, May 27, 2011
Chosen
"Best of Festival" at the 2011 Guam International Film
Festival
out of 130 films from 24 countries
January 2010 Release: Yokwe Bartowe
"Yokwe
Bartowe must be the most honest film I have ever seen.
Raw, down-to-earth and true to reality,
it becomes a statement about the Marshallese identity:
humble, yet charming; troubled,
yet smiling; magical, yet believable... Many Hollywood
directors indeed have a lot to learn
from Niedenthal, Chutaro and their crew."
-Peter Sutoris, Filmmaker
March 2009 Release: Ña Noniep
"It was thrilling to see a film that was
conceptualized, written, cast, filmed and edited in the
Marshall Islands
with a Marshallese cast and spoken mainly in Marshallese
language with English subtitles...
Marshallese kids can now see that their lives and reality are
worthy of exploration in film..."
--Dartmouth College Professor Andrew Garrod
