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Program Guide 2012 January 4-8, 2012 Waimea, Mauna Kea Resort + Kohala Coast January 10-13, 2012 Four Seasons Resort Hualalai sponsors contents + about our area LODGING SPONSORS contents 4 About the Festival 5 Letter from the Director 6 Host Venues and Map VENUE SPONSOR 8 Films 22 Schedule 26 Breakfast Talks 29 Morning Activities 30 Guest Speakers and Presentations 62 Artists and Exhibits INNER CIRCLE AND IN-KIND SPONSORS 64 About Our Sponsors 70 Thank You to Our Contributors Artwork by Harry Wishard about our area Five volcanoes comprise the Big Island, Spinner dolphins rest in shallow bays, FOOD & BEVERAGE SPONSOR including the still active Kilauea, which and during winter months, humpback sits at the heart of Volcanoes National whales delight visitors and locals Park. Together, Mauna Kea, Muana alike with their acrobatic displays and Loa and Hualalai form the backdrop beautiful song. of the Kohala Coast, where stark lava fields meet turquoise waters and sandy The town of Waimea, also known as beaches. Kamuela, sits in the saddle between the dry and green sides of the island. R It is known as much for the paniolo E T The Kohala Coast is an area rich in both S T A N AU R Hawaiian history and sea life. Tropical culture that lends character to the town fish, many of which are found nowhere as for the weather patterns ever shifting else in the world, inhabit these reefs, between rain, mist and sun. along with Hawaiian hawksbill turtles, octopus, eel and smaller reef sharks. LOCAL AND IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS Ken Ransford Law Cover photo © Clark Little / ClarkLittle.com 2 WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org PROGRAM GUIDE 2012 3 about the festival letter from the director with a few films pending at publication. Energy consumption, fishing practices about the festival TBA schedules and special screenings aloha and plastic use will continue to be USING THE PROGRAM will be available at the Hospitality Desk underlying themes throughout the Welcome to the second annual All film screenings, presentations, and starting on Saturday morning. festival, both in films and presentations, Waimea Ocean Film Festival. It is a special events are listed by day and given their impact on the health of THINGS TO REMEMBER great pleasure to welcome you back for venue in the festival schedule. Each the ocean and the well-being of those Wear your pass a very exciting lineup of 37 exceptional Breakfast Talk location is listed along whose lives are entwined with the sea. Breakfast Talks start at 8:15am, and and award-winning films that fall with its description in the Breakfast Talk include Starbucks coffee and pastries into the general categories of ocean section of the program. As part of this, and as an undercurrent Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hapuna Beach environment, ocean experience and Prince Hotel, the Fairmont Orchid, and to all we do, are films that explore Films are grouped with other films and/ island culture. the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai are all the philosophies, thought and social or speakers into film blocks, as shown offering wonderful discounts to festival interactions that affect the way in which in the schedule. When filmmakers will Back by popular request, and for attendees. Ask for the Waimea Ocean we relate to the land, the sea, and the be present for discussion after the film, those unable to attend last year, are Film Festival Rate when inquiring. world around us. this is noted by ‘Q&A.’ six of the most popular and powerful films from the 2011 program. Added THE PASS SYSTEM More than about any individual film, the HOSPITALITY DESK to these is a full lineup of beautiful, The Hospitality Desk is located in the The pass system enables the festival festival is designed to be an immersive thought provoking, inspiring and lobby of the Kahilu Theatre. Passes are to organize a dynamic event that experience, with films, presentations action packed films, along with some available for pick-up at the Hospitality includes films, speakers, presentations, and speakers relating to each other, and very special guests, filmmakers, Desk starting on January 4th at 9am. breakfast talks and other activities. The the opportunity for dialogue among presentations and exhibits. Passes may be purchased here, along pass system is the glue that holds the participants woven into the structure. with other items. The Hospitality Desk festival together and allows for a rich Among these, and arguably one of the is available to answer questions, and and complex content, with one aspect A very big Mahalo to everyone in greatest film producers of our time, is provide additional information. woven together with the next. the community who has contributed Jake Eberts. We are very fortunate to While film and event passes provide to the festival. The festival comes HOURS OF OPERATION have him join us again this year, to access for periods of time over together as a result of a concerted, Wednesday, January 4th: 9am – 9pm share stories about his work and the the festival, the Waimea Six Punch year-round effort, and is only possible Thursday, January 5th: 9am – 9pm production of Disneynature’s Oceans. Pass includes access to six film or with the support of festival sponsors Friday, January 6th: 9am – 9pm and contributors, and the community presentation blocks, and also includes In addition, the stunning exhibit Saturday, January 7th: 9am –9pm members who have stepped forward to breakfast talks and sunrise activities. documenting the first voyage of Sunday, January 8th: 9am – 9pm volunteer their time. I hope you enjoy. This pass may be shared, and is valid Hokule’a in 1976 will be on display at THEATRE ENTRY from January 5th to January 8th, 2012. Kahilu Theatre through the month of Mahalo nui loa, Please remember to wear your passes. While the festival relies on the pass January. Members of Na Ka Lai Wa’a Tania Howard Festival volunteers will open doors for system to operate, remaining seats for have worked to bring added meaning Founder and Director seating 20 minutes prior to each show. films and presentations will be opened and context to the exhibit by collecting The theatre will be cleared between for individual ticket purchase 10 minutes pieces relevant to the journey, and will screenings. prior to each show for exact change. offer a blessing ceremony for the exhibit. To volunteer for a festival pass, or for TBAs (TO BE ANNOUNCED) more information, please talk with the A certain number of shows will be listed Hospitality Desk, visit the website at as TBAs. The most popular films from the www.waimeaoceanfilm.org, or contact festival will be shown at this time, along the festival office at 808-854-6095. 4 WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org PROGRAM GUIDE 2012 5 host venues + map host venues KOHALA COAST home to the Kawaihae Canoe Club and the Makali’i. Visit the canoe club just Four Seasons Resort Hualalai past the harbor for outrigger canoe 72-100 Ka’upulehu Drive paddling lessons, and the halau within The Four Seasons Resort Hualalai the harbor for a breakfast talk around at Historic Ka’upulehu captures the the Makali’i. essence of Hawaiian design, culture and tradition and radiates understated Mauna Kea Beach Hotel elegance. The resort will host the gala 62-100 Mauna Kea Beach Drive opening on January 4th, as well as the The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, built festival itself again Jan. 10th–13th. in 1965 by Laurance S. Rockefeller, epitomizes the beauty of Hawai’i and Kawaihae Harbor the spirit of aloha. Breakfast talks will Kawaihae Road and Highway 270 take place in the Garden Room, and The first ships to bring horses and sunrise yoga, and the Taste of Big cattle to the Big Island docked at Island will take place on the Mauna Wishard Gallery and Starbucks Kawaihae Harbor. Today, the harbor Kea grounds. Parker Ranch Center, 67-1185 Mamalahoa Hwy D-104 permits much larger sea craft and is host venues of Waimea town, provides a home for the presentation, support, education WAIMEA and promotion of the performing arts and is billed as the Big Island’s premier Hawai’i Preparatory Academy (HPA) cultural resource. The theatre will host 65-1692 Kohala Mountain Road the festival Hospitality Center, breakfast The Gates Performing Arts Center at talks, film screenings and presentations. the Hawai’i Preparatory Academy (HPA) is a 360-seat theatre at the heart of the Parker School Theatre Academy’s performing arts program. 65-1224 Lindsey Road Film screenings and presentations are Originally built in 1920 on the Parker scheduled at Gates throughout the Ranch as an entertainment center for festival weekend. ranch residents and workers, the 280- seat Parker School Theatre has been Kahilu Theatre renovated over the decades but still 67-1186 Lindsey Road maintains its charms of old. Festival The Kahilu Theatre, a 490-seat attendees may enjoy film screenings performing arts theatre in the center and presentations at this venue. Artwork by Christian Enns 6 WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org PROGRAM GUIDE 2012 7 name of film the films Following in the pathway of the Ancestors means finding a path of your own. Chris Luedi, the General Manager Family of the Wa’a of the Fairmont Orchid, is one of four paddlers who completed every leg of the 1750 mile voyage, along Kimokeo Kapahulehua is a man with with Kimokeo Kapahulehua, Jamie a kuleana; a promise to keep. Not Woodburn and Kendall Struxness. just to his uncle Kavika or Hawaii, but to all people and generations, The film is dedicated to Kendall past and future.