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- Alienated by friends and family for her lack of ambition, 29-year-old Misha finds a dangerous acceptance in a bright 18-year-old athlete who mistakes her for a fellow student.
- When professional circus clown Lo rage-dumps her performing partner moments before a packed show, she finds herself improvising a solo act with a tennis racket.
- Wahine is the Hawaiian word for women, and the Reel Wahine of Hawai'i film series features stories about the creative challenges and triumphs of Hawai'i women filmmakers. Produced and created by all-women directors, camera crews, writers and editors, these six short portraits reveal untold stories of both trailblazing and emerging artists who preserve Hawai'i history and culture through film. Study after study reveals stark gender inequities in the screen industries, with fewer female protagonists on screen than men and even fewer women creatives behind the camera. Reel Wahine of Hawai'i ensures that the stories of women filmmakers in Hawai'i will be told, by women, in films that employ women.
- Editor and producer Lisa Altieri is best known for the documentary features she has edited about Pacific Islander culture and history including Skin Stories, Papa Mau and Under a Jarvis Moon. Undaunted by the hundreds of hours of raw footage and thousands of images she must consider and shape into a compelling hour long film, she connects deeply to the Hawaiian stories she edits through the stories of her own family.
- Writer and director Erin Lau creates emotional narrative films about families and relationships featuring strong women protagonists, including The Moon and the Night and Empty Spaces. In her 20's, she is already a working director in Los Angeles with a clear sense of her own voice, her creative process and a deep understanding of why she wants to tell stories based on her own Hawaiian culture and community.
- Independent filmmaker and hula dancer Lisette Marie Kaualena Flanary creates documentary films that celebrate a modern renaissance of hula and Hawaiian culture. Her film American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i aired on the critically acclaimed POV series. Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula, features legendary Hawaiian master hula teacher and entertainer, Robert Cazimero. She is also passionate about mentoring the next generation of filmmakers through her work as a professor of film at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
- Animator Laura Margulies creates by hand using oil paints, watercolors and gouache to create lush moving paintings in motion. From her commissioned works for Sundance and PBS to her personal films like Rolling Down Like Pele, many of her animations are inspired by her work as a dancer and choreographer and her love of dance and music.
- Director/producer Marlene Booth had a thirty year filmmaking career in Cambridge, MA before relocating to Honolulu in 2000 and turning her eye toward Hawai'i stories. Her films KU KANAKA: STAND TALL and PIDGIN THE VOICE OF HAWAI'I recount Hawai'i history and culture through powerful character driven narratives. PIDGIN won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Hawai'i International Film Festival. She teaches film at the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
- For half a century Myrna Kamae and Eddie Kamae were partners in life, music and film. Myrna produced and Eddie directed ten films about Hawaiian music, language and culture, beginning with Li'a Legacy of a Hawaiian Man in 1988. They documented renowned Hawaiian kumus (teachers) and kupuna (elders) to preserve their knowledge for future generations. Their music driven films include songs and performances of celebrated Hawaiian musicians and composers, including Eddie's band, the Sons of Hawai'i.
- Visual artist and filmmaker Meleanna Aluli Meyer makes documentaries about building pride, understanding, and support of Hawaiian families and culture from an insider's perspective, including Puamana, about her beloved Aunty Irmgard Farden Aluli, a well-known musician and composer; and Hookuikahi - To Unify as One. Kuu Aina Aloha - My Beloved Country is currently in production.
- If you have watched television in Hawaii, chances are you have seen the work of Joy Chong-Stannard (Betrayal, Ka Hana Kapa, Biography Hawaii, Bread and Roses). Her career as a director of live television and documentaries for public television spans forty years. Her documentary work explores local culture, the dynamic social and economic upheavals of Hawaii's history, and its impact on everyday working people in our Islands.
- Documentarian Joan Lander (Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation), along with her longtime partner Puhipau Ahmad, was on the ground, camera in hand, documenting Hawaii history as it happened in the 1970s, '80s, and on to the present. They produced seminal films documenting important political and cultural happenings of the Hawaiian Renaissance as well as a wealth of vital indigenous knowledge.
- HINALEIMOANA WONG-KALU wrote and co-directed the Oscar-qualified animated short film KAPAEMAHU, which recounts an ancient story of four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit who brought the healing arts to Hawaii.
- Director/producer Kimberlee Bassford juggles filmmaking with teaching and raising a young son and daughter. Her films feature powerful female protagonists, including Cheerleader (Student Academy Award), WINNING GIRL (PBS broadcast), and Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority about the first U.S. congresswoman of color who co-authored Title IX, which mandated equal treatment for women and men in education.
- Director/producer/writer Zoe Eisenberg (Cashback, Stoke, Aloha from LavaLand) is one of only three women to direct a narrative feature film in Hawaii. Strong women protagonists are central to her work, as are the lava, landscapes, and people of the lush rural Puna District where she lives on the Big Island of Hawaii. Eisenberg is also the co-founder of the Made in Hawaii Film Festival.
- Ann Marie Nalani Kirk is an award-winning filmmaker from Maunalua, O'ahu. Her recent films include: Kai Piha: Na Loko I'a about traditional Hawaiian fishponds, Kai Piha: Ka'ahele Ma Waikiki about the history of traditional Hawaiian surfing in Waikiki and other films include The Hawaiian Room about the legendary Hawaiian dancers and entertainers who Hawaiian Room in the Lexington Hotel, Homealani about her grandfather Oliver H. Kupau, and Happy Birthday, Tutu Ruth about kupuna Ruth Kaholoa'a from Waipi'o, Hawai'i.
- Born on O'ahu and raised on Moloka'i, Jana has been acting, writing, producing and directing since she was a young child. She's written and produced multiple plays, over a dozen award-winning short films, and served in various Producer roles on several feature films, including Google/Array-grant winner Moloka'i Bound. A SAG_AFTRA actress, Jana has performed in over a dozen plays, starred in tv/radio commercials, short and feature films, and co-starred on two seasons of Hawaii 5-0 (CBS). Films she's helped produce include E Malama Pono Willy Boy, Audience Award Winner for Best Short Film (Hawai'i International Film Festival) and Best Short Drama Winner (Maoriland Film Festival), Dillon, Best Short Film and Best Cinematography Winner (Worldwide Women's Film Festival) and My Partner, Audience Award Winner for Best Narrative Film (L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival). Jana worked on Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch: Bloodline as well as on dozens of productions with clients including the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, Kamehameha Schools, Disney, Louis Vuitton, Hawai'i Council for the Humanities, Adobe, Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation, and more. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Hawai'i Filmmakers Collective, a non-profit organization that supports independent filmmakers in Hawai'i.
- Leanne K. Ferrer was an exceptional leader who was passionate about promoting Pacific Islander stories and public media. She was the Executive Director at Pacific Islanders in Communications and co-created the Pacific Heartbeat TV series while overseeing numerous other productions. Leanne understood the significance of connecting media creators to network and share their knowledge, which led her to establish the PIC Media Makers Summit, Hawaiian Handbook for Media Protocol, and the Hawaiian Media Makers Database to support a thriving creative community.
- Born and raised on the island of O'ahu, cinematographer Shaneika Aguilar has always been fascinated with cameras and the ability to capture and materialize a moment in time. She is best known for her work on independent films as well as branded content. Her work as a filmmaker with NMG Network garnered 2 Emmy Awards and 5 Pele Awards and included brands like Halekulani and Flux Media. She is a 2018 graduate of the University of Manoa Academy of Creative Media, and is the new lead content producer for Redefined Weddings, a boutique photography and video company. She continues her work as a commercial photographer and freelance cinematographer, focused on capturing local stories that build connection and unity in her community.
- An EMMY-award winning director and independent filmmaker for 30 years, Stephanie Castillo was a former Honolulu print journalist and documentary filmmaker committed to producing, directing, and writing documentary films exploring the lives of people driven by devotion to others. Castillo released her first documentary film, Simple Courage, in 1992, which compellingly drew parallels between the treatment of Hansen's Disease sufferers and people diagnosed with AIDS. Her other major films include: An Uncommon Kindness: The Father Damien Story; An Untold Triumph: The Story of the 1st and 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiment; Remember the Boys; Strange Land: My Mother's War Bride Story; Night Bird Song: the Incandescent Life of a Jazz Great.
- Sancia Miala Shiba Nash is a filmmaker from Kihei, Maui. Through time-based media, she works collaboratively to amplify intersectional stories of place. Her practice is guided by oral histories, archives, and acts of translation. Currently she is helping to catalog Na Maka o ka Aina's moving image collection, as a project of Pu'uhonua Society. In 2020, Sancia cofounded kekahi wahi, a grassroots film initiative dedicated to documenting transformations across Hawai'i.