We are proud to serve as a station partner and mentor for CHamoru: A Lost Language, part of the PBS documentary short film series Homegrown: A Part Of/Apart From. This series – produced by Firelight Media, Pacific Islanders In Communications,Black Public Media&Latino Public Broadcasting – is the first to bring together the perspectives of local residents of the U.S. territories and Hawai’i, exploring issues of cultural identity, sovereignty, and agency.

CHamoru: A Lost Language

Follow filmmaker Brian Muña as he seeks to reconnect with CHamoru, the language native to the people of Guam and elders in his family. In this search for self-identity, he examines his culturally American upbringing and the importance of passing on the language to his sons. “CHamoru: A Lost Language” is now streaming. #Homegrown

PROGRAM AFFILIATION, HOMEGROWN: A Part Of/Apart From
COHORT YEAR: 2024

About the Filmmaker

Brian Muña, Guam Native, is an established filmmaker on island with eight years of experience in the industry. His filmmaking credits also include commercial work for corporations on island and has also worked abroad for projects filmed in Japan and Taiwan for Illest and had volunteered for a short-form documentary filmed in the Philippines (2017) aimed to support a non-profit organization. 

Under his company, Brian Muña Films, he has directed, written, filmed and produced numerous short films and music videos and has collaborated with other local artists, creatives and filmmakers alike.In 2015, Brian wrote, co-directed, and produced the short film Luther — An agent is captured eight years after going rogue. His interrogation dissects parts of his past, which lead to an impending revelation — an official selection at the 2015 Guam International Film Festival (GIFF) and received the award for Best Made in the Marianas. Another film he directed, Madam (2015) — A (fiction) film that depicts the harsh world of human sex trafficking in a non-relenting plight— was also screened and nominated alongside Luther at the GIFF.