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2007 Kalaupapa - Heaven

Director: Paul Cox

Producer: Mark Patterson

Co-Investors: SA Film Corporation
 
20 minutes by plane from modern Honolulu is Kalaupapa, a peninsula on the island of Molokai. With its swaying palms, unspoiled beaches and stunning mountains this is a paradise on earth, with a history from hell. Kalaupapa is a leper colony. In 1998 Paul Cox was permitted by the patients to make a biopic of their hero Father Damien. Now he has been invited to return to the island and make a documentary focusing on the last remaining leprosy patients of the island. Using interviews, home movies, photographs and music, this will be a film about survival and the celebration of life in the face of adversity.

 

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