sixth annual sponsors contents + about our area

inner circle sponsors contents 4 About the Festival 5 Letter from the Director 6 Host Venues and Map 8 Films 30 Waimea Schedule 34 Waimea Breakfast Talks 36 Four Seasons Schedule Four Seasons Breakfast Talks KOHALA COAST 37 38 Guest Speakers and Presentations 75 Artists and Exhibits 91 Thank You to Our Contributors ©Kristie Kosmides

media and local sponsors about our area

The Island of Hawai‘i, known as The these reefs, along with Hawaiian BIG ISLAND Big Island to avoid confusion with the Hawksbill turtles, octopus, eel and TRAVELER state, was formed by five volcanoes to smaller reef sharks. Spinner dolphins become one land mass. The still active come to rest in shallow bays during the Kīlauea sits at the heart of Hawai‘i day, before returning to deeper water Volcanoes National Park, while Mauna to hunt at night. Humpback whales Kea, Mauna Loa and Hualālai tower over frolic along the coast during winter, the Kohala and Kona coastlines, where when the ocean fills with the sound of stark lava fields meet turquoise waters their beautiful song and people watch and multihued sand beaches. The enthralled as they breach or surface gentle slopes of the Kohala Mountains, for air. now volcanically extinct, provide the The town of Waimea, also known as backdrop to the town of Waimea and to Kamuela, sits in the saddle between northern Hawi and Kapa‛au. the dry and green sides of the island, The Kohala Coast is one of the driest nestled into the Kohala Mountains. regions in all of the Hawaiian Islands. The pastoral community is known as food and beverage sponsors It is an area rich in both Hawaiian much for the paniolo culture that history and sea life, with a relatively lends character to the town, as for the healthy coral reef ecosystem still intact. rainbows that grace the countryside, Gills Tropical fish, many of which are found reflecting the ever-shifting weather LANAI nowhere else in the world, inhabit patterns between rain, mist and sun.

Cover artwork ©Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai

2 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 3 about the festival letter from the director

updated for the exhibit this year. ‘Imiloa about the festival aloha! Astronomy Center also joins the festival, hosting a presentation on wayfinding USING THE PROGRAM THEATRE ENTRY Welcome to the 2016 Waimea Ocean with a full-dome star show. All film screenings, presentations and Remember to wear your passes. Festival Film Festival! The 2016 festival offers London filmmaker Tom Mustill brings special events are listed by day and volunteers will open doors for seating a breathtaking lineup of nearly 60 a stunning BBC production, The Bat venue in the festival schedule. Each 15 minutes prior to each show. The films, special guests, coffee talks, Man of Mexico, along with How To Win Breakfast Talk location is presented, theater will be cleared between Q&As, exhibits, receptions and morning the Grand National. Tad Fettig brings along with its description, in the screenings. activities, with many extraordinary guest the PBS series E2, narrated by Brad Pitt Breakfast Talk section of the program. speakers, filmmakers and artists joining and Morgan Freeman, pointing towards us this year. Films are grouped with other films and/ TBAS (TO BE ANNOUNCED) energy solutions; David Holbrooke Greg Stone, PhD, one of the or speakers into film blocks, as shown A certain number of films will be brings The Diplomat about the life and world’s leading authorities on marine in the schedule. When filmmakers will screened as TBAs. The most popular work of his father, Ambassador Richard conservation policy and ocean health be present for discussion after the film; films from the festival will be shown Holbrooke, with a behind-the-scenes issues, speaks after a number of at this time, along with a few films look at international diplomacy; and this is noted by “Q&A.” films in which he is featured, and M. pending at publication. TBA schedules When Voices Meet star Sharon Katz and Sanjayan, PhD, an Emmy nominated HOSPITALITY DESK and special screenings will be posted at producer Marilyn Cohen join the festival news contributor and a favorite festival The Hospitality Desk is located in the the Hospitality Desk starting on Sunday with guitar in hand. speaker, returns to share his coverage Drew Harvell, PhD, Cornell University lobby of the Kahilu Theatre during the morning, Jan 3. Please let our theatre for PBS of Big Blue Live, the first live Waimea portion of the event and in the volunteers know if you have a TBA professor, Kohala Center scientist and television show featuring ocean wildlife. curator of the Blaschka Marine Inverte- foyer of the Ballroom when the festival request. Garrett McNamara, who holds the brates collection, brings A Fragile Legacy, moves to Four Seasons Resort Hualālai. world record for the largest wave surfed, with a look at changes in the ocean today. Passes and programs are available for THE PASS SYSTEM at 78 feet, is here to answers questions Unbranded shares the spectacular story pick-up at the Hospitality Desk at Kahilu The pass system enables the festival to following his film, Nazaré Calling, as well organize a dynamic event that includes of Texas cowboy Ben Masters, who leads Theatre starting 9 am-5 pm Dec 30. as 2015 People’s Choice Winner Behind a string of wild mustangs 3,000 miles films, speakers, presentations, Breakfast Passes may be purchased at the desk, the Lines, which captures his record- from Mexico to Canada and joins the Talks and other activities, plus allows along with other items. The Hospitality winning ride. festival to tell the tale. for rich and complex content, with Desk is available to answer questions Corporate keynote speaker and winner O‘ahu-based filmmaker and former and provide additional information as one aspect woven together with the of the 2010 Mavericks International, Chris Miss Hawai‘i Filipina Maribel Apuya joins the festival progresses. next. While passes are the ideal way Bertish joins the festival from South the festival to answer questions as does to enjoy the festival, remaining seats Africa to answer questions and for a Moloka‘i filmmaker Matt Yamashita, HOURS OF OPERATION for films and presentations will be book signing; and Waimea’s very own, along with part-time Kohala resident AT KAHILU THEATRE opened for individual ticket purchase 15 nine-time world bodyboard champion, John Antonelli. And, HPA graduate Alison Wednesday, Dec 30: 9 am–5 pm minutes prior to each show. For more waterman Mike Stewart appears after the Teal brings an episode from her series, Thursday, Dec 31: 9 am–3 pm information on passes, please talk with showing of Come Hell or High Water. Alison’s Adventures: Maldives. Friday, Jan 1: 9 am–10 pm the Hospitality Desk, visit the website at The Voyager Exhibit debuts photo- The art exhibits and offerings are Saturday, Jan 2: 8 am–10 pm www.waimeaoceanfilm.org, or contact graphs of the 2015 Worldwide Voyage beautiful and Hālau O Po‘ohala, the (WWV), taken by the ‘Ōiwi TV photogra- Sunday, Jan 3: 9 am–10 pm the festival office at 808-854-6095. Solomon-Beamer Hālau, shares hula. A Monday, Jan 4: 9 am–6 pm phers on board, in a down-to-the-wire dynamic and exciting line-up all in all. PATRONS AND SPONSORS printing of this very current exhibit, Mahalo to our festival patrons and HOURS OF OPERATION AT FOUR The festival is made possible through sharing a sense and feel of the voyage, in sponsors who make it possible and to SEASONS BALLROOM FOYER the contribution of patrons and which Hōkūle‘a left the Pacific Ocean for everyone who helps along the way. I hope the first time. Monday, Jan 4: 5 pm-8 pm sponsors and the festival would like to you enjoy. The 8x13-foot world map developed Tuesday, Jan 5: 9 am–8 pm thank these individuals and businesses. in collaboration between the festival Wednesday, Jan 6: 9 am–8 pm Please join us in supporting our festival Mahalo nui loa, and Nā Kālai Wa‘a a few years ago to Thursday, Jan 7: 9 am–8 pm Tania Howard, Founder and Director sponsors. highlight the WWV route and bring to Friday, Jan 8: 9 am–8 pm Waimea Ocean Film Festival life the magnitude of the expedition, is

4 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 5 waimea venues host venues

HAWAI‘I PREPARATORY ACADEMY KOHALA COAST Directions to The Fairmont Orchid, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Hawai‘i from Waimea: Breakfast Talks are scheduled at the • Drive approximately 11 miles down Mauna Kea Beach Hotel each morning Kawaihae Road (Highway 19), until trebuchet 8:15-9:15 am Jan 2-4, with coffee and you reach the T-intersection on your ANNA RANCH light fare provided. A sunrise yoga class hawaii HPA ISAACS left, where the road heads to Kona. ART CENTER PARKER SCHOOL is available to festival pass holders 7-8 THEATRE Turn left to continue on Highway 19. Waimea ‘a and Hilo am Jan 2-4 on the lawn by the lū‘au You are now traveling south, parallel To Mauna Kea Resort, Honoka The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i grounds during this same period. The ā to the ocean on your right. Four Seasons Resort Hual lai Aloha Expressionism exhibit can be • Continue approximately seven miles, Hawaii Preparatory Academy found at the Lloyd Sexton Gallery Jan Gates Performing Arts Center 1-4 and festival artist Christian Enns will past the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel (HPA) entrance, until you see the Mauna Starbuck’s Parker School Theatre | 65-1692 Kohala Mountain Road exhibit his work at Enns Gallery. Enns 65-1224 Lindsey Road will also paint en plein air 8-10:30 am Lani Resort sign on your right before a Jan 2-4 on property. tall coconut grove entry road. Kahilu Theatre Kona behind the Parker Ranch Center at • Turn right onto Mauna Lani Drive. KAHILU THEATRE 1 The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i Proceed past the Guard House to the Anna Ranch Heritage Center The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i hosts traffic circle and take the first right to 65-1480 Kawaihae Road film showings and presentations in The Fairmont Orchid on North Kaniku 5 HPA Isaacs Art Center its Lehua Theater, as well as exhibits Drive. Anna Ranch 65-1268 Kawaihae Road and presentations in the adjoining Heritage Center • Stay on North Kaniku Drive until you downstairs ballrooms. The Fairmont Orchid reach the main entrance to 1 North Kaniku Drive (not on map) host venues The Fairmont Orchid at the end of the drive, less than a WAIMEA mile. Valet and self parking Kahilu Theatre walking distance of Kahilu Theatre and available. A historic 490-seat theatre in the center it’s suggested attendees walk between of Waimea town, Kahilu Theatre will the two. Parker Theatre will host film FOUR SEASONS host the festival’s Hospitality Desk, film screenings. Four Seasons Resort Hualālai screenings and presentations. will host the film festival Anna Ranch Jan 4-8, with films opening Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy (HPA) – Listed on both the National and State Jan 4 in the evening. Films Gates Performing Arts Center Registers of Historic Places, the ranch are shown in the Ballroom. The Gates Performing Art Center is a was purchased in 1848 by Englishman Breakfast Talks are scheduled 360-seat theatre, located in the heart James Fay and his Hawaiian wife each morning 8:15-9:15 am of the upper Hawai‘i Preparatory Ka‘ipukai, and was in the same ranching Jan 5-8, with coffee and Academy (HPA) campus, about two miles family for five generations. Visitors pastries provided. Artwork west of town. HPA Gates will host film may tour the spectacular and expansive and exhibits will be hosted screenings. gardens as well as the 14-room historic in the meeting rooms by the ranch house with a treasure trove of Ballroom and near the festival The Parker School Theatre Hawaiian koa furnishings, artifacts and Hospitality Desk. Contact the Originally built in 1920 on Parker Ranch fine millinery. Anna Ranch will host a festival Hospitality Desk with as an entertainment center for ranch Breakfast Talk each morning 8:15-9:15 questions. residents and workers, Parker Theatre am Jan 2-4, with coffee and light fare has been renovated over the decades provided.

and seats 280. Parker Theatre is within Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai

6 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 7 the films

Humpback Whales

Narrated by two-time Golden Globe® A MacGillivray Freeman film nominee Ewan McGregor, Humpback presented by Pacific Life, Humpback Whales is an extraordinary journey into Whales is directed by Greg MacGillivray the mysterious world of one of nature’s (The Living Sea, Dolphins, Everest) and most awe-inspiring marine mammals. produced by Shaun MacGillivray (To Set in the spectacular waters of Alaska, The Arctic, Grand Canyon Adventure). Hawai‘i and the remote islands of Humpback Whales is written and edited Tonga, this ocean adventure offers by Stephen Judson (Everest, To The audiences an up-close look at how Arctic) with a musical score by Steve these gentle giants communicate, sing, Wood. (Journey to the South Pacific, To feed, play and take care of their young. The Arctic). It’s a One World One Ocean Humpbacks were nearly driven to production. extinction 50 years ago, but today are Throughout the company’s 50-year making a slow, but remarkable recovery. history, MacGillivray Freeman Films Join a team of researchers as they have won numerous international unlock the secrets of the humpback awards including two Academy Award®- and find out why they are the most nominations and three films inducted acrobatic of all whales; why they sing into the IMAX Hall of Fame. Humpback their haunting songs; and why these Whales follows in the company’s long intelligent, 55-foot, 50-ton mammals tradition of films known for artistry migrate up to 10,000 miles round-trip and as a celebration of science and the annually. natural world.

Mother and calf ©2015 MacGillivray Freeman Films and Pacific Life. Photographer: Michele Hall.

8 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment.Mother and calf culture. ©BrandonCole www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 9 the films the films the films

‘Āina: That Which Feeds Us The Bat Man of Mexico Josh Thome, Dave Mossop (USA, 23 min) Tom Mustill (UK, 60 min) Big Island Premiere In person: Tom Mustill ‘Āina, which means “land” or “that which feeds Hawai‘i Premiere us” in Hawaiian, is as much a global story as a Narrated by David Attenborough, this stunning local one. On the island of Kaua‘i, the contrast BBC production follows Mexican biologist Dr. between a traditional agricultural system, or Rodrigo Medellin, aka “The Bat Man of Mexico,” organic farming methods, and the industrial as he tracks endangered “Tequila” bats on their agricultural model, with genetically modified 1,000-mile migration to the US border, where they test crops, becomes more apparent and the risks pollinate the tequila agave plants. Through his more tangible. work, the bats become the first animal in Mexico to be removed from the endangered species list.

Alison’s Adventures: Maldives Behind the Lines Alison Teal (USA, 15 min) Mikey Corker (UK, 40 min) In person: Alison Teal, Sarah Lee In person: Garrett McNamara Hawai‘i Premiere 2015 People’s Choice Winner Returning to the island where her Naked and Commissioned as a six-part series for Epic Afraid episode was filmed, Alison finds it covered TV, Behind the Lines follows British big with plastic trash. Realizing the trash must have wave surfer Andrew Cotton during the washed ashore with the currents, and that it must historic 2013 season, when a succession have been cleared prior to filming, Alison embarks of massive swells hits the European coast. on a quest to understand how to reduce the use The film also captures Garrett McNamara’s of plastic overall and repurpose what we do have record-breaking ride of a 78 foot wave. into useful material.

Audubon: John James Audubon The Birth of Saké and the Birds of America Erik Shirai (USA, 93 min) Al Reinert (USA, 91 min) In person: Erik Shirai Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere Audubon is the story of a rare man and the birds With exquisite imagery, The Birth of Saké tells the that captivated him. His work influenced the great story of what it takes to make world-class saké in thinkers and conservationists that came after him, the traditional way at Yoshida Brewery—a 144-year- from Thoreau to Teddy Roosevelt, and helped to old family-owned, small brewery in northern Japan. preserve some of the wild lands he explored and Here, a group of workers live and work for six documented. Audubon’s legacy is as timeless and months each year, under the direction of the brew vital as the art he created, providing a capsule in master and the brewery’s sixth-generation heir, to time of the natural world. uphold the 2,000-year-old tradition.

10 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 11 the films the films the films

Canefield Songs: Holehole Bushi Debris Joy Chong-Stannard (USA, 27 min) John Bolton (Canada, 15 min) Big Island Premiere In person: Megan Lamson Narrated by Jake Shimabukuro, Canefield Songs Debris follows intertidal artist Pete Clarkson tells the story of the Japanese immigrants who in Tofino as he crafts a memorial to the 2011 sang as they worked on Hawai‘i’s sugar plantations, tsunami in Japan. When mangled timber creating a Japanese-American equivalent of “the and other objects start to wash ashore years blues.” Called holehole (Hawaiian for dried cane later, the inspiration for the memorial is leaves) bushi (Japanese for melody or tune), the born. In Clarkson’s hands, the remnants from songs are a lyrical record of the workers’ joys, the Tohoku region take on a life of their sorrows and challenges. own, connecting an artist, his community and a people an ocean away.

Come Hell or High Water Deeper Keith Malloy (USA, 42 min) Mikey Corker (UK, 35 min) In person: Mike Stewart In person: Garrett McNamara Come Hell or High Water explores the history USA Premiere and progression of the sport of bodysurfing, Filmed in five countries over six months, Deeper featuring Mike Stewart, Mark Cunningham, Crystal follows big wave surfers Garrett McNamara, Thornburg-Homcy and others. Shot primarily in Andrew Cotton and Keali‘i Mamala as they charge 16mm, the film takes a unique look at the culture, into the enormous swells pounding the European beauty and simplicity of the sport, capturing the coastline in winter, from Nazaré in Portugal to stories and locations of those who love this direct Mullaghmore on the west coast of Ireland, chasing connection in riding a wave. what has become one of the most extreme sports on the planet. Some adult language.

Containment Denali Peter Galison, Robb Moss (USA, 82 min) Ben Knight (USA, 7 min) Big Island Premiere Big Island Premiere Can we contain some of the deadliest, longest- Denali is a film by Ben Knight about the lasting substances known to man for 2,000 years— relationship between photographer Ben Moon as long as the Coliseum of Rome has remained and his beloved dog, Denali, who traveled with standing—let alone for 240,000 years, when they will Moon everywhere, from surf spots to mountains no longer be radioactive? In an attempt to protect and desert. It celebrates the human-dog bond future generations, governments have begun to try in a beautiful story about friendship, loss and and imagine monuments that would warn of danger the fight for life. across just a 10,000-year span of time.

12 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 13 the films the films the films

The Diplomat E2-Architecture 2030 David Holbrooke (USA, 103 min) Tad Fettig (USA, 26 min) In person: David Holbrooke, Stacey Reiss In person: Tad Fettig Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere The Diplomat tells the remarkable story of the Buildings are responsible for almost half of all life and legacy of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke CO2 emissions in the US. Architect Ed Mazria’s whose crowning achievement, the Dayton Peace Architecture 2030 organization is galvanizing Accords, brought peace to Bosnia. Told through a commitment to a carbon-neutral building the perspective of his eldest son, David, The sector by the year 2030, in a collaborative Diplomat takes a riveting behind-the-scenes look at effort between government leaders, architects, international diplomacy, as it follows Holbrooke’s regulatory agencies and building suppliers. career from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Architecture 2030 shares the plan.

Duke Kahanamoku: Hawai‘i’s Soul E2-Harvesting the Wind KGMB (USA, 48 min) Tad Fettig (USA, 26 min) In person: Phil Arnone In person: Tad Fettig Shown in honor of the 125th year since his birth, Hawai‘i Premiere Duke Kahanamoku: Hawai‘i’s Soul shares the life While there is enough wind resource in the US of Hawai‘i’s legendary waterman and hero, as told to provide one-and-a-half times the country’s through candid interviews with those who knew electrical demand, very little is tapped into. him. From his early life growing up in Waikiki, to his In Minnesota, however, wind energy is not only international renown as an Olympic swimmer and starting to provide clean energy, but also economic surfer, with five Olympic swimming medals, to his opportunity for rural farmers, who, like those official role as Ambassador ofAloha, Duke continues in rural communities elsewhere, are facing the to be an inspiration today. choice of leaving the communities they grew up in.

E2-Affordable Green Housing E2-London: The Price of Traffic Tad Fettig (USA, 26 min) Tad Fettig (USA, 26 min) In person: Tad Fettig In person: Tad Fettig Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere New York City is known for its diversity, but its Under the direction and leadership of visionary public housing developments, often ignore the former Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron, and utilizing social and cultural needs of the people who the economic principles of demand management, live within. This E2 episode follows developer the City of London has undergone a Jonathan Rose as he works to create a new model transformation over the past decade, becoming for public housing, one that values sustainability, a model of rail service, transit efficiency, community and healthy, positive living spaces. pedestrian-friendly access and public space. It has become, in short, a great city to be in.

14 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 15 the films the films the films

E2-Paris: Vélo Liberté A Fragile Legacy Tad Fettig (USA, 26 min) David Brown (USA, 30 min) In person: Tad Fettig In person: Drew Harvell, PhD Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere Paris’ ambitious public-private Velib bike initiative In 1885, Cornell University authorized the purchase provides residents an easy way to forgo cars for of over 500 Blaschka Glass models of marine bikes and public transportation. In the process, the invertebrates for use in teaching marine biology. program has fostered a unique popular culture, These exquisitely crafted models enabled study complete with its own language, jokes and pick- of delicate creatures that could not otherwise up lines. Its success has inspired cities like Rome, be documented or preserved. Forgotten, the San Francisco and London to begin adopting similar collection is receiving new attention as we try to programs of their own. understand the changes occuring in the ocean.

E2-Portland: A Sense of Place Gun Ho Tad Fettig (USA, 26 min) Bud Browne (USA, 73 min) In person: Tad Fettig In person: Anna Trent Moore Hawai‘i Premiere Gun Ho provides a rare glimpse of some of the For more than 40 years, City of Portland planners iconic surfers of the 60s surf scene such as have focused transportation decisions around Ricky Grigg, Mickey Dora, Greg Noll, Peter Cole, providing rail and mass transit options, and focused Buzzy Trent and George Downing. Filmed by the development within urban growth boundaries. As a father of the surf film and creator of the genre, result, Portland is considered one of the country’s Bud Browne, it shares a moment of surfing most livable places and has the second lowest per history and culture, and serves as a tribute to capita transportation spending of the 28 largest US these larger-then-life figures in the surf world. metropolitan areas.

The Fisherman’s Son Here Was Cuba Chris Malloy (USA, 29 min) John Murray (Ireland, 77 min) When a visiting surfer gave a broken board to a 2015 People’s Choice Winner young boy in Punta de Lobos, he did not know what Here Was Cuba tells the inside story of the he had started. Young Ramón Navarro, son of a Cuban Missile Crisis. The film brings to life the Chilean subsistence fisherman, rose to the top of the three central characters—Kennedy, Castro and big wave surfing world, winning the Monster Drop Khrushchev—and reveals how the world’s most Award at The Eddie at O‘ahu’s Waimea Bay in 2009. powerful men brought the world to the brink Navarro’s accomplishments as a surfer are part of of destruction and what courage, luck, clear a larger vision to preserve the Chilean coast he loves. thinking, resolve and restraint it took, at every level of command, to bring the world back.

16 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 17 the films the films the films

Hōkūle‘a: Proud Voyage Home Ireland’s Ocean: Elisa Yadao, KGMB (USA, 46 min) Life in the Shallows In person: Chadd Paishon, Shorty Bertelmann, Ken O’Sullivan (Ireland, 50 min) Pomai Bertelmann USA Premiere In 1985 the Polynesian Voyaging Society and With beautiful imagery, Life in the Shallows its double-hulled canoe, Hōkūle‘a, set out on provides a glimpse into the abundance of life an ambitious, two-year, 12,000-mile journey, found in the shallow seas around Ireland. Storms retracing the major migratory routes of ancient churn up nutrients from the sea floor, which Polynesians, sailing all the way from Hawai‘i to combine with sunlight to create a fertile and New Zealand, the starting off point of the 2015 abundant ecosystem. The film also looks at the Worldwide Voyage. impact of winter storm waves underwater and the issues of nitrate run-off from land to sea.

How To Win The Grand National La Primera Ola Tom Mustill (UK, 48 min) Pedro Temboury (Spain, 78 min) In person: Tom Mustill USA Premiere USA Premiere Drawing on more than 3,000 meters of unedited Produced by Oxford Scientific Films heading into Super 8 film, La Primera Ola tells the story of the 2013 Grand National, the film explores what the early days of surfing in this country. With it takes to win the world’s toughest horserace. over 80 interviews, the film preserves a unique Drawing on the testimony of legendary jockeys collection of sources, sharing stories like that and pivotal moments of race history, it looks at of Félix Cueto, who made himself a surfboard everything from the skill and power needed to land with only a Beach Boys album cover for the jumps, to the depth of the bond between horse guidance. Subtitled, with some adult language. and rider.

Humpback Whales Landfill Harmonic Greg MacGillivray (USA, 40 min) Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley (USA, 84 min) In person: Chad Wiggins Big Island Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere As the waste produced globally has increased, Set in the waters of Alaska, Hawai‘i and Tonga, communities have grown around giant landfill narrated by Ewan McGregor and led by a team of sites around the world. in Cateura, Paraguay, researchers, Humpback Whales provides an up-close environmental technician Favio Chávez decided look at how and why these whales communicate, to give music classes to keep kids from playing sing, feed, breach, play, take care of their young in the landfill. He soon had more students than and migrate nearly 10,000 miles each year. Nearly instruments, until one of the workers, Nicolás driven to extinction, humpbacks are making a slow, Gómez, crafts a violin from scraps found on site. but remarkable recovery.

18 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 19 the films the films the films

The Loco Viaje Meru Iker San Martin (Spain, 3 min) Jimmy Chin (USA, 87 min) In person: Iker San Martin Big Island Premiere A compilation of footage taken on assignment, The Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru has seen more The Loco Viaje shares a wonderful collection of failed attempts by elite climbing teams over portraits, cultures, landscapes and people the the past 30 years than any other ascent in the world over as they work and live day-to-day. Himalayas. In this riveting film, Conrad Anker, This short film carries the full vibrancy of life Jimmy Chin and renan Ozturk arrive in 2008 to and the many facets of a colorful world. attempt a first ascent, in what becomes the start of a three-year odyssey.

Mapping the Blue MEssage in a Bottle Alison Barrat (USA, 29 min) Danny Schmidt (USA, 15 min) Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere In 2012 the Cook Islands announced the Featured in the film Chasing Ice for his establishment of one of the largest marine parks in work in documenting ice melt in the arctic, the world. Mapping the Blue follows professional photographer James Balog embarks on a new rugby player Kevin Iro, the driving force behind the journey in understanding climate change. His park, and his team as they meet with those who live voyage takes him to Mauna Loa Observatory on and work there to come up with a clear map and the Big Island of Hawai‘i, where he captures a plan for park usage. bottle of air containing the CO2 concentration at this moment in time.

Medicine of the Wolf Nazaré Calling Julia Huffman (USA, 75 min) Garrett McNamara (Portugal, 52 min) Hawai‘i Premiere In person: Garrett McNamara Medicine of the Wolf shares the insight of National Big Island Premiere Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg, who In the month leading up to Garrett McNamara’s has studied and worked with wolves over the past incredible world record-breaking ride at 45 years. Brandenburg provides a rare glimpse into Nazaré—credited as a 78-foot wave and the their world, conveying the beauty and intelligence largest wave ever ridden—McNamara spends of the wolf, while uncovering the misunderstandings time exploring the town and swell, helping with and fear we have of them. a beach cleanup along the way and growing ever more to love the place and people.

20 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 21 the films the films the films

North Coast 500 Ocean Stories: Greg Stone Iain Mitchell, Rupert Shanks (Scotland, 3 min) Patrick Creadon (USA, 31 min) World Premiere In person: Greg Stone PhD, Greg Goggin The North Coast 500 is a 516-mile scenic route USA Premiere winding through the Scottish Highlands, starting Inspired by Jacque Cousteau, Greg Stone in Inverness, venturing up the west coast and decided to dedicate his life’s work to the ocean back via the rugged north coast. Cyclist Mark at the age of 16. Stone has written some of the Beaumont decides to make the journey in a single world’s most important texts on marine biology, ride, showcasing the staggering scenery, the gritty helped establish the Phoenix Islands Protected weather and the psychology of ultra endurance. Area and been named a hero by National Geographic for his work.

The Northern Sky Ocean Stories: Wyland Britton Caillouette (USA, 10 min) Patrick Creadon (USA, 30 min) Two board sports legends, Pipeline master Gerry In person: Wyland Lopez and snowboarder, shaper and surfer Taro World Premiere Tamai, have spent a lifetime practicing the art of Energetic, charismatic and creative, Wyland is flow. In The Northern Sky they look to the root of best known for his 100 life-size whale murals that sensation, as they seem to float effortlessly found on walls and buildings around the world. down the mountains above Niseko, Japan, sharing The extent of Wyland’s public artwork, his a unique perspective and the philosophy and galleries and community service projects have view of life expressed by Taro Tamai. made him one of the most recognized artists in the nation.

Ocean Driven Of Ants and Men Nadia Tarlow, Adrian Charles, Chris Bertish Shelley Schulze (USA, 91 min) (USA, 55 min) Hawai‘i Premiere In person: Chris Bertish The world’s foremost authority on ants, From South Africa to surf breaks around the world, E.O. Wilson was also one of the first people Ocean Driven chronicles the life of big wave surf to start thinking in term of ecosystems, champion Chris Bertish as he rises determinedly coining the term “biodiversity.” Wilson to the forefront of big wave surfing, becoming earned the wrath and ridicule even of his a pioneer of paddling into larger waves. In 2010, fellow colleagues at Harvard for his 1975 Bertish paddled into the largest wave ever surfed at book Sociobiology, now a standard course the Mavericks Big Wave Invitational, taking the title. of study, and explores here the tendency of humans to “us” versus “them” thinking.

22 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 23 the films the films the films

Paradise Found: Phoenix Islands The Roots of ‘Ulu Kate Raisz (USA, 24 min) John Antonelli (USA, 36 min) In person: Greg Stone, PhD In person: John Antonelli, Matt Yamashita, Hawai‘i Premiere Jerry Konanui In a remote corner of the Pacific, the nation of The Roots of ‘Ulu explores the importance of the Kiribati created what was then the world’s largest ‘ulu tree to Hawaiian culture and its potential role marine reserve, the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. as a food source. Brought with early Polynesian After realizing how pristine the ocean environment settlers from Tahiti to Hawai‘i, ‘ulu, or breadfruit, here was, Greg Stone played a pivotal role in helping formed a nutritious part of the traditional the Kiribati government establish the reserve to Polynesian diet, while parts of the plant were used protect its rich heritage into the future. to make surf boards, drums, canoe parts, utensils, bowls and caulking for canoes.

Reaching Blue A Sakada Story Ian Hinkle, Andy Robertson (Canada, 20 min) Maribel Apuya (USA, 10 min) In person: Ian Hinkle In person: Maribel Apuya Hawai‘i Premiere Big Island Premiere A writer, an oyster farmer and an ocean A Sakada Story is the story of Filipino plantation scientist on Canada’s Pacific coast discuss worker Cipriano Erice, who immigrated to Hawai‘i recent changes occurring in the Salish Sea. With in 1946 to work for Waialua Sugar Plantation. 22 cinematographers contributing imagery, Through hard work and determination, Cipriano Reaching Blue shares the beauty of the Salish rose from cutting grass and hauling cane to the Sea and the degree to which climate change and highest position of journeyman, proudly enabling ocean acidification are starting to impact local him to send all of his children to college, giving communities. them the education he never was able to receive.

Reflections of an The Search For Freedom Underwater Cameraman Jon Long (Canada, 92 min) Ken O’Sullivan (Ireland, 5 min) Big Island Premiere USA Premiere With stunning imagery, The Search For Freedom Reflections of an Underwater Cameraman is a short explores the pursuit of living in the moment film about Irish filmmaker Ken O’Sullivan. As Ken and finding stillness of mind. Sharing interviews notes, “There aren’t many of us swimming about and footage of Robby Naish, Gerry Lopez, and diving in the North Atlantic all year round. After Yvon Chouinard, Gary Fisher, Kai Lenny, Chris 10 years, it felt natural to turn the lens on myself, Burkard and others, The Search for Freedom perhaps because of the solitude of my work, or imparts the spirit of adventure and zest for life perhaps because of an inherent need to understand that sits at the core of all these athletes do. my own personal journey.”

24 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 25 the films the films the films

Secrets of the Longleaf Pine Sons of Halawa Greg Pope, Rhett Turner (USA, 57 min) Matt Yamashita (USA, 57 min) In person: Chad Wiggins In person: Matt Yamashita Hawai‘i Premiere Moloka‘i’s Halawa Valley is believed to be one Once stretching across the Southeast, only a of the oldest inhabited locations in Hawai‘i. small fraction of Longleaf Pine forest remains. Hawaiians thrived in Halawa for many hundreds Home to the Gopher Tortoise, the longleaf pine of years, but today the isolated valley lies quiet habitat is a quiet and unique place, essential to and nearly forgotten. Pilipo Solatorio is the the region. The film shares the efforts of private last of his generation to still live there today, landholders, government and conservation groups and the last to hold, share and pass along the as they join forces to preserve this biologically cultural traditions, music and stories. diverse ecosystem.

Shark Girl Teddy Tucker: Adventure Is My Life Gisela Kaufmann (Australia, 58 min) Kate Raisz (USA, 52 min) Big Island Premiere In person: Greg Stone, PhD Shark Girl follows 19-year-old Madison Stewart as Hawai‘i Premiere she discovers how a ban on shark fishing is working, Starting in the late 1940’s, Teddy Tucker how vital sharks are to reefs and how a living shark discovered over 100 shipwrecks around Bermuda, can generate a thousand times more dollars each including the San Pedro, where he uncovered the year than a dead one. Ever aware and respectful, famous “Tucker Cross.” Devising a grid system for and in clear conditions with good visibility, we watch surveying wreck sites, Tucker virtually created her swim with tiger sharks and extract fishing hooks the field of underwater archaeology. Engaging, from the mouths of ocean-going silky sharks. Shark legendary and a true pioneer, Adventure is My finning footage. Life tells the story of Teddy Tucker.

Slack Key Thule Tuvalu Myrna and Eddie Kamae (USA, 61 min) Matthias von Gunten (Switzerland, 96 min) Slack Key offers a beautiful journey into the Hawai‘i Premiere meaning of Hawaiian slack key music. Eddie Thule Tuvalu is about people from two ends of Kamae shares the connection between Hawai‘i’s the earth who are increasingly confronted with cultural traditions and the ki ho‘alu guitar, the fact they must change the essence of their inspiring a greater love and understanding of this existence, as the climate changes. Ice melting music. Candid interviews and archival images in the north alters the landscape and lives are interwoven with the music of the great of the hunters in Greenland as much as the performers to tell the slack key story from the ensuing sea level rise threatens the way of life 1830s to our time. for the people of Tuvalu.

26 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 27 the films the films the films

Unbranded Worth the Risk Phillip Baribeau (USA, 105 min) ‘Ōiwi TV (USA, 5 min) In person: Phillip Baribeau, Ben Masters In person: Chad Kalepa Baybayan, Chadd Big Island Premiere Paishon, Shorty Bertelmann, Pomai Bertelmann Setting out to inspire adoptions of the 50,000 wild After sailing more than 16,000 nautical miles on horses and burros living in government pens, Ben the Worldwide Voyage, Hōkūle‘a now faces new Masters recruits three friends and develops a plan challenges and risks on the most dangerous leg to to adopt, train and ride a string of wild mustangs date: a 2,400-mile direct line going from Mauritius 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada, through to Madagascar to the eastern side of South Africa. the heart of the American West. The journey is Worth the Risk shares the preparations and as challenging as it is beautiful, complete with concerns of crew as they prepare for this leg of unexpected trials and a rodeo. the voyage.

©2015 MacGillivray Freeman Films and Pacific Life. Photographer-Barbara MacGillivray Uncharted Waters: The Personal History of Wayne Lynch Craig Griffin (Australia, 87 min) Hawai‘i Premiere Uncharted Waters provides a thoughtful biography of Wayne Lynch, whose natural ability and advanced surfing style made him a legend at a young age. While Lynch’s unconventional lifestyle as a surfer in the 60s put him at odds with the culture of the day and face-to-face with the conscription debate, his views now run counter to today’s surf culture. Some adult language and themes.

When Voices Meet Nancy Sutton Smith (South Africa, 86 min) In person: Marilyn Cohen, Sharon Katz Hawai‘i Premiere When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, South African musician Sharon Katz and educator Nonhlanhla Wanda risked everything to form a 500-voice, multiracial student choir. Intent on breaking through Apartheid’s barriers, they traveled by train, singing their way through the divided country, pointing the way to peace. Includes some actual footage of the conflict.

28 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 29 waimea schedule waimea schedule

friday, jaN 1 saturday, jaN 2

30 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 31 waimea schedule waimea schedule

sunday, jaN 3 monday, jaN 4

32 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 33 breakfast talks

waimea breakfast talks breakfast talks & morning activities

Start your day with light fare, coffee Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Anna Ranch Heritage Center morning activities and compelling conversation. Breakfast Chris Bertish Unbranded Talks are from 8:15-9:15 am. Primary Join big wave surf champion Chris Join filmmaker Phillip Baribeau and Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Breakfast Talk locations are the Copper Bertish as he shares stories from cowboy Ben Masters as they share Join fellow festival attendees 7–8 am Bar at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and paddling into the big waves, including behind-the-scenes stories from the Jan 2-4 for sunrise yoga with instructor Anna Ranch Heritage Center in Waimea. his experience in being the first to making of the film Unbranded and Chelsea Morriss. Classes meet at the paddle in to Jaws. Bertish also talks their experience in training the wild upper lawn by the lūau grounds and about his recent efforts at setting mustangs they ride 3,000 miles from if conditions permit, will move to the Sat, Jan 2 records on a stand-up paddle board and Mexico to Canada. beach. Come enjoy first light on the his upcoming quest to paddle across the ocean and an invigorating start to the Kahilu Theatre Atlantic Ocean. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel day. Bring your own mat or towel and a Makali‘i, Dry Dock and Hoea Moku Greg Stone, PhD water bottle. Join Chadd Paishon, Pomaikalani Join Dr. Greg Stone as he describes Bertelmann, Shorty Bertelmann and Sun, Jan 3 stories about his life and work, includ- Kawaihae Canoe Club other members of Nā Kālai Wa‘a as ing time in the field with explorer Teddy The Kawaihae Canoe Club was formed in they talk about Makali’i, the dry dock Mala‘ai Gardens Tucker and author Peter Benchley, and 1972 by a group of athletic and civic- process and Hoea Moku, the canoe Blue Zones, Mala‘ai Gardens and his recent experience at The United Na- minded individuals from Waimea and has sustainability project currently housed Waimea Outdoor Circle tions Climate Change Conference in Paris. been instrumental to the revival of the at Nā Kālai Wa‘a’s 10-acre parcel in Join members of the Blue Zones task ancient Hawaiian tradition of outrigger Hawi. Hoea Moku helps provide and force, Waimea Outdoor Circle and canoe racing on the Big Island. determine material used in Makali‘i’s Malai‘ai Gardens for a walk-and-talk- Mon, Jan 4 The club’s dedication to promoting and maintenance and upkeep. The story to start the new year. Meet perpetuating outrigger canoe paddling project focuses on canoe plants that at Mala‘ai: The Culinary Garden Anna Ranch Heritage Center brings participants ranging in age from are native to Hawai‘i, plus supports of Waimea Middle School 7:30 am Films about Hawai‘i 10 to 80. Hawai‘i’s official team sport canoe construction, maintenance and Sunday, Jan 3 for Starbucks coffee Join John Antonelli, Matt Yamashita challenges kids by giving them a sense of sustainability. In addition, it offers crew, and tea. From there, walk to Waimea and Maribel Apuya as they discuss their direction and discipline. ‘ohana and community the opportunity Nature Park, ‘Ulu La‘au, to learn about experience and work in filmmaking Waimea Ocean Film Festival attendees to learn about the use and maintenance native plants from Waimea Outdoor around Hawai‘i, plus share a behind- are invited to join Kawaihae Canoe Club of these resources, both at Hoea, and Circle volunteers, before returning the-scenes look at their films, Roots of in Kawaihae Harbor 6:15-7:45 am Jan also on a larger scale with the natural to Mala‘ai, where information will ‘Ulu, Sons of Halawa and A Sakada Story. 2-4 to learn how to paddle an outrigger forest. be shared about the plants middle canoe. school students are growing and eating. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Participation is limited. Please sign up Anna Ranch Heritage Center The program finishes with a healthy Tom Mustill at the Hospitality Desk at Kahilu Theatre Marilyn Cohen and Sharon Katz breakfast demonstration and tasting Tom Mustill is often asked to make by 5 pm the evening prior. Participants Join Marilyn Cohen and Sharon Katz as with Chef Noah Hester from The Blue complex films on a tight deadline. should arrive 15 minutes early. they share behind-the-scenes stories Dragon Restaurant. Find out how the Shortlisted as a TED fellow for pushing about their experience in organizing Blue Dragon Farm in North Kohala grows the boundaries of documentary the 500-member student choir that food to support its restaurant and how television, Mustill shares behind-the- performed through South Africa, joined you can create tasty, freshly harvested scenes stories from the making of Inside by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, after meals. Please sign up at the festival Nature’s Giants, Bat Man of Mexico and Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Hospitality Desk by noon Saturday, How to Win the Grand National. Mustill Jan 2 to participate. also describes his unique, personal encounter with a humpback whale.

34 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 35 four seasons resort hualalai schedule

schedule January 4–8, 2016 four seasons breakfast talks mon JAN 4 tue jan 5 wed jan 6 thu jan 7 fri jan 8 Start your day with coffee, pastries and compelling conversation. Breakfast Talks are 8:15-9:15 am in Moana Terrace above ‛Ulu Ocean Grill.

Tue, Jan 5

Unbranded Join filmmaker Phillip Baribeau and cowboy Ben Masters as they share behind-the-scenes stories from the making of the film Unbranded, and their experience training the wild mustangs they ride 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada.

Wed, Jan 6

Garrett McNamara Join big wave surfer Garrett McNamara as he shares behind-the-scenes stories of being out in a monster swell. McNamara holds the Guiness World Record for the largest wave ever surfed, credited at 78 feet, with another unofficial ride of a wave estimated to be around 100 feet.

Thu, Jan 7

David Holbrooke Join David Holbrooke as he shares inside stories from the making of The Diplomat, from the unique level of access he was granted to his recent experience in showing The Diplomat before an audience at the United Nations.

Fri, Jan 8

Uncle Earl Regidor Join Uncle Earl Regidor as he shares stories about his family ‘aumākua, or guardian spirits, which are manō (shark) and pueo (owl). Having grown up on the Hāmākua Coast, Uncle Earl is both minister and kahu at Four Seasons Resort Hualālai, where he manages the Ka’ūpūlehu Cultural Center.

36 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 37 guest speakers and presentations

Hōkūle‘a Worldwide Voyage “The Indian Ocean is different than the Pacific Ocean.The Indian Ocean… has two hurricane seasons, two monsoon seasons and a high incidence Hōkūle‘a, the Pacific’s first voyaging 2015 Voyage of rogue waves as we go around the African coast. So it’s a place where canoe in modern times, began as you have to be careful, pay attention and you can sail well.” Australia a dream of reviving the legacy of In April 2015, Hōkūle‘a departed the Nainoa Thompson exploration, courage and ingenuity Pacific Ocean for the first time in that brought the first Polynesians to history and voyaged from New Zealand Honua Worldwide Voyage. From her Hawai‘i. With her successful voyage to to Australia. In early May, the canoe home in Hawai‘i to her first port of call Tahiti in 1976, Hōkūle‘a helped spark and her crewmembers made landfall in Richards Bay, Hōkūle‘a sailed 10,000 Pwo the renaissance of Hawaiian culture, in Sydney and sailed along the coast nautical miles (19,000 kilometers). bringing together people from all walks visiting significant environmental and The final leg, voyaging through the On March 18, 2007, Mau Piailug of life and inspiring hope and pride in a cultural sites until reaching her final unpredictable and sometimes dangerous inducted five Hawaiians and 11 way of life nearly forgotten. Australian destination of Darwin. Indian Ocean, brought new challenges Micronesians into Pwo, the ninth Hōkūle‘a embarked on the Pacific of 15 degrees in the Weriyeng Bali for the crew and concerns around safety leg of her voyage in late spring 2014, School of Navigation of Micronesia. Hōkūle‘a’s voyage to Bali from Australia were heightened. heading first towards Tahiti, and then The five Hawaiians were given took her across the Indian Ocean for “The Indian Ocean is different than to New Zealand. Here, she spent the honor and responsibility of the first time. For crewmembers, the the Pacific Ocean,” added Nainoa the winter in preparation, after carrying on Piailug’s teachings. route brought new and trying weather Thompson, Pwo (master) navigator and participating in a ceremony making Mau Piailug was a Micronesian conditions including variable winds and president of the Polynesian Voyaging Hōkūle‘a the sixth tribe of Tai Tokerau, master navigator from Satawal strong ocean currents. Society. “The Indian Ocean… has two coming full circle from the first arrival who brought the lost traditional In early August 2015, crewmembers hurricane seasons, two monsoon seasons of Hōkūle‘a in the same location on the art of wayfinding, or navigating landed in Bali where they visited and a high incidence of rogue waves as 1985 voyage. by sun, stars, wind and other traditional fishing villages and farms, we go around the African coast. So it’s a indicators, back to Hawai‘i. ancient temples and a cutting- place where you have to be careful, pay Nainoa Thompson©PolynesianVoyagingSociety. Pwo, as explained to Nainoa Photographer: Sam Kapoi, ‘Ōiwi TV edge “green” school, as they sought attention and you can sail well.” Thompson, is light, love, kindness opportunities to learn from the Balinese. It was with a sense of accomplishment, relief and excitement and compassion. If there are Mauritius when Hōkūle‘a and her crew arrived conflicts, the navigator must The next step of the voyage brought in Cape Town, South Africa in mid- resolve them; if there is sickness, Hōkūle‘a to Mauritius, where November. A Ceremony of Friendship the navigator’s responsibility is crewmembers received a warm was held to officially welcome and to heal; if there is damage, the welcome. The Indian Ocean leg had celebrate the historic arrival of navigator must repair it. His been of particular concern in planning Hōkūle‘a, which featured greeting kuleana is to sail and bring back the voyage and Mauritius marked a chants and a prayer of blessing gifts to his home island. critical midway point on this leg. During followed by traditional South African All five Pwo captains—Chad their time in Mauritius, Worldwide performances and hula by members Kālepa Baybayan, Milton “Shorty” Voyage crewmembers reached out to of the Hawai‘i delegation. Archbishop Bertelmann, Bruce Blankenfeld, the community, where they offered Desmond Tutu, who sailed on Hōkūle‘a Chadd ‘Onohi Paishon and Charles educational opportunities on traditional during his 2012 visit to Hawai‘i, also Nainoa Thompson—are working Polynesian non-instrument wayfinding attended the ceremony to greet and to navigate Hōkūle‘a through the and built relationships with the local engage with crewmembers and the Worldwide Voyage. Both Hōkūle‘a marine conservation community. Hawai‘i delegation. and Makali‘i crewmembers are South Africa Hōkūle‘a will spend the winter in assisting with the voyage. The final leg to South Africa marked Cape Town in dry dock and preparation the most ambitious leg of the Mālama for her historic Atlantic crossing in 2016.

38 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 39 guest speakers and presentations Chadd Paishon ©Na‘alehu Anthony

Makali‘i and Nā Kālai Wa‘a

After Hōkūle‘a’s maiden voyage, two quickly left Kawaihae for her maiden ‘ohana and community the opportunity young brothers from Waimea, Shorty voyage to the South Pacific. to learn about the use and maintenance and Clay Bertelmann, found themselves Since then, Nā Kālai Wa‘a, the of these resources, both at Hoea, and deeply connected to voyaging and the organization that oversees the voyaging also on a larger scale with the natural voyaging lifestyle. Shorty became one canoe Makali‘i, has developed several forest. of Papa Mau’s first students and Clay educational programs, including the The Kuikawa‘a apprenticeship sailing on her maiden voyage in 1995. quickly rose in the ranks of captain of ‘Imiloa High School Department of Edu- program works to increase the number Since then, Paishon has continued to sail Hōkūle‘a. cation (DOE) program in the late 1990s of canoe practitioners within Hawai‘i Makali‘i, overseeing the operation of the In the early 1990s, Clay Bertelmann and their on-going partnerships with Island communities. This program canoe as senior captain and executive came to understand that, to further Kamehameha Schools today. Because Nā exposes a cohort of apprentices to director of Nā Kālai Wa‘a. In this capacity, perpetuate voyaging, he needed to Kālai Wa‘a means “the canoe builders,” master practitioners and mentors, as he participates in the wa‘a leadership, provide a vessel whose main purpose the organization has also followed its well as to wa‘a experiences that include meeting regularly with the other Pwo was to function as an educational tool namesake with the construction of a canoe construction and maintenance, captains and in helping to captain and for Hawai‘i and the Pacific. He also second voyaging canoe, Aligano Maisu, advanced sailing and crew support, navigate the Worldwide Voyage, of which wanted to provide a canoe that would completed in 2007 and delivered to navigation and environmental he has led a number of legs. allow his brother Shorty to live as a Micronesia as a gift to Papa Mau and his engagement, protocol training and Paishon reflects, “there is a saying leadership development. that was started by Clay Bertelmann: “The canoe is our island so the island is our canoe, Every year since 2011, Nā Kālai Wa‘a ‘the canoe is our island so the island he wa‘a he moku he moku he wa‘a, we need to care has worked with the Waimea Ocean is our canoe, he wa‘a he moku he Film Festival to develop and host an moku he wa‘a, we need to care for our for our resources when on our wa‘a or on our moku.” exhibit on voyaging. This year, the resources when on our wa‘a or on our Clay Bertelmann Voyager Exhibit will share images from moku.’ The canoe always brings those the 2015 leg of the Worldwide Voyage of lessons home.” navigator and captain, while based from people in thanks of the rich voyaging Hōkūle‘a. Hawai‘i Island. legacy that he brought back to Hawai‘i. The Voyager Exhibit will also post an When the brothers approached the Today, Nā Kālai Wa‘a continues to updated world map, as developed for Please join Chadd Paishon and kupuna (elders) and Papa Mau about invite students and teachers from DOE, the festival last year, showing the route Nā Kālai Wa‘a members for an building another voyaging canoe, they charter, private, home and preschools of the Worldwide Voyage of Hōkūle‘a. opening of the exhibit at Kahilu were instructed to first build one in the to visit the organization’s sites, exhibits Theatre 4 pm Friday, Jan 1 and traditional manner. From this, Mauloa and vessels, offering canoe activities for a Breakfast Talk at Kahilu was born in 1991— a single-hulled, fish- aboard the vessels as well as on land. Theatre on Saturday, Jan 2. ing canoe made entirely out of natural The Nā Kālai Wa‘a E Lauhoe Wa‘a Captain Chadd materials found in Hawai‘i and custom- Education Development Program Also join Chadd Paishon as part arily utilized for canoe construction. provides Hawai‘i Island Educators with ‘Onohi Paishon of the discussion following After her successful completion, the culturally grounded canoe experiences showing of Worth the Risk and brothers were given permission to build that support their educational success. Chadd ‘Onohi Paishon is one of the five Hokulea: Proud Voyage Home at their own voyaging canoe, Makali‘i. Hoea Moku is the canoe sustainability Hawaiian Pwo captains inducted by Mao Kahilu Theatre 1:45 pm Friday, After nine months under construction project currently housed at Nā Kālai Piailug and is senior captain of Makali‘i. Jan 1, at Fairmont Orchid 11:15 in a Quonset hut on Parker Ranch in Wa‘a’s 10-acre parcel in Hawi. The Paishon was a crewmember on the am Monday, Jan 4 and at Four Waimea, and with the dedication and project focuses on canoe plants that 1992 voyage of Hōkūle‘a for Tahiti, after Seasons 9:30 am Friday, Jan 8 and love of a whole island community are native to Hawai‘i, plus supports which point he joined Clay and Shorty as part of the ‘Imiloa Wayfinding and the Kohala district, Makali‘i was canoe construction, maintenance and Bertelmann’s efforts in the construction presentation at Four Seasons launched on February 4, 1995. Makali‘i sustainability. The project offers crew, of the 54-foot voyaging canoe Makali‘i, 11:30 am Friday, Jan 8.

40 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 41 guest speakers and presentations

He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above; M. Sanjayan, PhD

A Navigation Starter M. Sanjayan, PhD, is a global conservation scientist, writer and Join Apprentice Navigator Celeste Celeste “Cesi” Manuia Ha‘o Emmy-nominated news contributor Manuia Ha‘o of the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Celeste “Cesi” Manuia Ha‘o is an Center, Makali‘i Captain Chadd ‘Onihi specializing in the role of conservation Paishon and the ‘Imiloa Astronomy education associate for ‘Imiloa as a means to improve human well- Center for an interactive session that Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i and an being. He serves on Conservation introduces participants to the basic apprentice navigator. When Celeste International’s senior leadership team skill set essential to the practice of Ha‘o was 17, her grandfather bestowed as executive vice president and senior wayfinding, the oceanic art of non- her the title of “taupou,” the highest scientist. instrument navigation. title a woman can have in Samoa’s Last summer, Sanjayan co-hosted traditional society, which designates With material and a portable dome Big Blue Live, PBS’s and BBC’s three- provided by ‘Imiloa, view the Hawaiian one who is responsible for looking after part television event, which showcased navigational star lines and how they are the well being of her village. In August marine life on the Pacific Coast and tracked in the night sky. Orient yourself 2014, Ha‘o co-navigated Hōkūle‘a as which was the first live primetime to the four cardinal directions on a an apprentice navigator from Aitutaki, natural history show on American traditional star compass, learn the star Cook Islands to the island of Samoa, paths that celestial bodies’ takes as where her family village of Faleapuna television. His other recent television they transit across the sky and how the is located. For her, this voyage was projects include the 2015 PBS television waves and wind pass through the canoe of extreme significance as it was series, EARTH: A New Wild and when on the open-ocean. a fulfillment of her promise to her Showtime’s Years of Living Dangerously, Taken from a lesson at a traditional grandfather 10 years in the making to the 2014 Emmy-winning series on the ©Ami Vitale seaside canoe house, participants are navigate and return to their islands the impact of climate change. invited to learn about course strategy, way her ancestors once did...“by way of Sanjayan also led the launch of of National Geographic Society’s holding direction by the overhead the sea and the stars.” He also required Nature Is Speaking, Conservation Explorers Council, a distinguished star field and determining latitude group of top scientists, researchers by calibrating the body and mind she share the knowledge she gained International’s critically acclaimed to the pulse of the night sky. Come as an apprentice under Pwo navigator campaign that delivers a powerful and explorers who provide advice and learn, explore and discover—as did the Kālepa Baybayan. His hope, as is hers, message. counsel to the society across disciplines early settlers of these islands—that in was that it would inspire their Samoan His peer-reviewed scientific work has and projects. Sanjayan writes for Orion leaving the safety of the coastline, you community to leave their shores once been published in journals including magazine, The Huffington Post and discover the stars. again the way their kupuna did and Science, Nature and Conservation Fortune China, and posts frequently Chad Kālepa Baybayan is the to bring navigation back to the place Biology, and his expertise has attracted from his expeditions at @msanjayan. navigator in residence at the ‘Imiloa where it all began. national media coverage in Outside, Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i, TIME National Geographic, AFAR, Grist developing curricula and materials Join M. Sanjayan, PhD, for discussion and The New York Times. Men’s Journal that engage people of all ages in the Join Apprentice Navigator Celeste following the showing of clips from tapped him to the 2015 list of “50 Most indigenous art of celestial wayfinding. Manuia Ha‘o of the ‘Imiloa the PBS production of Big Blue Live Adventurous Men.” ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i, Astronomy Center and Makali‘i at HPA Gates 4:15 pm Saturday, Jan a part of the University of Hawai‘i at Sanjayan is a Clinton Global Initiative Captain Chadd ‘Onihi Paishon for 2 and following the showing Of Ants Hilo, opened its doors on February 20, Senior Advisor, a Catto Fellow at the the Wayfinding Skill Set presentation and Men at Kahilu Theatre 6 pm 2006. The $28 million, 40,000-square- at Four Seasons 11:30 am Friday, Jan Aspen Institute and an Ambassador for foot, state-of-the-art exhibition and Saturday, Jan 2. 8. The presentation will take place DisneyNature films. He is also a member planetarium complex is located above in the ballroom, near the festival the UH-Hilo campus on nine acres in the University of Hawai‘i’s Science and Hospitality Desk. Technology Park.

42 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 43 guest speakers and presentations

work to the broader public. He was Award and the Boston Sea Rovers’ 2013 senior editor of the Marine Technology Diver of the Year. His most recent Society Journal, is a world authority on book, Underwater Eden, was released New Zealand’s Hector’s dolphin, one December, 2012 by University of of the world’s most endangered, is an Chicago Press. undersea technology and exploration specialist using deep-sea submersibles, has produced an award-winning series Join Greg Stone, PhD, for discussion of marine conservation films and has following showing of Ocean Stories: lectured throughout the world. He has Greg Stone at HPA Gates 2:15 also written prolifically for science and pm Saturday, Jan 2 and at Four popular publications including Nature Seasons 6:30 pm Monday, Jan 4; and National Geographic magazine. following showing of Paradise Found: Dr. Stone is a National Fellow of the Phoenix Islands at HPA Gates 2:15 Explorers Club, a recipient of the Pew pm Saturday, Jan 2 and at Four Fellowship for Marine Conservation, Seasons 8:15 pm Monday, Jan 4; and an honorary associate professor following showing of Teddy Tucker: at the Leigh Marine Laboratory at Adventure is My Life at HPA Gates the University of Auckland, New 12:45 pm Saturday, Jan 2 and at Four Zealand, and was named one of the Seasons 8:15 pm Monday, Jan 4. Also Gregory S. Stone, PhD five “Bostonians of the Year” by the join Dr. Stone for a Breakfast Talk at Boston Globe in 2008. In 2013, he Mauna Kea on Sunday, Jan 3. was presented with the Wyland ICON Greg Stone, PhD, is executive vice Science Foundation/U.S. Navy Antarctic president and head of Science and Service medal for research in the Oceans for Conservation International. Antarctic and his book, Ice Island, won Dr. Stone is one of the world’s leading the 2003 National Outdoor Book Award authorities on marine conservation for Nature and the Environment. Since 2000, Dr. Stone has led the effort to create one of policy and ocean health issues. A Since 2000, Dr. Stone has led the the world’s largest marine protected areas around the lifelong scientific explorer and prolific effort to create one of the world’s diver, with more than 8,000 dives to largest marine protected areas Phoenix Islands in Kiribati using, for the first time, market- date in every ocean, he has lived in around the Phoenix Islands in Kiribati based mechanisms to conserve ocean biodiversity, which an underwater habitat for 30 days and using, for the first time, market- dived to 18,000 feet in submersibles. based mechanisms to conserve ocean encourage economic opportunity for local communities. Dr. Stone is currently on the World biodiversity, which encourage economic For this accomplishment he was named one of National Economic Forum’s Global Council on opportunity for local communities. For Ocean Governance, is a TEDGlobal this accomplishment he was named Geographic Society’s Heroes of 2007 and is considered an speaker and has appeared in multiple one of National Geographic Society’s authority on these innovative marine conservation models. Discovery Channel and National Heroes of 2007 and is considered an Dr. Stone has also been involved with the creation of the Geographic documentaries. authority on these innovative marine Born in Boston, Dr. Stone is an ocean conservation models. Dr. Stone has also Oceans Health Index and the Pacific Oceanscape initiatives. scientist who did early pioneering been involved with the creation of the research in Antarctica on marine Oceans Health Index and the Pacific mammals and later ice ecology, where Oceanscape initiatives. he mastered the art of diving into Dr. Stone has a passion for marine icebergs. He was awarded the National technology and for communicating his

44 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 45 guest speakers and presentations

Garrett McNamara at Jaws©Ron Dahquist Garrett McNamara at Shore Break©Clark Little

Garrett McNamara

Garrett McNamara holds the Guinness Eddie Aikau, or The Eddie, considered Humanitarian work and efforts on Join Garrett McNamara for World Record for surfing the largest one of the greatest honors in big wave behalf of the protection of the ocean discussion following the showing of wave ever surfed, which he caught surfing. and environment are important to Nazaré Calling at Kahilu Theatre in Nazaré Portugal, credited at 78 In recent years, McNamara began the McNamara and he has worked hand- 1:30 pm Sunday, Jan 3 and at Four feet, with another unofficial ride of a pursuit of SUP (stand-up paddleboard) in-hand with Oceania, One Drop, Heal Seasons 6 pm Tuesday, Jan 5 and for wave estimated to be around 100 feet. and gave it his own twist by designing the Bay, Surfers Healing, Covenant discussion following the showing Recently he was the first foreigner to be and creating SUP boards for a more House, Marconi Foundation, Surfrider of Behind the Lines and Deeper at awarded the prestigious Vasco de Gama extreme experience, venturing into Foundation, Red Cross, Mavericks Kahilu Theatre 3:15 pm Sunday, Medal of Honor from the Portuguese big wave venues like Waimea, Puerto Rescue Team and Surfers Environmental Jan 3 and at Four Seasons 7:30 pm Navy. Escondido and Mavericks. He was Foundation. Every year McNamara Tuesday, Jan 5. Also join McNamara McNamara has received multiple invited to compete in the World Stand volunteers time with Surfers Healing, for a Breakfast Talk at Four Seasons Billabong XXL awards and honors, Up Paddle Surfing Championship in where he shares the healing power of on Wednesday, Jan 6. including Performance of the Year on June 2009 by the International Surfing surfing with autistic children. multiple occasions. He has several Association where only 32 elite surfers Garrett and his wife Nicole split their first- and second-place finishes in elite were asked to attend time between Nazaré, Portugal, and big wave surfing competitions and been Haleiwa, on the island of O‘ahu, where invited to participate in the 2015/2016 he was raised. Quicksilver Invitational in Memory of

46 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 47 guest speakers and presentations

Ben Masters Phillip Baribeau Join Ben Masters and Phillip Baribeau for discussion and book Ben Masters is a conservationist, horse Phillip Baribeau earned a degree in signing following showing of trainer, guide, filmmaker, author media and theatre arts from Montana Unbranded at Kahilu Theatre 3 pm and photographer. He splits his time State University in 2003. Following Saturday, Jan 2, at Fairmont Orchid between Montana, Texas and the his passion for film, storytelling and 2:45 pm Sunday, Jan 3, at Parker mountains in-between. Masters writes adventure, he went to work in television Theatre 7:45 pm Sunday, Jan 3 and for Western Horseman Magazine and documentary filmmaking. He learned at Four Seasons 7 pm Wedneday, Jan and produces content for National what it takes to produce a story while 6. Also join Masters and Baribeau for Geographic Adventure. capturing engaging cinematic images. a Breakfast Talk at Anna Ranch on In 2010, Masters and two friends In 2008, Baribeau founded Implement Sunday, Jan 3. completed a 2,000-mile ride along the Productions, based in Continental Divide. Short on funds, Bozeman, Montana, they adopted a number of mustangs working on a wide range for $125 each from the Bureau of Land of films, television, web Management to supplement their string advertisement, events of quarter horses. To their surprise, the and commercials. His mustangs outperformed the domestic A native Texan, Masters graduated commercial clients horses at every turn. Intrigued, Masters from Texas A&M with a degree in include Teva Footwear, inquired into the wild horse controversy, wildlife biology. During college, he Black Diamond, Federal discovering 50,000 unwanted wild attended classes in the spring, led Ammunition and horses and burros live in government- horseback rides in Yellowstone during Sportsman’s Warehouse. leased pens and pastures and are in the summer, guided Wyoming elk hunts need of permanent homes. To tell their in the fall and managed Jacalon Ranch story, the idea for Unbranded was born. in South Texas over the winter.

48 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 49 guest speakers and presentations

Chris Bertish

Born and raised in Cape Town, South Bertish went on to break a string Africa, Chris Bertish is the youngest of of world records paddling on his three brothers in a family of outgoing, SUP (stand-up paddleboard) to raise outdoor-loving people with a deep money for charities, including Miles connection to the ocean. Taking after for Smiles organization, for which he his father—a stuntman and waterman is an ambassador. He has set multiple who lived life to the fullest—Chris has world records, two in 2013 for the always held onto his father’s mottos of fastest English Channel crossing and “Live with no regrets” and “Never ever, the first-ever Source to Sea adventure ever give up.” over four consecutive days with less From an early age Chris pushed then six hours sleep. In 2014 he set a himself ever harder to keep up with his new Guinness World Record for the 12- older brothers and that early resilience, hour, open-ocean distance record. Next dedication and determination lie at the year, he aims to be the first person to core of everything he does. As he drove SUP solo across the Atlantic Ocean, for himself forward in his surfing career, which he is due to embark in November Bertish became a pioneer of paddling 2016 from Morocco. into larger waves, and was the first Over the past five years, Chris to paddle into Jaws in 2000. In 2010, has become a sought-after global Bertish paddled into the biggest wave motivational keynote and TEDx guest ever surfed at the Mavericks Big Wave speaker. He inspires audiences to Invitational Event in Half Moon Bay, believe that, with the right hard work, California, winning the event. self-belief, focus and attitude, they can achieve great things. Chris Bertish at Todos Santos ©Jason Murray

Join Chris Bertish for discussion following showing of Ocean Driven and a booksigning of Stoked at Fairmont Orchid 1:15 pm Friday, Jan 1, at Kahilu Theatre 12:30 pm Saturday, Jan, 2, at Fairmont Orchid 1 pm Monday, Jan 4 and at Four Seasons 12:45 pm Tuesday, Jan 5. Also join Bertish for a Breakfast Talk at Mauna Kea on Saturday, Jan 2.

50 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 51 guest speakers and presentations

©David O. Brown

Drew Harvell, PhD

Drew Harvell, PhD, is a professor of Publications by Dr. Harvell and environmental conditions causing ecology and evolutionary biology have appeared in Science, Nature, widespread sea star mass mortality in at Cornell University, where she Proceedings of National Academy U.S. waters. She is currently a senior teaches courses in marine ecology, of Sciences, Ecology, Public Library scientist at The Kohala Center, Hawai‘i, marine invertebrate biodiversity and of Science, Biology and Frontiers in and Fellow of the Ecological Society of conservation oceanography. She is a Ecology and the Environment. Dr. America. past director for environment at the Harvell has received support from the Curator of the Blaschka Marine Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future NSF, the Global Environmental Fund, Invertebrates Collection at Cornell, and a current faculty fellow. National Geographic, NOAA and the Dr. Harvell recently authored the Dr. Harvell has authored over Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future. book, A Sea of Glass: Searching for the 120 research papers and is widely Dr. Harvell’s laboratory research Blaschka’s Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at recognized for work on health of focuses on the ecology of infectious Risk, to be released in 2016. marine ecosystems, chairing both the disease and ocean sustainability. A World Bank Targeted Research Program subtheme of this work includes on Coral Health and the National evaluating the impacts of a warming Join Drew Harvell, PhD for Center for Ecological Analysis and climate on coral reef ecosystems. discussion following showing of A Synthesis program on the Ecology of Projects in her lab involve multi- Fragile Legacy at HPA Gates 11 am Marine Disease. She currently leads disciplinary, cross-scale approaches, Saturday, Jan 2, at Fairmont Orchid a group of scientists in a National including field studies, remote sensing, 9:30 am Monday, Jan 4 and at Four Science Foundation (NSF)-funded study genetics, chemical analyses and Seasons 11:15 am Tuesday, Jan 5. investigating how a changing climate mathematical modeling. One recent might increase outbreaks of infectious project focuses on detection of a virus disease in the ocean.

52 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 53 guest speakers and presentations

Mike Stewart at Pipeline. Photo©Jeff Hornbaker. Mike Stewart receives his first award for wave riding at Magic Sands in ona,K 1979. Photo©Bob Fewell. Mike Stewart

Born in Honolulu, Mike Stewart gained calls “freedom.” As filmmaker Chris Join Mike Stewart for introduction and discussion following showing of Come Hell or fame as a bodysurfer and wave rider. Malloy notes, “Bodysurfing is the purest Highwater at Kahilu Theatre 11:15 am Sunday, Jan 3, along with discussion following Stewart boasts 13 World Bodysurf and most difficult way to master the act a short clip in which he is featured. Champion Titles, a total of 24 Pipeline of riding a wave and most aficionados Titles overall, and is considered the regard Mike Stewart as the best world’s best bodysurfer and among the bodysurfer there has ever been.” most accomplished wave riders. Stewart claims over 25 cover shots Recognized as one of the top 50 most during his career; is a recipient of influential surfers of all time by Surfer the Quicksilver Waterman of the Year Magazine, Stewart inspired millions to award; was a pioneer of big-wave, tow- ride waves unimaginable before, such in surfing; and has written over 100 as Teahupoo and Pipeline. Per surfer articles for various publications. In 1992, Kelly Slater, “Stewart was one of my he founded Mike Stewart, Inc., and sells original tube-riding inspirations.” products in over 20 countries, with nine Stewart loves the fact that when patents in his name. Stewart resides in you swim out with just your fins to the town of Waimea on the Big Island bodysurf, you are stripping everything of Hawai‘i with his wife Lisa and two off with no constraints, a feeling he children.

54 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 55 guest speakers and presentations

Wyland ©Alannah Avelin Wyland

Renowned marine life artist Wyland changed the way people think about our environment when he started painting life-size whales on the sides of buildings in the 1980s. Wyland always thought big and never stopped. Through his unique marine life paintings, sculptures and photography, Wyland has inspired a generation. The multi-faceted artist, SCUBA diver, educator and explorer has hosted several television programs, including Wyland’s Ocean World series on the Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet Network, Wyland: A Brush With Giants and Wyland’s Art Studio, a series for national public television. His mission of Since 1993, the non-profit Wyland engaging people through nature-themed Foundation has worked in partnership Susan and Greg Goggin – Ocean Stories art to live a more environmentally with the U.S. Forest Service and friendly lifestyle has led to strategic National Oceanographic and “To record ocean heroes telling their In 2009-2010, Susan and Greg Goggin alliances with such notable Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to Ocean Stories for a larger audience produced a series of ocean-themed organizations as the U.S. Olympic Team, actively engage millions of students is what we set out to do,” noted special events for the Ocean Institute United Nation Environment Programme around the world to become caring, Executive Producer and series Co- in Dana Point, California. The audience and Walt Disney Studios, to name a few. informed stewards of our ocean, rivers, Creator Greg Goggin. “The ocean is response to the live interviews was so Wyland’s 100th and final monumental lakes, estuaries and wetlands. the story and connects all of us in a immediate; the Goggins were inspired marine life mural, Hands Across the The extent of Wyland public artworks, fundamental way.” to do more. Oceans—a 24,000-square-foot, half- his award-winning art galleries and Partnering with award-winning mile-long series of canvas murals with community service projects have made director Patrick Creadon, the couple Join Susan and Greg Goggin for student artists from 110 countries—was him one of the most recognized artists created a new series of films, Ocean displayed in October 2008 at the in the nation. He is considered one of Stories, which capture the special lives discussion following showing of Ocean Stories: Greg Stone at HPA National Mall in Washington, DC and the most influential artists of the 21st of individuals inspired by the ocean. honored by the National Park Service, Century, with artwork in museums, Explorers, artists, scientists, filmmakers, Gates 2:15 pm Saturday, Jan 2 and at Four Seasons 6:30 pm Monday, Smithsonian Institution, White House corporate collections and private homes. surfers and more were provided a forum Council on Environmental Quality and to share life-changing moments above Jan 4 and following showing of Ocean Stories: Wyland at Kahilu the U.S. Department of the Interior. In and below the surface, plus in and Join Wyland for introduction Theatre 11:15 am Sunday, Jan 3. May 2010, the United Nations released around the ocean. six Wyland images for an international and discussion following showing What’s it like to ride a 70-foot wave? stamp issue celebrating the 50th of Ocean Stories: Wyland at Kahilu When did the ocean become your Anniversary of the Intergovernmental Theatre 11:15 am Sunday, Jan 3. life’s work? Questions were asked and Oceanographic Commission. answered by people with a powerful relationship to the sea and unique stories to tell.

56 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 57 guest speakers and presentations

Tom Mustill

Tom Mustill is a freelance director based out of London, focusing on natural history, observational films, animation and music video. His most recent film is Natural World: The Bat Man of Mexico, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. ©Beverly Warns Before that he directed the RTS nominated How To Win The Grand Beamer Solomon Hālau o Po‘ohala National for Oxford Scientific Films, the multi-award winning and Grierson- Leiomalama Tamasese Solomon is the Their friend and colleague, Kumu Keala nominated Natural World Special: Join Tom Mustill following showing of sixth generation cultural practitioner Ching, portrays the hula master in the Kangaroo Dundee for BBC2/Discovery The Bat Man of Mexico at HPA Gates of the Beamer Solomon’s 155-year film which was shown at the festival and the special episodes of the multi- 1:45 pm Friday, Jan 1, at Fairmont hula legacy dating back to King David last year, Līhau’s Journey. Kumu Keala award-winning (BAFTA, RTS, Broadcast) Orchid 3:15 pm Friday, Jan 1, at Kalakaua and the Hawaiian Kingdom. is the founder of the Na Wai Iwi Ola series Inside Nature’s Giants for Parker Theatre 11:30 am Saturday, Leiomalama is the hula mua, or lead Foundation whose mission is dedicated Windfall Films and Channel 4 in the UK. Jan 2 and at Four Seasons 11:30 am dancer and soloist of Hālau o Po‘ohala. to the preservation and perpetuation Through his production company, Friday, Jan 8; and following How to The hālau’s hula master (Loea) and of hula. Gripping Films, Mustill works to create Win the Grand National at HPA Gates cultural keeper of the Beamer Solomon innovative, entertaining films – telling 9:30 am Saturday, Jan 2, at Fairmont method of dance is Leiomalama’s Aunt, great stories about a complex world. He Orchid 1:00 pm Sunday, Jan 3, at Three dancers from the Beamer Hulali Solomon Covington. Hula Loea was selected as a Broadcast magazine Kahilu Theatre 11:30 am Monday, Solomon Hālau O Po‘ohala will Covington’s sister, Malama Solomon, is Hot Shot for his quick rise to director of Jan 4 and at Four Seasons 3:30 pm share hula at Four Seasons 6 pm the hālau’s kakau ‘olelo (historian). high profile, innovative and landmark Thursday, Jan 7. Also join Mustill for Wednesday, Jan 6. television programs and was shortlisted a Breakfast Talk at Mauna Kea on as a TED fellow for pushing the Monday, Jan 4. boundaries of documentary television. Ocean Media Institute Chelsea Morriss The Ocean Media Institute (OMI) is a Join OMI founders, Gianna Savoie global media collective that serves and Jeff Reed, as they set up at HPA Born and raised on the Big Island, as a creative hub for individuals and Gates Jan 2 and 3, with the offer to Morriss has always been intrigued by the organizations worldwide. Its goal is film attendees who wish to share complexities of the human body. to work in collaboration with artists, their ocean experience. Morriss seeks to foster deep-seated filmmakers, organizations, academic healing through yoga and Ayurvedic institutions, aquaria and museums to principles. Through her knowledge produce, exhibit and distribute media of Ayurveda and Health Coaching, that contributes to public understanding Morriss hopes to teach clients simple, of ocean science. sustainable tools to integrate into Join Chelsea Morriss for sunrise yoga everyday life to improve overall health 7-8 am Jan 2-4 at the Mauna Kea and wellness. Beach Hotel.

58 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 59 guest speakers and presentations

We laughed, partly to be alive, and and full breaches where they land on I thought the humpback whale was about to partly because we didn’t know what their back (or side). Your whale did a land on us. Did it turn away deliberately? else to do. The half-hour paddle to full breach, but rotated and landed on shore seemed so long; at the dock we the throat. This is unusual, and might started to shake. Our instructor gave us indicate that it was surprised by your By Tom Mustill the US, but is recovering. While we hot chocolate and a free hat, and told presence when it breached and saw you. This article originally appeared in The looked at their new sea robots, out of us this had never happened in 30 years. Perhaps turning like that allowed it to Guardian and is reprinted with the author’s the window whales were feeding just We agreed that no one would ever put a softer part of its body next to you permission. offshore. We were told it was unusual believe us – and they didn’t really until to cause less damage (compared with For the last few days I have been kept that so many were there – instead of a video popped up online two days later. a body slam using the bone of the skull awake, and looking up in the dark I just dropping by to feed while on their I am now left with a question: did the that they might employ while fighting). see the whale again. The barnacles on migration, some had even been staying whale do it on purpose? I think you two survived because the its skin, the grooves on its throat, its all year round. When kayaking we soon saw the bigness. I try to comprehend the forces “Your whale did a full breach, but rotated and landed on the it used to throw itself into the air and whales up close. We could see them which released when it crashed back feed, slap their fins on the water and throat. This is unusual, and might indicate that it was surprised down. My friend, Charlotte Kinloch, who sometimes pop their heads up to look by your presence when it breached and saw you. Perhaps turning was in the kayak with me, that morning around. Downwind we smelled the fishy has been kept awake with the same im- ozone of their breath. In the distance like that allowed it to put a softer part of its body next to you to age – the whale hovering above our beds. we saw some partial breaches – whales cause less damage (compared with a body slam using the bone of For some reason things are often throwing themselves up out of the water measured in buses. The old London and crashing back in a white explosion. the skull that they might employ while fighting). I think you two Routemaster was 30 feet long. An adult After a couple of hours we turned survived because the whale cared about trying not to hit you.” for home. All of a sudden without humpback whale is 10 to 20 feet longer. Professor Joy Reidenberg Imagine something bigger than a bus warning, the water nearby to our right hovering above you, blocking the sun. A gave way to an adult whale shooting humpback isn’t a metal box, it is filled upwards, like a space shuttle taking off: with bone and muscle, heart and brain. a huge block of living thing impossibly There are many theories about why whale cared about trying not to hit you.” Last week on holiday in California, held in the air. The only thing my brain whales breach: to get rid of parasites, I’ve looked back and there is a photo Charlotte and I had signed up to a kayak registered was quite calmly that when to communicate, to fight, to display. All of the whale landing which seems to tour to see the whales of Monterey Bay. it came down I was going to die. Then of these may be true. Dolphins have back up Joy’s theory. As it turned above At 6 am on Saturday we paddled out it fell, and I was underwater. I felt a been shown to recognize themselves in us it would have looked down on our in a two-man kayak, sea lions snorted yawing next to me and I was tossed the mirror; humpback whales carry von craft. It didn’t crush us as it fell, or from the water around us. Our guide, around. I think this was the body or tail economo neurons in the brain – a sign injure us in the water, and it moved Sean, explained to stay 100 yards from of the whale and I get a funny feeling that they have emotions. We know that away very slowly. the whales and not paddle towards in my guts when I think back on this.I they have complex social relationships. When I lie in bed looking up at the them. Beneath us was a great gulf, an came to the surface. I saw Charlotte to There is no reason to think that they whale in my mind, I think how lucky we underwater chasm deeper than the my left and our kayak had a dent in the don’t think and feel things deeply. are not to have continued to get rid of Grand Canyon, home to an abundance front. I was waiting for the pain to start, Professor Joy Reidenberg from the them as we have done until recently. of food for marine life – although it has but it didn’t. Other kayakers came to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai It is strange that we search so avidly not always been this way. our aid, someone fished Charlotte’s flip- in New York, a whale specialist whom for aliens outside of this planet and The previous morning we had visited flops from the water. Our friend who I worked with on a documentary series are obsessed with creating artificial the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research was in another kayak was very shaken. called Inside Nature’s Giant’s, told me: minds, while knowing so little about the Institute. Monterey Bay used to be She had seen the whale land where we “Humpback whales usually breach in two workings of these enormous thinking one of the most polluted shorelines in were, and then it was gone, and we – ways: chin slaps where half the body animals in the sea. and our kayak – were gone too. emerges and they land on their throat,

60 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 61 guest speakers and presentations

2012 TEDx NYC conference and his film The Birth of Saké received The Best Documentary Director Special Jury Mention at Tribeca Film Festival. Gary Young In 2008, Erik launched his own production company, Cebu Osani A love of surfing, a genius for Creative, as a way to produce original, innovation and design, and a desire compelling and visually cinematic to live a simpler life led Gary Young content. It has the goal of producing from an electro-mechanical designer, Erik Shirai one-of-a-kind content with integrity and to builder of wood sailboats, to his respect. longstanding passion for creating Erik Shirai is a New York City-based more sustainable Natural Fiber cinematographer and filmmaker who Composites for surfboards. works around the world on narrative Join Erik Shirai for discussion As part of his evolvement, Young features, documentaries and TV following the showing of Birth invented vacuum bag surfboard productions. His work can be seen of Saké at Fairmont Orchid 6 pm lamination, a greener method of on National Geographic, PBS and on Saturday, Jan 2, at Kahilu Theatre creating a surfboard that is light in the Emmy award-winning show, No 3:30 pm Monday, Jan 4 and at Four weight, has high strength and uses Reservation, with Anthony Bourdain. Seasons 6 pm Thursday, Jan 7. less resin. Today, Young uses bamboo, Shirai’s efforts were featured at the albizia, koa and mango woods in his designs. He pioneered bamboo- two additional short films that will skinned surfboards more than 16 Maribel Apuya comprise The Sakada Series. years ago and his current board types are split into two basic groups: Maribel Apuya is an independent a lightweight, high-performance, Filipino-American writer and filmmaker Join Maribel Apuya for discussion durable eco-board called “Wooden raised in Hawai‘i. She is a graduate following the showing of A Sakada Classics Hawai‘i” and Ala‘ia Lite, of Waipahu High School (Magna Cum Story at Fairmont Orchid 1 pm a replica of the ancient “ala‘ia” including: Surfer, Santa Barbara Laude) and the University of Hawai‘i Saturday, Jan 2, at Parker Theatre surfboards. Independent, Surfing, Surfer’s Path, at Manoa, where she was both a 11:15 am Sunday, Jan 3, at Parker Both boards, Young says, “are Surfers Journal, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Presidential Scholar and a National Theatre 1:15 pm Monday, Jan 4 an expression of my passion for National Geographic, Hana Hou, Rolling Science Foundation Scholar. and at Four Seasons 11:30 am making real, durable, lightweight Stone, NY Times, Outside and LA The former Miss Hawaii Filipina Thursday, Jan 7. Also join Apuya for boards with recyclable foam cores, Times. Young has earned the respect spent a decade in New York City a Breakfast Talk at Anna Ranch on a minimum of oil based materials and admiration of the surfing world, training in theatre performance. She Monday, Jan 4. and using guitar-thin laminated both locally and internationally. He attended the Neighborhood Playhouse wood/epoxy skins without the use of has laminated surf and sailboards for School of the Theater, a two-year fiberglass.” champions Sunny Garcia, Robby Naish, acting conservatory and worked with Young holds two patents and is Phil Edwards, Rusty Kealana, Nat Young renowned theater companies such as credited with several inventions: and Laird Hamilton. SITI Theater, Shakespeare & Company, Solar-heated vacuum bag laminating the Linklater Center and others. She is frame; Compound curve laminated currently writing her first feature film as wood veneer/epoxy skinned surf Gary Young’s surfboards will be on exhibit at The Fairmont Orchid part of UCLA’s Professional Program in and sail boards; and bamboo/epoxy Screenwriting. laminated skin surfboards, sailboards, in the lower ballroom area by the festival Hospitality Desk and Lehua Maribel Apuya’s first documentary kiteboards, canoe hulls and paddles. short, A Sakada Story, made its debut Young has given numerous Theatre Jan 1-4 and at Four Seasons Jan 5-8. in New York City at the Philippine presentations on his methods and Consulate General NYC, as part of a been featured in several magazines, summer movie series. She is producing

62 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 63 guest speakers and presentations

Bonnie Cherni Martina Wedig-Wing

At the age of 15, Bonnie Cherni Trained as an environmental engineer, was inspired to fold origami when a Martina Wing fell in love with the ocean Japanese exchange student presented in 1998 after scuba diving with manta interviews from CNN, CBS, BBC UK, her mother with an origami book, rays for the first time. Changing her life FoxNews, ABC with Diane Sawyer, written entirely in Japanese. Cherni was to dedicate time to the water, Wing now Good Morning America, KITV, KHON2, intrigued. Her passion bloomed when co-owns the production company Ocean Associated Press, Reuters, several she discovered John Montroll’s origami Wings Hawai‘i, which specializes in German TV stations and Globo TV books, which provided clear instruction underwater photography in the Kailua- (Brazil), among others. in English. From these manuals, she Kona area. Over the past decade, Wing To date, Wing’s video, Dolphin taught herself the art and continues to has logged over 3,000 dives with manta Rescue, has received over 23 million use his books in her classes today. rays, providing video services to boat views on YouTube. Martina Wing returns Bonnie creates everything from operators that frequent what is known the festival to share this video on miniature to life-sized origami locally as the manta ray dive site. the big screen, along with additional sculpture, in mediums ranging from In 2013, video footage taken by footage taken of Notch, the dolphin, paper, aluminum, copper and canvas. Martina became an international one year later. Her company, Epic Origami, embodies sensation, as a dolphin entered the many mediums and to approach art as the idea of folding sturdy sculptures manta ray dive site near Kailua-Kona and part of a daily lifestyle for achieving a that can live out in the world. appeared to wait by divers for assistance Join Martina Wedig-Wing for fulfilling life. Recent works include Safari in detanglement from fishing gear. discussion following the showing of Cherni has lived on the Big Island of Adventure (Paper on Foil, 2013), Great After the dive, Wing uploaded the Dolphin Rescue at Fairmont Orchid Hawai‘i for 15 years, sharing her talents White Shark (Canvas on Foil, 2013), video she had taken. Two weeks later, 11:15 am Sunday, Jan 3. with the community. The artist inspires Penguins on Ice (Paper on Foil, 2014), her phone didn’t stop ringing, as she children and adults to experience the and That’s a Big Bug (Copper Mesh, received requests for footage and wonder of origami – creating form out 2012). Cherni’s mother, an art professor of simplicity. and accomplished artist, trained Cherni “Folding feels like magic in your at an early age to proficiently work in hands,” she details. “A flat square Phil Arnone stands up on its feet and looks at you. This miracle of math always amazes me.” Phil Arnone established himself early in In collaboration with husband Steven his career as a producer and director Epstein, Bonnie enjoys creating RedCAT, of high quality television programming a web app, and finding time to ride while working for KGMB in Honolulu. horses, play violin, travel, snowboard More recently, he directed and and dabble in aerial arts. produced a series of exceptional, made- for-TV documentaries in conjunction with KGMB and written by Robert Join Bonnie Cherni for origami Pennybacker. The documentaries classes on ocean art at The Fairmont feature the history and culture of the Orchid noon-3 pm Jan 1-4. islands, plus the people and heroes most beloved by Hawai‘i. These include Join Phil Arnone for discussion Hōkūle‘a: Passing the Torch, Eddie following the showing of Hōkūle‘a: Aikau - A Hawaian Hero, Brothers Proud Voyage Home at Four Seasons Cazimero, Duke Kahanamoku - Hawai‘i’s 9:30 am Friday, Jan 8. Soul and IZ - The Man Behind The Music.

64 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 65 guest speakers and presentations

Stacey Reiss Tad Fettig

Stacey Reiss is an Emmy award-winning the iconic Eloise books. Tad Fettig is an award-winning director, communities; and E2-Portland-A Sense producer whose experience includes Reiss is a veteran television news cinematographer and producer. Raised of Place, where, as a result of focusing over 10 years with Dateline NBC. Reiss producer covering major events in Haleiwa on the North Shore of O‘ahu, transportation decisions around has written, directed and produced such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Fettig resides in Brooklyn, New York, providing rail and mass transit options, documentaries and long-form programs the NY Blackout and the Elizabeth and Taos, New Mexico. Portland has the second lowest per for HBO, WNET, NBC, CNBC and National Smart case, receiving multiple Emmy Until 2002, Fettig worked as a capita transportation spending of the Geographic. nominations for her work. She has commercial producer, creating national 28 largest US metropolitan areas and is Reiss produced the Emmy-nominated produced countless hours of long-form corporate campaigns for Levi’s, Nike, consistently rated one of the countries documentary, I Knew It Was You, about programming and network specials. Northface and others. In 2003 he most livable cities. the late actor John Cazale, best known Reiss holds a journalism degree from produced the feature film Dopamine, as “Fredo” in the Godfather movies. the University of Wisconsin, Madison winner of the Alfred P. Sloane Prize at The film premiered at Sundance Film and was a Harvard Medical School the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, Join Tad Fettig for discussion Festival and aired on HBO in 2010. She Journalism Fellow. he launched the production company following each showing of these recently produced The Diplomat, a kontentreal with the first of his award- films. Please reference film schedule for time and locations details. feature-length documentary about the Join Stacey Reiss for discussion winning series, E2: Design, Energy, and late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke; following showing of The Diplomat Transport for PBS, Sundance Channel, and It’s Me, Hillary: The Man Who Drew at HPA Gates 6 pm Friday, Jan 1. and international markets. Eloise, a portrait of the artist behind Narrated by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, E2 is a critically acclaimed, Kissinger. Prior to making films, Holbrooke multipart series exploring attainable was extensively involved in television solutions in the fields of design, energy, news, producing long-form pieces for transport, water, food and urban The Today Show, CBS News and CNN. development. Holbrooke has written for the Huffington The Waimea Ocean Film Festival Post, GQ, CNN.com and National brings six episodes of the series to Geographic Adventure. He also worked on the festival: E2-Architecture 2030, David Holbrooke production for PBS, provided U.S. Open sharing efforts to achieve a carbon- neutral building sector through design; David Holbrooke’s latest project as a coverage for USA Network and worked on E2-London-The Price of Traffic, filmmaker is The Diplomat. The film is two Summer Olympics for NBC. examining London’s transformation into about his father, Ambassador Richard His production company, Giraffe a model of rail and transit efficiency; Holbrooke, who brokered the peace that Partners, is developing narrative features E2-Paris-Vélo Liberté, eyeing Paris’ ended the Bosnian War. His last film, Hard and several documentaries. Holbrooke innovative and fun bicycling initiative; as Nails, aired on HBO in December 2007. resides with his wife Sarah, three kids and E2-Affordable Green Housing, thinking Prior films include Freaks Like Me, Time two big dogs in Telluride, Colorado. creatively to make affordable housing for a New God and A Redwood Grows in Join David Holbrooke for discussion sustainable, healthy and positive Brooklyn, featuring acclaimed nature following showing of The Diplomat components of an urban landscape; photographer James Balog. All were part at HPA Gates 6 pm Friday, Jan 1, at E2-Harvesting the Wind, about the of a series he created called Original Kahilu Theatre 6 pm Sunday, Jan 3, potential of wind energy to both solve Thinkers. and at Four Seasons 6 pm Friday, electrical needs and serve as economic Other notable projects include The Jan 8. Also join Holbrooke for a development opportunity for rural Soul of Healing with Deepak Chopra and Breakfast Talk at Four Seasons on co-production of The Trials of Henry Thursday, Jan 7.

66 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 67 guest speakers and presentations

Matt Yamashita in productions that have received Sharon Katz Marilyn Cohen statewide and national broadcast. He Matt Yamashita was born and raised is well known for his ability to deliver Grammy-nominated South African Marilyn Cohen used her social worker’s on the Hawaiian island of Moloka‘i and quality products while working with musician and music therapist Sharon eye to begin filming the conditions is of Japanese, Filipino and Caucasian limited resources and small production Katz began sneaking past the Apartheid in South Africa in 1992, documenting ancestry. After receiving a Bachelor teams. regime’s barriers and traveling into the the early work of Sharon Katz and of Fine Arts in film production from Yamashita’s clients have included Blacks-Only townships as a teen. Using Nonhlanhla Wanda. As the project Chapman University, Yamashita returned Polynesian Voyaging Society, ‘ŌiwiTV, music as a unifying force, she worked progressed, Cohen brought on to Moloka‘i to become the island’s University of Hawai‘i, Queen with Nonhlanhla Wanda to form the filmmakers and director Nancy Sutton first professional filmmaker, founding Lili‘uokalani Children’s Center, country’s first 500-voice, multiracial Smith to produce her first feature film, Quazifilms. He has been working in Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission, choir. Performing across the country When Voices Meet, which has won the Hawai‘i film industry since 2001 Pacific Islanders in Communication, aboard “The Peace Train” in 1993 and multiple awards at festivals around the and has developed a full range of skills Pacific American Foundation, Edith joined by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, world. in all aspects of production: concept Kanaka‘ole Foundation, Hui Ho‘opakele the choir became a moving billboard development, writing, directing, ‘Āina, Ala Wai Watershed Association, for Nelson Mandela’s vision and helped producing, shooting, editing and and KITV, KHON, KGMB and KHNL. move South Africa towards its first Join Marilyn Cohen and Sharon Katz content delivery. democratic elections. for discussion and music following The filmmaker has unique expertise Join Matt Yamashita for discussion Sharon Katz and The Peace Train showing of When Voices Meet at HPA working within Hawai‘i-based following the showing of Roots of continue to perform worldwide and Gates 11:15 am Friday, Jan 1, at HPA communities, cultures and environments ‘Ulu and Sons of Halawa at HPA have recorded six CDs including one Gates 6:00 pm Saturday, Jan 2 and and has dedicated the focus of his work Gates 3:30 pm Sunday, Jan 3. Also with Sting, Elton John and Tina Turner. at Four Seasons 9:30 am Thursday, to telling Hawai‘i’s stories through join Yamashita for a Breakfast Talk Proceeds from their concerts and Jan 7. Also join Cohen and Katz for a local lens. Matt has held key roles at Anna Ranch on Monday, Jan 4. recordings assist youth and victims of a Breakfast Talk at Anna Ranch on violence around the world. Saturday, Jan 2.

Angle of Inspiration: Santiago John Antonelli Calatrava’s Sundial Bridge, The New Environmentalists and Kerouac: King of For 30 years, John Antonelli and his the Beats, which was awarded a Blue company, The Mill Valley Film Group, Ribbon from the American Film Festival have been producing award-winning for best feature-length film. documentary and educational projects He recently completed The Roots of for theatrical distribution, cable TV, ‘Ulu with funding from Pacific Islanders PBS, syndication and corporate clients. in Communications, which he co- The Mill Valley group has won multiple produced with filmmaker Matt Yamshita. regional Emmy awards for various productions. Antonelli’s series and films Join John Antonelli for discussion include Sam Cooke: Crossing Over, following the showing of Roots of ‘Ulu at HPA Gates 3:30 pm Sunday, Jan 3, at Parker Theatre 1:15pm Monday, Jan 4 and at Four Seasons 11:30 am Thursday, Jan 7. Also join Antonelli for a Breakfast Talk at Anna Ranch on Monday, Jan 4.

68 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 69 guest speakers and presentations

return in fish stocks. Theyalso looked to The concept of resting an area or studies from other Hawaiian islands and making it “kapu” is a traditional and around the globe to identify the best customary practice of Native Hawaiians management strategy, participating in to safeguard natural resources for learning exchanges to Maui, Moloka‘i, future use. When the similar practice O‘ahu, Kaua‘i and the Republic of Palau. of ‘bul’ was re-established in Palau, What the KMLAC learned confirmed bringing back ancient restrictions on the most effective way to increase fishing in spawning grounds during the size and abundance of fish is to spawning season, fish stocks re-bounded, eliminate fishing pressure and allow benefiting fishermen and the tourist natural recovery to occur. Because its industry alike, while bringing back the goal is to restore fish for fishing, the abundant reef life for which Palau is so idea of a permanent closure was off the well known. table. “It’s important to us that folks The concept of resting a resource understand we are not suggesting a is well known to the kama‘āina of permanent ban on fishing. We are just Ka‘ūpūlehu. Aunty Hannah Kihalani

Opelu ©Jim Kilbride asking people to ‘try wait,’ along with Springer calls the proposed rest period us, to give our fish a real chance to “the marine equivalent of catching bounce back,” explains Aunty Lei. rainwater for agricultural and household Ka‘ūpūlehu Marine Life Advisory Council A 10-year rest period was chosen to needs.” Aunty Hannah explains, account for the different life spans and “Ka‘ūpūlehu is a dry land and we live on (KMLAC) reproductive ages of important food water catchment. When the tank is low, fish—some of which don’t reach peak less is used and sometimes we have to For generations, the fishing families of swam in large schools right along this reproduction until they are 5-8 years haul water. When the rains return and Ka‘ūpūlehu lived sustainably with land shore. Today, fishermen have to swim 30 old—and allow enough time for at least the tank fills we have more water to and sea, growing and harvesting what to 50 feet out just to find a few.” Aunty one generation of fish at Ka‘ūpūlehu to meet our needs.” they needed without depleting coastal Lei is not the only person in Ka‘ūpūlehu truly replenish the reef in order to build Ka‘ūpūlehu is currently one of five and marine life. In 2009, after noting to notice the decline in fish over the a foundation for sustainable harvest. communities across Hawai‘i seeking a drastic decline in fish populations, years. Others, including kama‘āina formal authority to co-manage its members of the Ka‘ūpūlehu Marine and fisherman Kekaulike Tomich, have marine resources with the State of Life Advisory Council (KMLAC) began noticed big changes recently. “When I Hawai‘i, recognizing that Native to develop a community based plan to was a kid and we’d go diving, there’d Hawaiian gathering practices and rights replenish resources and sustain fishing be fish everywhere. The grunting go hand-in-hand with the kuleana within the ahupua‘a of Ka‘ūpūlehu, sound of the uhu was deafening,” says (responsibility) to mālama (care for) based on traditional Hawaiian practices. Kekaulike, now in his mid-20s. He the resources, and that the people of a During a three-year planning process, continues, “When the road was built, place must lead in these efforts if they various stakeholders, user groups and within the first six months there was a are to be successful and sustainable. community members provided input major drop in fish and it’s been a steady into Ka‘ūpūlehu’s proposal through decline ever since.” more than 350 community meetings, In response to these declines, the Join Ka‘ūpūlehu kama‘aina including exchanges and outreach efforts. KMLAC invited researchers from the Ku‘ulei Keakealani of Hui Aloha Aunty Leina‘ala Lightner, a member University of Hawai‘i and The Nature Kīholo/ka pilina poina‘ole and Chad of the KMLAC and kama‘āina of Conservancy to help them understand Wiggins of The Nature Conservancy Ka‘ūpūlehu, stands on the lava flats of what was happening in the area and for a presentation and discussion Kalaemanō reminiscing: “It used to be support their efforts to create policy about the work at Ka‘ūpūlehu at so different here. Red uhu (parrotfish) to ensure responsible practices and a HPA Gates 2:30 pm Sunday, Jan 3.

70 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 71 guest speakers and presentations

Chad Wiggins Alison Teal

Chad Wiggins, director of The Nature manages this remarkable place through Local Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy University of Southern California (USC) Conservancy’s Hawai‘i Island Marine partnerships with local non-profit (HPA) graduate Alison Teal started film school. After graduating summa Program, manages multiple projects Hui Aloha Kīholo, Hawai‘i State Parks traveling the world at the age of two cum laude, Alison created her own film and programs designed to maintain and and the Ala Kahakai National Historic months, when her parents took her series, Alison’s Adventures—which she improve coral reef and coastal habitat Trail. In the past three years, 1,730 skiing in southern Peru. For Alison, it directs, produces, edits and hosts—in in West Hawai‘i. volunteers and hundreds of students was the start of a life of high adventure. collaboration with cinematographer As part of this, Wiggins helped have supported rehabilitation of ka With renown adventure and travel and photographer Sarah Lee. Alison establish the South Kohala Coastal loko o Kīholo and their efforts have photographer David Blehert for a father was named one of the top 25 college Partnership, which has created three yielded tangible benefits including a 65 and naturalist and internationally filmmakers by MTV and was honored in reef education programs, increased percent reduction in habitat degrading acclaimed yoga teacher Deborah Koehn 2010 by Meryl Streep as one of the top compliance with existing fishing rules, silt, training of local fishers to conduct as a mother, Alison grew up exploring emerging female artists. reduced sediment delivered to coastal research, provision of cordage and the most remote corners of the planet. Alison scored the highest PSR areas and removed invasive species wood for canoe building, fence posts for Alison’s parents came to the Big (Primitive Survival Rating) to date as a from Kohala’s fringing coral reefs. He ranchers and conservation projects, and Island of Hawai‘i on an assignment participant in the Discovery Channel’s volunteers as a scientific member of the prized kiawe firewood used to prepare and immediately fell in love with the survival show, Naked and Afraid, which West Hawai‘i Fishery Council which, in food for traditional celebrations by island. They built their home, Hale Kai, was the highest-rated series of 2013, collaboration with agencies, universities those who come to mālama (care for) designing it to run entirely off solar and the second most-watched show in and local communities, has worked to Kīholo. photovoltaic power. As a Patagonia the history of Discovery Channel. protect 30 percent of West Hawai‘i’s Through community partner Hui Aloha athlete and an ambassador for reefs from commercial aquarium Kīholo, the conservancy is supporting Sustainable Surf, Alison works towards collection, prohibited spearfishing on consultation and sharing of responsible the greening of the surf industry and Join Alison Teal for discussion SCUBA and established protections for or pono fishing practices to influence utilizing products—from her surfboards following the showing of Alison’s sharks. the behavior of all who come to this to bikinis and wetsuits—that are Adventures: Maldives at Fairmont Wiggins evaluates the benefits of special place so that it remains alive manufactured from sustainable or Orchid 3:30 pm Saturday, Jan 2, at current watershed protection efforts, and thriving and continues to feed the recycled materials. HPA Gates 7:45 pm Sunday, Jan 3 measures the severity of the recent community in years to come. Alison attended HPA through and at Four Seasons 4 pm Wednesday, unprecedented coral bleaching across high school; she then attended the Jan 6. 40 miles of coastline, models the effect of sea level rise on coastal habitats and Join Chad Wiggins for discussion fishponds and determines the impact following Secrets of the Longleaf ©Sarah Lee of invasive fish species. Of particular Pine at Parker Theatre 1:15 interest to Wiggins are programs pm Friday, Jan 1 and following working closely with the communities Humpback Whales at Fairmont of Kīholo and Ka‘ūpūlehu to design Orchid 11:30 am Friday, Jan 1, at and implement actions to return Kahilu Theatre 9:30 am Saturday, conservation-based traditional practices Jan 2, at Fairmont Orchid 11:15 am to these lands. Sunday, Jan 3, at Kahilu Theatre In 2013, Angus Mitchell donated 6.5 11:30 am Monday, Jan 4 and at Four acres of fishpond estuarine habitat Seasons 2:30 pm Tuesday, Jan 5. Also at Kīholo, ka loko o Kīholo, to The join Wiggins for a discussion about Nature Conservancy, which currently the work at Ka‘ūpūlehu at HPA Gates 2:30 pm Sunday, Jan 3.

72 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 73 artists and exhibits

©Iker San Martin Nainoa Thompson ©Polynesian Voyaging Society. Photographer: Sam Kapoi, ‘Ōiwi TV Iker San Martin The Voyager Exhibit

Growing up in the Basque region of Spain, In honor of Hōkūle‘a’s current Iker San Martin had a dream to travel Worldwide Voyage (WWV), The Voyager and see the world, and the cultures and Exhibit features photographs of the people in it. It was through traveling 2015 voyage, taken by the ‘Ōiwi TV that he connected to photography photographers on board, in a down-to- and filming. Since his first trips to the-wire printing and mounting of this Australia and Indonesia, he felt an very current exhibit. inspiration to capture and portray the Bogner, Botik Resort, Etnies, KJUS, Luna Hōkūle‘a left the Pacific Ocean for magical moments found in the midst of Maga, My Rio, Nordica, Protest, Santa the first time this year in a momentous ©Polynesian Voyaging Society. extraordinary places and beauty. Cruz, Scott, Scull Candy, Blizzard Ski, sail from New Zealand, to Australia, Photographer: Nā‘ālehu Anthony, ‘Ōiwi TV San Martin’s passion for the ocean Thirty Two, Mustique and Guardenia Bali, Mauritius and finally Cape Town, and mountains is matched by his love Txano Gorritxu. South Africa. The exhibit shares this magnitude of the expedition to life. A of adrenaline, adventure and extreme extraordinary accomplishment and the number of volunteers and members sports, which come together as he places sense and feel of being on the journey. of Nā Kālai Wa‘a work on updating Join Iker San Martin for discussion himself in locations to capture imagery of Photographers whose work is on the voyage map each year, along with following the showing of his films extreme athletes in action. As he notes, display are Nā‘ālehu Anthony, Justyn Ah installing The Voyager Exhibit and El Loco Viaje and The Basque Swell his work takes him “inside the lives of Chong, Kamakanioka‘āina Paikai, Sam developing curriculum for student visits. along with a slide show presentation some of the world’s most fascinating Kapoi, Kaipo Kī‘aha, Maui Tauotaha, sharing his photography of the people and is always an adventure.” Jason Patterson and Bryson Hoe. culture, people and land of Self taught, with a determination The Voyager Exhibit includes the The exhibit opens with a ceremony Indonesia at HPA Gates Theatre 1 pm to learn from, and become the best, 8x13-foot world map developed in 4 pm Friday, Jan 1 and will remain Sunday, Jan 3 and at Four Seasons San Martin’s clients include Asia Trend, collaboration between the festival on display at Kahilu Theatre through 1 pm Wednesday, Jan 6. Automic, A Ausolan Adara, Billabong, and Nā Kālai Wa‘a a few years ago to Feb 14. highlight the WWV route and bring the

74 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 75 artists and exhibits

All artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai

Tahiti-based artist Sophie Teururai was satisfying it was to paint and that I Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai born and raised at Waiuli, on the coast was able to get the results I desired,” will display her work in a of Hilo Bay, one of seven brothers and Sophie recounts. full debut exhibit at The sisters. Her family history in Hawai‘i Teururai became a full-time resident Fairmont Orchid Jan 1-4 and dates back to the early 1800s. on the island of Huahine in 1994, where Four Seasons Jan 5-8. Join Teururai attended Hilo High School she met her husband, Tamatoa Teururai. her at Four Seasons 2-5 pm before graduating from Punahou School They married in 1997 and have one son, Wednesday, Jan 6 as she on O‘ahu. She studied photography Etera. discusses her work. Exhibits extensively in high school and in The granddaughter of noted Hawai‘i are located by film showings at college. In 1982, Sophie began making artist William Twigg-Smith, the painter both venues. annual visits to French Polynesia as a comes from a long line of artists and photographer for noted Bishop Museum architects. Her love for painting started archaeologist Dr. Yosihiko Sinoto. as a young woman on painting holidays After receiving a degree in French in Italy and France with her parents, Literature at the University of Hawai‘i both accomplished artists. (UH) Manoa in 1982, she returned to Teururai’s artwork features island UH to study painting in 1989. Teururai lifestyle scenes and vistas from Huahine turned to painting when she felt she and Hawai‘i and reflects her love for couldn’t quite express the images she the beauty and people of the islands. saw in the way she wanted to through She is fluent in French and Tahitian and photography. “When I went back to UH is a life-long surfer and swimmer. and started painting, I realized how

76 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 77 artists and exhibits

hearts of others through the eternal ancient ‘ōhi‘a trees, embedded with language of beauty, connection and lava. ‘Ōhi‘a trees are native to Hawai‘i, visual storytelling. found nowhere else on earth, and are “The ocean is familiar and diverse. It the first trees to populate the barren connects us and divides,” says Kristie. lava fields.” Marlene works with the “My latest body of work—Immersed—is roots of trees that have fallen and her inspired by the way in which the work “start when my hands begin to ocean represents the parallelism and explore their individual characteristics.” connectivity of humanity.” Throughout her life, Marlene has been The painter’s work resides in a keen observer of relationships and numerous collections and has been those observations have influenced her exhibited internationally. She earned a work. Using burlap, bronze, aluminum, Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otis College copper and wood, she creates an of Art and Design, where she was also emotional stage for the natural twists the recipient of the Otis College of Art and curves in the material. Her work is and Design Thesis Award. Her work can found in collections around the world. be viewed publicly at the Hawai‘i State Curated by Tiffany’s Art Agency, an

©Timothy Allan Shafto Capitol Building on the island of O‘ahu exhibit featuring these artists, along and Honolulu International Airport. with original pieces by Kathy Long, will be on display in the Lloyd Sexton Aloha Expressionism by Contemporary Timothy Allan Shafto Gallery at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel “Being able to transform an idea into 9 am-5 pm Jan 1-3 and 9 am-11 am Hawai‘i Artists physical form through my hands gives Monday, Jan 4. The exhibit moves to me great joy. But that’s only half the Four Seasons Resort Hualālai Jan 5-8, Joy, beauty and the spirit of aloha Mary Koski (1929-2015), Tai Lake, Clytie cycle,” shares Shafto. “When you where it will remain open 9 am to 6 pm are reflected in the artwork of 50 Mead, Elizabeth Miller Mydock, Suzy experience a piece of my work that near the Festival Hospitality Desk and Hawai‘i-based artists. In the book Papanikolas, Vicki Penney, Ida Perkins, brings you joy and connection, you ballroom. Aloha Expressionism by Contemporary David Reisland, Shay Wahl and Shelly complete the process.” Hawai‘i Artists, these artists share Maudsley White. Creating with his hands is a way of their inspirational stories and glimpses Featured in the exhibit at The Mauna life for Tim. His journey has taken him Join Tiffany DeEtte Shafto, Kristie of their work. Represented by Tiffany Kea Beach Hotel and Four Seasons through glass fabrication, to owning a Fujiyama Kosmides, Timothy Allan DeEtte Shafto, who wrote and produced Resort Hualālai are Kristie Kosmides, stone fabrication company, to making Shafto, Marlene Louchheim and the book with Lynda McDaniel, the work Timothy Allan Shafto, Marlene Loucheim a living as an award-winning, fine Kathy Long for a talk story and book of four of these artists will be exhibited and Kathy Long, with a tribute to Mary woodworker in Hawai‘i. Now his skills signing event at the Lloyd Sexton during the festival and they and others Koski shown at Isaacs Art Center. combine to create a dramatic new style Gallery in the Mauna Kea Beach will be on hand for book signing events. of mixed-media painting, inspired by Hotel 3-5 pm Friday, Jan 1 and at Hawai‘i Island artists appearing Kristie Kosmides the ocean and island life. His work can Four Seasons Resort Hualālai 3-5 pm in Aloha Expressionism include Kosmides is a fourth-generation be found in private collections and in Thursday, Jan. 7. Kristie Fujiyama Kosmides, Kathy Japanese American and a Hilo, Hawai‘i- the US Embassy in Fiji as part of the Art Long, Harry Wishard, Mike Field, Mary based painter. Art is her daily practice, in Embassies program. Spears, Timothy Allan Shafto, Marlene in which she explores the intimate A percentage of proceeds from art and Marlene Louchheim Louchheim, Edwin Kayton, Ellen and ephemeral qualities of humanity book sales will benefit the Waimea “When you pause and look, you see the Crocker, Scott Hare, Kate and Will through abstract pieces that honor a Ocean Film Festival. beauty in everything” shares Louchheim. Jacobson, Hugh Jenkins and Stephanie sense of that which is greater than “My latest work looks at the roots of the Ross, Joshua Johansen, Cliff Johns, herself. Her work aims to touch the

78 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 79 artists and exhibits

Isaac Art Center’s Tribute to Mary Koski Kathy Long (1929 - 2015)

With a natural talent for art, Kathy Long’s pastels and black and white drawings featuring the people ballet and music, the late and culture of Hawai‘i comprise some of the most recognized images of the Mary Koski earned an art islands today. The daughter of the late artist Mary Koski, Kathy grew up in degree at the University of Hilo and traveled widely with her parents before settling down to study fine California at Santa Barbara arts and graduating from a traditional art school in Scandinavia. Kathy had and at Mexico City College in her debut exhibit at the prestigious Waino Aaltonen Museum in Finland, which Mexico City. While in Mexico, was the start of a series of one-woman shows throughout Europe over the she met and married her next several years. husband. Later they moved to With her husband, art the United States and Koski historian Bertil Long, Kathy began to paint in earnest. In settled in Waimea in 1982 1970, she began an extended to raise their family. Bertil painting tour of Europe with became the curator for Parker commissions and exhibitions in Ranch, while Kathy began Germany, Austria, Switzerland, to record the renaissance of Liechtenstein and Scandinavia. Hawaiian culture. When she moved to Hawai‘i Kathy has been the in 1983, she felt as though she official artist for Hawaiian had come home. Airlines, was chosen to Koski’s passion for capturing provide poster artwork for Hawai‘i’s children shows in the Merrie Monarch Hula her works, many of which are Festival in 2001 and 2002, widely recognized across the and was commissioned by Islands. As Koski put it, “The the Hawai‘i Visitors Bureau job of the artist is to point to paint a series of images things out and I’m grateful to help promote the cultural that I have been able to help identity of Hawai‘i. She has others see, through my eyes, won purchase awards by the the beauty that surrounds us Hawai‘i Council for Culture White Ginger. Artwork by Mary Koski every day. Art has given me an and the Arts; been featured extraordinary life.” on Hawai‘i’s PBS program, Koski was represented in many Join Mary Koski’s daughter, Kathy Long, Spectrum, several times; one-woman shows and several at Isaacs Art Center for the opening of and featured in national and two- and three-women shows with a remarkable retrospective of the work international publications. her daughter and granddaughter. of Mary Koski, and book signing of Aloha She has had over 50 one- Mary wrote and illustrated Expressionism, in which they are both woman-shows and her work children’s books and her artwork represented. The opening will be 11 am-3 can be seen in public and was featured in calendars, limited pm Sunday, Jan 3, while the exhibit will be private collections around edition prints, greeting cards and featured at Isaacs Art Center through the the world. now Aloha Expressionism. end of January. Tropical Morning. Artwork by Kathy Long

80 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 81 artists and exhibits

Isaacs Art Center ©Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy Isaacs Art Center Collection. Pounders Beach, Oahu. Artwork by Ed Furuike Isaacs Art Center

Isaacs Art Center has developed a Pohl, Huc-Mazelet Luquiens, Horatio her Master of Public Health and Master reputation over the years as one of the Nelson Poole, Lloyd Sexton, Jr. and of Education from the University of most important collections of Hawaiian Lionel Walden. Hawai‘i-Manoa, after studying art art in the state. Part of Hawaii The building that houses Isaacs Art history in Florence. Preparatory Academy (HPA), it has a Center was built in 1915 as Waimea’s Isaacs Art Center is open 10 am-5 pm mission to raise money for the benefit first public school structure, bringing its Tuesday through Saturday. of HPA students through its financial aid own history, and architectural warmth, program, while giving the community to the artistic display. Relocated to access to significant Hawaiian art and its current location in June 2002, it Join Mollie Hustace at Isaacs Art Center, 10 am and noon Monday, sculpture. received the prestigious 2003-2004 chair of the Fine Arts Department at Jan 4 for a private gallery tour Both art museum and gallery, Isaacs Historic Preservation Award from the HPA. She has assisted at the Isaacs Art and discussion of the work of Art Center has its own permanent art Historic Hawai‘i Foundation after being Center since its 2004 opening, serving Madge Tennent and 20th century collection with loans from private placed on the State Register of Historic as a docent and helping with auction modernism, followed by a collectors, as well as works of art for Places in March 2003. The restoration catalogs, exhibits and retrospectives. comparison with the historic realism sale. The permanent collection includes was completed in March 2004. Hustace previously was a visiting of Herb Kane and the landscape about 30 oil paintings and 40 works on Having operated under the leadership lecturer in art history at ‘Iolani School (Greenwell, Norris) and figurative paper by Madge Tennent. Other Hawai‘i of Bernard Nogués since its inception, and a docent lecturer and gallery guide painting (Kiriaty, Long, Kobzev, artists on display include Jean Charlot, Mollie Hustace took the helm in July at the Honolulu Museum of Art. She Long) in later 20th century Hawaiian Martha Greenwell, Herb Kawainui Kane, 2014. Since 1994, Hustace has served as earned her bachelor’s degree in Human art. D. Howard Hitchcock, Ben Norris, Louis faculty member, college counselor and Biology from Stanford University and

82 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 83 artists and exhibits

Loebel-Fried has published numerous books retelling Hawaiian legends through story and art: Lono and the Magical Land Beneath the Sea, Hawaiian Legends of Dreams, Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits, Pua Polu and the Pretty Blue Hawaiian Flower, Legend of the Gourd; and Naupaka. During the winter of 2014-2015, the artist spent five weeks on Midway Atoll, counting nesting albatrosses and assisting with research efforts underway, so she might better represent the birds in print and thus contribute to their conservation. Caren continues to work on behalf Caren Loebel-Fried of wildlife in Hawai‘i, with the hope of inspiring a Caren Loebel-Fried is an artist and greater connection to author residing in Volcano, Hawai‘i. Hawai‘i’s natural world All artwork by Caren Loebel-Fried Growing up on the New Jersey shore, through her prints. “I she spent summers on the beach with believe that art can play a the sight, spray, sound and smell of powerful role in conservation and I hope to do what I the ocean all around, and the seabirds can to help the native wildlife in Hawai‘i.” circling above. There, she would watch Loebel-Fried’s awards include the Hawai‘i Book as her mother carved blocks, playing Publishers Association Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards for with the curls of wood that fell from illustration and children’s Hawaiian culture. Her work her mother’s block into the sand. With is collected around the world. the tradition passed from mother to daughter, Loebel-Fried grew into a An exhibit of Caren Loebel-Fried’s work will be on block printmaker herself. display at The Fairmont Orchid Jan 1-4 and at Four Interested in the human experience Seasons Resort Hualālai Jan 5-8. Join Caren Loebel- of nature from an early age, Caren Fried for a demonstration of the art of printmaking researched Hawaiian legends from at The Fairmont Orchid 9:45 am-11:45 am Sunday, the perspective of gaining insight into Jan 3 and at Four Seasons Resort Hualālai 1-3 pm how people make use of, care for, Tuesday, Jan 5. experience and integrate them into the natural world.

84 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 85 artists and exhibits

So, I spent every waking hour of my stay exploring Sand Island, Spit, Eastern, the waters inside and just outside the atoll. I sketched, photographed, and videoed the different birds, their behavior and flight. I studied the movement of the ocean, the wind, the light, the colors and textures. I dissected an albatross bolus to learn what they consumed. Fascinated by their soaring, I observed a dissection of a deceased albatross in order to see the structure of the wings, bones, and muscles. So many amazing creatures live or breed on the Atoll, and the human stories of heroism, tragedy, and survival during the Battle of Midway are too numerous to tell in one piece of art. I worked closely with Dan Clark and Bret Wolf, the Refuge Manager and Deputy Manager, and Ann Bell, Visitor Services Manager, choosing the elements that would appear in the art and their placement. The albatrosses would be within a frame of many panels filled The Art of Midway with images representing the decisive (a story for FOMA/Gooney Gazette) WW2 battle fought off Midway, other sea birds who depend on Midway for While working on the art back home by Caren Loebel-Fried I arrived on the Atoll in early winter nesting habitat, an ancient Hawaiian in Volcano, I emailed scientists and staff Reprinted with permission from the author to the sights and sounds of thousands Voyaging Canoe sailing by on its way on Midway, Honolulu staff, and former and FOMA/Gooney Gazette, where it originally of Laysan albatrosses sitting on nests down the island chain, and several Midway folks with questions, requests appeared. and dancing in courtship. Every night, endemic and native plants. Other for photos, and asked them to review panels would include coral, fish, a my sketches for accuracy. My work I had the honor of creating a piece the clacking, honking, and rapid fire Hawaiian Monk Seal, ‘Īlioholoikauaua, would not have been possible without of art that celebrates and supports bill-clapping of the albatrosses was and a Green Sea Turtle, Honu, all from their incredible support and help. Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, the soundtrack to my dreams. I was the sea around the atoll. My ultimate goal was to create a the Battle of Midway Memorial, and mesmerized by their loving attention I also wanted to highlight some of piece that could be enjoyed as fine art, the deep Hawaiian roots throughout to one another and to their egg. I the work that USFWS is doing to help and also be printed on everyday items. Papahānaumokuākea, the Northwestern knew the “stars” of the piece would the wildlife on Midway. I envisioned a By purchasing Midway merchandise, Hawaiian Islands. My biggest challenge be a nesting Laysan Albatross pair, Laysan Duck, from the original group funds are raised for FOMA in support was to evoke the unique essence of and I would want to reveal a private, of ducks translocated from Laysan, of the work that US Fish and Wildlife Midway Atoll, and include as much of its intimate moment amid the cacophony reaching up to nibble on bunchgrass, Service (USFWS) is doing on Midway. variety as possible. But alas, how can all around them. kawelu, seeds in the main panel. The With this art, I also hoped to share a the “Magic of Midway” be represented In order to give the art a feeling of bunchgrass, used as nesting material glimmer of the magic of this special in one piece of art? place, I needed to experience as much of Midway and it’s wildlife as possible. by albatrosses, would be shown out- place that I am so lucky to have had the planted by human hands. opportunity to experience and help.

86 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 87 artists and exhibits

Christian Enns All artwork by Christian Enns A two-time National Scholastic Surfing Out of the Blue. Enns has provided the Association (NSSA) Champion and Hawaii cover art for the Waimea Ocean Film Amateur Surfing Association (HASA) Festival for the past three years. Champion, Christian Enns spent 10 The artist often takes his paints and years traveling as a professional surfer canvases to the shoreline and creates before settling down on the Big Island. en plein air. For the last few years, As an artist, he creates visually striking, Ocean Film attendees have been given Hawai‘i-themed paintings that portray the opportunity to watch Enns paint in the beauty of the islands, as well as person. The 48 x 36-inch canvas shown intimate scenes from modern-day and at right, painted from the perspective traditional Hawaiian life. of the 18th hole at Four Seasons Resort Christian studied figurative realism Hualālai and valued at $8,000, has been and classical painting techniques at donated by Enns to the festival and will Laguna College of Art and Design in be available for bidding Jan 5-8. California where he graduated cum This year, festivalgoers can once laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts again observe Christian Enns as he degree. He works primarily with oil paints, to gain a sense of his process, by paint on panel or canvas. joining him Jan 2-4 at the Mauna Kea Enn’s experiences riding 50-foot Beach Hotel. Watch his work in progress waves bring a high-energy life force from 8-10:30 am. and unique, personal perspective to his work. His art was the focus of two feature films, Surfing as Sadhana and

88 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 89 artists and exhibits thank you to our contributors

Anna Trent Moore The festival is made possible through the support of patrons and sponsors. Thank you to our 2015/2016 festival season patrons and sponsors.

Born and raised in Makaha, O‘ahu, Anna of three books: Increments of Fear: Trent Moore is a teacher, writer, surfer The Buzzy Trent Story, One Ocean and SPONSORS and curator of the Bud Browne Film Laughing at Water. The author divides Archives. Her father, Buzzy Trent, was her time between California and Venue and Lodging Sponsors Media and Local Sponsors an iconic figure in early, big wave riding Hawai‘i, living next to the Pacific where Four Seasons Resort Hualālai West Hawai‘i Today history known for pioneering the surfing she writes about surfing and the ocean. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and Resort Ke Ola Magazine of 30-foot waves at Makaha Point. The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i Hawaii Tribune Herald Much of that period was filmed by the Join Anna Trent Moore for discussion Hapuna Prince Beach Hotel Kona Law late Bud Browne, the godfather of surf following the showing of Gun Ho Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy (HPA) Waimea Instant Printing films, who traveled to Hawai‘i often, at Parker Theatre 6 pm Saturday, Parker School Jim Hood | The Computer Doctor documenting the big wave surf scene on Jan 2, at Fairmont Orchid 8 pm the north shore in the 50s and 60s. Saturday, Jan 2 and at Four Seasons Anna Ranch Heritage Center The Emily T. Gail Show A close friend of the Trent family, 3:45 pm Tuesday, Jan 5. This Week Magazine Bud Browne was like a second father Inner Circle Sponsors to Anna. When Browne passed away at The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i Food and Beverage Sponsors the age of 96, he bequeathed his life Bud Browne Surf Film Award Four Seasons Resort Hualālai Chef Allen Hess work to her. It encompasses the most It is with great pleasure that the Bud Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and Resort Starbucks Coffee in-depth chronological collection of Browne Film Archives presents the Bud Hapuna Prince Beach Hotel Big Island Brewhaus historical documentation of the sport of Browne Surf Film Award at the Waimea Holualoa Inn Sushi Rock surfing from the 1950s through the late Ocean Film Festival. Bud Browne K2imaging, Inc. Palani French Bakers 1970s and is known as the Bud Browne (1912-2008), the father of the surf film Big Island Traveler Gill’s Lanai Film Archives. and the creator of the genre, captured 102.7 The Beach Today, surf films in need of a historical more than four decades of surfing from base often license work from the Bud The Wave @ 92fm the birth of modern, big wave surfing Browne Film Archival collection. Anna Maile Charters through the short board evolution. has shown Bud Browne’s films in the Matson Foundation The Bud Browne Surf Film Award Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai United States and Europe, and has honors all forms of wave riding and licensed archival footage to many surf the filmmakers that capture it, and film projects, with the most recent being will award one honoree to celebrate Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau. outstanding excellence in the surf film Anna has made it her life quest to genre. It is with great pride that the Bud share the archives with the surfing Browne Film Archives presents this award world, showing Bud’s films in Hawai‘i, for the first time ever at the Waimea the U.S. and Europe. “I feel that Ocean Film Festival in January, 2016. whatever your passion is,” explains Anna, “it is important to know the roots of your craft. Bud’s historical films share a part of surfing’s history that is deeply relevant. Surfing is a sport created by Hawaiians and Bud was fortunate to share the majesty of surfing in his films.” Trent Moore has written numerous Buzzy Trent at Waimea Bay, 1958 articles on surf history and is the author ©Bud Browne Film Archives

90 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. 91 thank you to our contributors thank you to our contributors

Patrons Thank you to everyone in the community who contributed to make this festival possible. A special thank you to: Inner Circle Supporters Sugai Products Inc., Legendary Kona The Ludwick Family Foundation Coffees Nancy Michel Rudy DeRochemont Ceppie and Irwin Federman Tai Shan Farms Inc. Jude McAnesby Robert and Ceri Whitfield Polly and Tom Bredt Hamakua Macadamia Nut Company Lisen Twigg-Smith Beamer Solomon Hālau o Po‘ohala Ava Williams and Scott Elliot Big Island Candies Pat and Dave Allbee Ginny Cogger Cassandra and Paul Hazen David Ellis | Chambers & Chambers Lisa Shattuck Phyrne Osborne Ann and John Broadbent Wine Merchants Megan MacArthur Sofia Howard Linda and Jon Gruber Mrs. Barry’s Cookies Chris Luedi Pamela Polland Ed Storm Des and Lisen Twigg-Smith Jaisy Jardine Kaliko Beamer Trapp Judy Swanson Candace Lee Darren K. Matsumoto Tom and Jayne Kerns Nancy S. Mueller Koa Coffee Austin Watkins Jim Hood | The Computer Doctor Penn and Net Payne Ahualoa Farms Peter Thoene Uncle Earl Regidor Marlene and Sandy Louchheim Anahola Granola Craig Anderson Kawaihae Canoe Club Patsy and David K.J. Heffel Mrs Barry’s Kona Cookies Tom Cross Chelsea Morriss Jeanne and Sandy Robertson Buddha’s Cup Keith M. Groves Phoebe Barela Anonymous Big Island Bees Mark Morphew Barbara Garcia Hawaiian Volcano Sea Salt Sarah Douglas Tim Bostock Local Supporters – Patrons Lunar Frequencies, LLC Jessica Henley Will Zucker Christine and Richard Karger Waimea Instant Printing Ava Williams and Scott Elliot Matt Stone Justine Stamen Arrillaga and John Shirley Ann Fukumoto David Byars Arrillaga Lisa Sakurai Tammy Touchet Kitty Egan Phyllis Kanekuni Kelly Hoyle The Gifford Foundation Fern Gavelek Jerry Blevins ©Christian Enns Phyrne and Dave Osborne Jon Vedelli John Boyle Judy and Bob Huret Caroline Landry and David Kirk Cara McCann Caroline Landry and David Kirk Florian Riedel Kevin McCann Melissa and Jan Levitan John Freitas Yoev Melamed Janet and Dennis Shannon Mollie Hustace Naomi Picinich Kay Woods Joe Loschiavo Mikaiah Cohen Nancy L. Stephenson Pua Case Chad Wiggins Virginia Tupper Keomailani Case Maka Wiggins Chadd Paishon Anna and Danny Akaka Local Supporters – Pomai Bertelmann Matt Pearce Business and Organizations Paul Buckley Patti Cook Jim Hood | The Computer Doctor Jennifer Bryan U‘ilani Naipo Christian Enns Ku’ulei Keakealani Volcano Mist Cottage David Ellis Blue Wilderness Dive Adventures Mountain Apple Company Greenwell Farms Coffee continued on next page

92 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 93 thank you to our contributors

Board Morgan Greene Dorothy Hafner Worth Ludwick January Herron Tania Howard Michael Huber Melissa Yeager Chris Kelly Callie Khourie Roisin Kennedy Advisory Board Lisa Korenaga Eric Kwan Irwin Federman Caryl Liebmann Polly and Tom Bredt Pascale Michel Joe Fagundes, III Coert Olmstead Susan Nixon Carolyn Pellett Diane Ashley Volunteers Naomi Picinich Nancy Michel Faith Rockenstein Jude McAnesby Barbara Scarth Pat Allbee Tad Veltrop ©Kristie Kosmides Dave Allbee Donna Worden Dharmoni Zelin Joe Loschiavo Ocean Film Production Mark Morphew Keli Donnelly Diesel Tucker Caroline Sekulic Founder and Director | Tania Howard Breakfast Talk Hosts | Maka Wiggins, Lisen Twigg-Smith John Week Hospitality | Lisa Shattuck Mollie Hustace, Brodie Callender Elizabeth Morriss Mireia Mas-Gibert Office Support | Mary Beth Bartlett John Wray Laurie Dale Production Support | Krista Maggard Film Intro Editor | Dave Byars Margo Wray Anne Jo Lee Ito Technical Team Lead | Jim Hurst PR | Fern Gavelek Communications, Phoebe Barela Mahealani Winters Technical Team | Jim Hurst, Rudy Jessica Henley, gaiacreative Bruce Stern Megan MacArthur DeRochemont, David Byars, Bruce Stern, Web | Stephen Daniel Karpik, Debby Stern Brodie Callender John Week, Diesel Tucker, Jim Toten, Krista Maggard Linda Preskitt Patty Young Ru Mahoney Accounting | Patricia Schumacher Lark Willey Michael Young Jean Bassen Melissa Levitan Projection | Rudy DeRochemont, Design | Sarah Douglas, gaiacreative Harry Betancourt Heidi Smith John Week, Diesel Tucker, Bruce Stern, Passes | Krista Maggard Madeleine Budde Jim Toten Photography | Beverly Warns Mikaiah Cohen Event Core Support Mihana Diaz Lisen Twigg-Smith, Jude McAnesby, Theatre/Desk Managers and Emcees | Program Guide Nancy Erger Nancy Michel, Pat and Dave Allbee, David Byars, Joe Losciavo, Phoebe Program Design | Sarah Douglas Virginia Fortner Melissa Levitan, Mark Morphew, Michael Barela, Jude McAnesby, Megan and Beth Skelley, gaiacreative George Fry Huber, Cara McCann MacArthur, Ru Mahoney, Nancy Michel, Copy, Editing and Photo Editing | Debby Stern, Clemson Lam, John Wray, Tania Howard Lisa Shattuck Proof Reading | Fern Gavelek, Bruce Stern, Krista Maggard, Lisa Shattuck

94 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2016 95 waimea ocean film festival PO Box 6600 | Kamuela, HI 96743 | 808-854-6095 waimeaoceanfilm.org a 501(c) 3 organization

Printed using recycled paper and soy based inks | Cover artwork ©Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai