ninth annual

January 1-4, 2019 Waimea, Mauna Kea Resort + Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i

January 5-9, 2019 Four Seasons Resort Hualālai Sponsors Contents + About Our Area

inner circle sponsors Contents 4 About the Festival

5 Letter from the Director

8 Host Venues and Map

10 Films

32 Waimea Schedule

36 Waimea Breakfast Talks

40 Four Seasons Schedule

42 Four Seasons Breakfast Talks

44 Guest Speakers and Presentations

74 Artists and Exhibits

media and local sponsors The Glow. Artwork by Christian Enns 90 Thank You to Our Contributors

BIG ISLAND About Our Area TRAVELER The Island of Hawai‘i, known as The the world, inhabit these reefs, along Big Island to avoid confusion with the with Hawaiian Hawksbill turtles, state, was formed by five volcanoes to octopus, eel and smaller reef sharks. became one land mass. The still active Spinner dolphins come to rest in Kīlauea sits at the heart of Hawai‘i shallow bays during the day, before Volcanoes National Park, while Mauna returning to deeper water to hunt at Kea, Mauna Loa and Hualālai rise about night. Humpback whales can be seen the Kohala and Kona coastline, where along the coast during winter, when stark lava fields meet turquoise waters the ocean fills with the sound of their and multihued sand beaches. The beautiful song. gentle slopes of the Kohala Mountains, The town of Waimea, also known as now volcanically extinct, provide the Kamuela, sits in the saddle between backdrop to the town of Waimea and to the dry and green sides of the island, food and beverage sponsors northern Hawi and Kapa‘au. nestled into the Kohala Mountains. The Kohala Coast is one of the driest The pastoral community is known as regions in all of the Hawaiian Islands. much for the paniolo culture the town It is an area rich in both Hawaiian was built around, as for the rainbows history and sea life. Tropical fish, many that reflect the ever-shifting weather of which are found nowhere else in patterns between rain, mist and sun. Cover artwork ©Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai

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About the Festival HOURS OF OPERATION AT FOUR Letter USING THE PROGRAM SEASONS BALLROOM FOYER from the Director All film screenings, presentations and Saturday, Jan 5: 11 am–9 pm special events are listed by day and Sunday, Jan 6: 9 am–9 pm Welcome to the 2019 Waimea Ocean Film Festival. This year’s venue in the festival schedule. Each Monday, Jan 7: 9 am–9 pm Breakfast Talk location is presented, Tuesday, Jan 8: 9 am –9 pm along with its description, in the Wednesday, Jan 9: 9 am –9 pm inspiringfestival offers stories. a dynamic lineup of award-winning films, Breakfast Talk section of the program. dynamic guest speakers, special exhibits, important topics and Films are grouped with other films THEATRE ENTRY Remember to wear your passes. and/or speakers into film blocks, as In many ways, the festival began through the realization of what the dual-impacts shown in the schedule. When Festival volunteers will open doors for seating 15 minutes prior to each of climate change and ocean acidification would mean for our children. As in 2017, filmmakers will be present for through 2018, we’ve continued to see the start of what half of that equation—climate discussion after the film; this is noted show. The theater will be cleared between screenings. andchange—might unusual weather mean. patterns; more intensive and destructive storms; more and by “Q&A.” What you would expect to see in a warming climate would be more unpredictable FESTIVAL HOSPITALITY DESK TBAS (TO BE ANNOUNCED) The Festival Hospitality Desk is located A certain number of films will be stronger hurricanes; more extremes in conditions; more unusual conditions; more in the lobby of the Kahilu Theatre screened as TBAs. The most popular periods of flooding; more periods of drought; more periods of extreme heat; more during the Waimea portion of the event. films from the festival will be shown alongperiods with of extremeall things cold; that more would fires; come more with wind. disruptions Ultimately, in food this and would fresh mean water more supply. This year, the Hospitality Desk will be in at this time, along with a few films difficulty in sustaining agricultural production and uncertainty around water cycles, either foyer of the Ballroom when the pending at publication. TBA schedules festival moves to Four Seasons Resort and special screenings will be posted at The perfect, steady amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere over Hualālai or nearby at outdoor Hoku the Festival Hospitality Desk starting on the past 10,000 years allowed for the development of agriculture and civilization, Amphitheatre. Passes and programs Wednesday, Jan 2. TBA schedules will and the resulting human population growth—from a few million individuals then, are available for pickup at the Festival also be posted simultaneously on-line prompting the first migrations outward, to seven billion now. This perfect amount of Hospitality Desk at Kahilu Theatre and on Facebook. Please let our theatre CO2 maintained a stable climate, with a degree of storm events and variation that was starting 9 am-5 pm Dec 29. Passes may volunteers know if you have a TBA largely manageable, around which we could plan, and rely on agriculture as a basis for be purchased at the desk, along with request! our subsistence, our economy and our way of life. other items. The Festival Hospitality By disrupting this stable climate system, we are changing the predictable patterns of THE PASS SYSTEM Desk is available to answer questions rainfall and climate we have relied on to grow food, for reliable sources of fresh water The pass system enables the festival and provide additional and for a sense of security in the places we live. The implications for the economy, let to organize a dynamic event that information as the festival progresses. alone our lives, are profound. includes films, speakers, presentations, To understand global warming—and resulting climate change—it is important to FESTIVAL HOSPITALITY DESK Breakfast Talks and other activities, understand that approximately one-third of the CO2 we release through combustion HOURS OF OPERATION AT KAHILU plus allows for rich and complex enters the atmosphere; approximately one-third is absorbed by the ocean; and THEATRE content, with one aspect woven approximately one-third is taken up by trees. Every molecule of CO2, or other Saturday, Dec 29: 9 am–5 pm together with the next. greenhouse gas we add to the atmosphere, re-radiates heat back to earth that would Sunday, Dec 30: 9 am–5 pm While passes are the ideal way to otherwise escape into space. You might envision each molecule of CO2 as a ping-pong Monday, Dec 31: 9 am–3 pm enjoy the festival, remaining seats paddle. With more CO2 in the atmosphere re-radiating or bouncing heat back, both for films and presentations will be Tuesday, Jan 1: 9 am–10 pm ofearth the andocean ocean to change temperatures at a rapid are rate. warming, Because and increasing the climate acidity is changing. dissolves the skeletal Wednesday, Jan 2: 9 am–10 pm opened for individual ticket purchase 15 At the same time, the excess CO2 being absorbed by the ocean is causing the acidity Thursday, Jan 3: 9 am–10 pm minutes prior to each show. For more Friday, Jan 4: 9 am–6 pm information on passes, please speak structures of organisms at the bottom of the food chain, this second threat—now with the Hospitality Desk, visit the known as ocean acidification—could potentially have a devastating impact on the website at www.waimeaoceanfilm.org, entire ocean ecosystem; just as we start to have trouble growing food on land. or contact the festival office at 808-854- Unfortunately, at a time when we most need to be working together towards a 6095. common goal—addressing a common threat—we stand divided, polarized and manipulated from without and within. In the absence of political leadership on this 4 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org Festival Program 2019 5 Letter from the Director Letter from the Director

theissue—with way ahead. great minds in both parties working together to find balanced solutions— machineryOur founding and trucks—as fathers understood part of an the overall importance system ofand education including at in-house the core fleets—of a perhaps it will be left to those at the helm of the business world, and to states, to forge form an important part of the overall equation. women who gave or risked their lives in defense of the nation. These are individuals Through the years, we’ve shown films that have given homage to the brave men and successful democracy. It is critical all Americans have access to a good education, including a solid foundation in history, science and literature. In this age of emerging who chose, and continue to choose, to step into the line of fire on our behalf. tech, the importance of understanding history, like the lessons of Versailles, are more Fortunately, none of what we need do to combat climate change requires that we importantOur founding now than fathers perhaps also understood ever in the past.the foundational Determining role how of to a freeprovide press a solidin a positivemake a similar in terms choice. of what Everything it would meanwe could for doour to daily combat lives. climate change is positive— education, in all corners of the nation, is another great task of our time. positive for our economy, positive for our country, positive in terms of job creation and democracy. Until 1979, broadcast news was regulated as a service to the American To tackle the problem quickly, it is helpful to understand that nearly one-half of people. It could be that we need to bring this system back, so that broadcast news the energy we consume is actually consumed by buildings. The energy requirements again becomes a not-for-profit arm of the networks, set up solely as a service to the of a building can be reduced 70 to 80 percent simply through good design. Day-lit, nation. Understanding the channels that can be established through social media— well-designed buildings are more pleasant and productive places to live and work, in how they can be manipulated and used, and what this might mean for the country— addition to resulting in lower energy bills. It is estimated that most buildings in the will be important for us moving forward as well. nation will need to be re-built to some degree within the next 30 years, providing Regardless of differences in political beliefs, it is crucial that we come together to opportunity for retrofit, while new buildings could be built to LEED standards. address the issues we face, both as they impact the ocean and as we experience them Solar and wind production present an enormous opportunity on a global scale in on land. The issues we face are daunting, if we admit them. The opportunities in them meeting the remaining electricity demand, perhaps using pumped water systems as are exciting, boundless and without limit. To find our way through, we must both storage. Big box and other roof top space could be utilized as primary solar energy recognize the peril and work together towards solutions, while we can. production sites, rather than open space, perhaps leased by utilities or municipalities Thank you to everyone who makes the festival possible. The films, speakers, talks to maintain the traditional grid. This could be done at a substantially lower cost than Weand hope exhibits you throughout enjoy. the festival are not-to-be-missed. Many touch on important development of new generation plants, not to mention the efficiency inherent in this topics, while others bring inspiration and fun. Start early, to see as much as you can. energy source; yielding cost reductions for both rate and tax payer. In terms of job creation, windmill manufacturing plants could be built in coal-mining towns, offering good, above-ground jobs for these communities; or solar arrays built in Mahalo, depressed or denuded areas. Energy companies are perhaps best positioned overall to Tania Howard jump into the solar race early, to maximize gains. Transportation accounts for roughly 29 percent of energy consumed, over half shiftof which to systems is in the thinking. shipment of goods and materials. Solving transportation issues— Founder and Director developing good transportation options and reducing transportation costs—requires a

A multi-modal transportation system based around rail is the most efficient—and hence ultimately least expensive—transportation system to build and maintain. People love to walk, ride their bicycles and take the train, when nice facilities exist; daycommunities to day. with good transportation systems tend to be highly desirable and pleasant places to live, work and do business, as walking becomes integrated into the

While it is challenging to retrofit an urban landscape—and better to plan and build with a systems approach to start—doing so at any time saves money in the end. The same number of people can be moved in a single rail line as in eight lanes of traffic. The implications of this are important to understand—from land use and open space, to reduction in the carbon footprint incurred by the roadway system, to tax payer savings given the burden of maintaining ever-expanding roadways. Electric cars, buses,

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Host Venues

WAIMEA fine millinery. Anna Ranch will host Kahilu Theatre morning Breakfast Talks 8:15-9:15 am A historic, 490-seat theatre in the Jan 2-4, with coffee and light fare center of Waimea town, Kahilu Theatre provided. will host the Festival’s Hospitality Desk and film screenings. Inquire at KOHALA COAST the Festival Hospitality Desk at Kahilu Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Theatre with questions. Breakfast Talks are scheduled at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel 8:15-9:15 Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy (HPA) – am Jan 2-4 in the Garden Room, with Gates Performing Arts Center coffee and light fare provided. A sunrise The Gates Performing Arts Center is a yoga class is available to festival pass 360-seat theatre, located in the heart holders 7-8 am Jan 2-4 on the lawn of the upper Hawai‘i Preparatory by the lu‘au grounds during this same Academy (HPA) campus, about two period. Festival artist Christian Enns miles west of town. HPA Gates will host will paint en plein air at the beach 8-11 film screenings and presentations. am Jan 2-4 and 6-8:30 pm Jan 3-4 in the lobby, where attendees can observe as Parker School Theatre Enns works on a large-scale oil painting. The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i Turn right onto Mauna Lani Drive. Originally built in 1920 on Parker Ranch hosts film showings and presentations Proceed past the Guard House to the as an entertainment center for ranch in its own Lehua Theater, as well traffic circle and take the first right to residents and workers, Parker Theatre as exhibits and presentations in the the Fairmont Orchid on North Kaniku has been renovated over the decades Anna Ranch adjoining downstairs ballrooms. Drive. and seats 280. Still maintaining its Stay on North Kaniku Drive until original charm, Parker Theatre is within Directions to the Fairmont Orchid, you reach the main entrance to the walking distance of Kahilu Theatre. It Hawai‘i from Waimea: Fairmont Orchid at the end of the is suggested attendees walk between Drive approximately 11 miles down drive, less than a mile. Valet and self- the two. Parker Theatre will host film Kawaihae Road (Highway 19), until parking available. screenings. you reach the T-intersection on your left, where the road heads to Kona. FOUR SEASONS Anna Ranch Heritage Center Turn left to continue on Highway 19. Listed on both the National and State Four Seasons Resort Hualālai You are now traveling south, parallel will host the Festival’s Hospitality Desk, Registers of Historic Places, the ranch to the ocean on your right. film screenings and presentations Jan was purchased in 1848 by Englishman 5-9. Breakfast Talks are scheduled James Fay and his Hawaiian wife Continue approximately seven miles, upstairs at ‘Ulu Restaurant 8:45- Ka‘ipukai, and was in the same ranching past the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel 9:45 am Jan 6-9, with coffee and family for five generations. Visitors may entrance, until you see the Mauna pastries provided. Contact the Festival tour the spectacular and expansive Lani Resort sign on your right before a Hospitality Desk with questions. gardens as well as the 14-room, historic tall coconut grove entry road. ranch house with a treasure trove of Hawaiian koa furnishings, artifacts and

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White Rhino

Initially started as a project to share the stories behind surf photographer Brian Bielmann’s most memorable photos, White Rhino evolved into a broader story following the unfolding of a dual quest: that of the big wave surfers seeking to ride some of the largest swells yet seen in the South Pacific, including a mythical “white rhino” wave, and the photographers who position themselves to capture the Nathan Fletcher at Teahupo‘o. Photo ©Brian Bielmann action. Brian Bielmann’s images have appeared on more than 150 magazine Originally, this film was plotted to be a covers and were featured in over 30 short, revealing the stories behind Brian books. His work has been published in Bielmann’s most memorable photos. a wide array of magazines, including After completing the interview process, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, National we realized there was a much bigger Geographic and Sports Illustrated. story to be told. As the film developed, Bielmann’s work captures the surf we received more and more content lifestyle and continues to push the through the generosity of some of boundaries of photography both above the finest surf cinematographers and and below the water. photographers in the industry, allowing The idea for the film was born us to tell the stories behind these when director Brent Storm met Brian memorable days in surfing.” Bielmann at the HIC Pro in Hale‘iwa, Surfers featured in the film include Hawai‘i on the North Short of O‘ahu. Kalani Chapman, Dave Wassel, Nathan Director Brent Storm notes: “What Fletcher, Bruce Irons, Mark Healey, Kohl began as a passion project has lead to Christensen and Herbie Fletcher. Other much bigger things. This film would photographers whose work-in-action not have been possible if it wasn’t for is featured include Peter ‘Joli’ Wilson, the support of the surf community. Ryan Foley and Erik Aeder.

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Albatross The Camino Voyage Chris Jordan (US, 97 min) Dónal O’Céilleachair (Ireland, 98 min) Initially a photography project—documenting the Hawai‘i Premiere impact of plastic on albatross—the film brings to life For nearly a thousand years, people sailed from the story of albatross on Midway Atoll, including the Ireland to Northern Spain; to walk the Camino issue of ocean plastic. With stunning cinematography de Santiago. When a writer, two musicians, an throughout, Albatross presents a poetic and visual artist and a stonemason decide to attempt the narrative on these birds: beautiful, enthralling, pilgrimage again, they build a traditional boat, poignant and, at times, not easy-to-watch. or “Naomhóg,” by hand and make their way on Parental guidance suggested. the dangerous, 1,500-mile journey, in stages, sharing music, poetry and stories along the way. With subtitles.

Apollo 13: The Inside Story Chasing Coral Tom Whitter (UK, 50 min) Jeff Orlowski (USA, 89 min) Hawai‘i Premiere 2018 Audience Choice Winner When an explosion tore through the skin of Apollo 13, Coral reefs are the ocean’s nursery. As 200,000 miles from earth, NASA mounted a dramatic carbon emissions warm the planet and ocean inter-space rescue, relaying meticulous instructions temperatures rise, a phenomenon called “coral from mission control in Houston to the astronauts on bleaching”—a sign of mass coral death—has board. For the first time, the astronauts themselves, been accelerating around the world. The along with the people on the ground, share their bleaching has implications for the entire ocean experience in this story of ingenuity, level-headed ecosystem and landscape. A team of divers, thinking and problem-solving under pressure. photographers, technicians and scientists set out to document the process.

Attenborough: Behind the Lens Chasing Ice Anne Sommerfield (UK, 50 min) Jeff Orlowski (USA, 76 min) Hawai‘i Premiere In person: James Balog In person: Anthony Geffen 2013 Audience Choice Winner In his early 80s, David Attenborough embarked on After a 2005 National Geographic assignment one of the most ambitious chapters of his career, on the Earth’s changing climate, photographer collaborating on 11 pioneering and fascinating film James Balog returned to the Arctic to capture projects—pushing the boundaries of both knowledge a multi-year record of the world’s changing and film—all while maintaining his busy schedule as glaciers using time-lapse cameras. The images sought-after presenter and narrator. Using behind- compress years into seconds, capturing ancient the-scenes footage, the film shares a rare glimpse mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at into both the projects, and the man. an alarming rate.

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Chasing Niagara Conquest of the Skies – Rush Sturges (USA, 77 min) The First to Fly In person: Rush Sturges David Lee (UK, 50 min) A story within a story, Chasing Niagara provides Hawai‘i Premiere a fascinating history of the running of Niagara In person: Anthony Geffen Falls, in some form or another, now illegal, along With astonishing detail, David Attenborough with an extraordinary look at the kayaking skills seeks to unravel the fascinating 300-million- of some of the world’s top professional white year story of the evolution of flight. He water kayakers—Rush Sturges, Evan Garcia, Tyler begins at the beginning; with the insects. Bradt and Rafa Ortiz—and their running of large Stunning images help provide new insight, as waterfalls, from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest. Attenborough looks at the evolution of these Parental guidance suggested. early fliers.

Cold Water Wetsuit Revolution Conquest of the Skies – Rivals Matt Crocker, James Dean (UK, 4 min) David Lee (UK, 50 min) USA Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere Since the dawn of surfing on British shores, to In person: Anthony Geffen quote the wit and words of the filmmakers, “the David Attenborough continues to chart the British natives have faced one obstacle above origins of flying animals and birds, turning to the all—the bloody cold. To really rule the icy waves, flight of larger creatures: extinct reptiles that they would need to get creative, industrious if you flew on wings of skin; dinosaurs that evolved will.” Hence the story of Dennis Cross, a waterman feathers to become the ancestors of birds; and with a roll of neoprene, a love of surfing and a the gliding mammals that became bats. determination to find a way.

Conquering the Dragon Conquest of the Skies – Triumph Rich Heap (UK, 37 min) David Lee (UK, 50 min) USA Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere Conquering the Dragon shares the story of five In person: Anthony Geffen participants in the Berghaus Dragon’s Back Race®. David Attenborough concludes his history of The foot race follows the mountainous, spiny flight with a detailed look at the highly skilled backbone of Wales from north to south—on a and versatile birds and bats we see today. He demanding, five-day course spanning 196 miles— examines the exceptionally diverse array of birds, over 50,000 feet of elevation change and wild with their keen sense of sight—from peregrine terrain. The film tracks the race as it unfolds, falcons to hummingbirds—to the sonar-guided revealing the runners’ inspiring spirit and the precision of bats, traveling to Gomantong cave in stunning Welsh landscape. Borneo to witness one million bats take flight at once.

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The Coronation Emocean Harvey Lilley (UK, 59 min) Tony Harrington (Australia, 63 min) Hawai‘i Premiere Big Island Premiere In person: Anthony Geffen In person: Tony Harrington Released while filmmaker Anthony Geffen attended Emocean shares stories from people who have built the festival in 2018, Geffen returns to share this their lives around the sea; each relate their own rare production of the coronation of the Queen unique tale and sense of connection to the ocean, of England on June 2, 1953 at Westminster Abbey, from adventure and inspiration to challenging in which—for the first time—the queen recounts loss. From Hawai‘i to Tahiti, and from California to her memories of that day. Interviews with others remote spots in northwest Australia, the film quietly involved bring to life the story behind-the-scenes, imparts the power and mystery of the ocean, and along with that of the coronation regalia. the effect it has on those who spend their lives around it.

Dolphin Reef Family of the Wa‘a Keith Scholey (USA, 77 min) Alyssa Fedele (USA, 81 min) In person: Paul Baribault 2012 Audience Choice Winner Disneynature dives under the sea in Dolphin Reef Shown in honor of the upcoming voyage of to frolic with some of the planet’s most engaging Makali‘i through the Northwestern Hawaiian animals—dolphins. Echo is a young, bottlenose Islands, Family of the Wa‘a recounts the dolphin who just wants to play. Dolphin society is commitment Kimokeo Kapahulehua made to complex and Echo must learn to do his part. But his uncle to paddle all 1,750 miles through the with humpback whales, orcas, sea turtles and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands by outrigger cuddlefish as a distraction, Echo has a tough time paddling canoe, and the extraordinary team of resisting all the ocean has to offer. people who assembled to paddle with him.

Eclipse Follow Through Anthony Bonello (Canada, 31 min) Adam Clark, Isaiah Branch-Boyle In person: Bjarne Salén (USA, 22 min) 2017 Winner Best Film - Adventure Since the age of 16, Caroline Gleich has been To realize photographer Reuben Krabbe’s vision of driven by the challenge laid out in The Chuting capturing a single unique image—one of skiers in Gallery, which describes a set of 90 difficult action during and in front of a solar eclipse—the and dangerous ski mountaineering lines in Salomon Freeski TV team set out on an expedition Utah’s Wasatch Range that few have managed to the Arctic. They positioned themselves to be in to complete. In setting out, however, Gleich the right place at the right time on March, 20, 2015, must not only overcome her own self-doubts, not knowing until that moment whether conditions but also the negative input of random people in would open for the shot. this social media world.

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The Game: The Story of Hurling – Going Solo Episode One Ant Hoard (South Africa, 5 min) Gerry Nelson (Ireland, 52 min) Hawai‘i Premiere USA Premiere In this beautiful, short film, Andrew Kellett The Game explores the Irish sport of hurling, which shares the special connection he’s always felt evolved in its own unique way in Ireland, and yet with the Witte River, above Cape Town, and the shares the common human experience of a stick and treasured sense of solitude he’s found kayaking ball game, developed in various shapes and forms there. He notes the added danger and reality across cultures. Through extensive research, the inherent in kayaking solo, relating his own first episode lays the groundwork on how hurling was experience, along with that of bringing his son founded, through a difficult time, bringing hurling’s back to kayak with him, years later. story to life.

The Game: The Story of Hurling – Hesburgh Episode Two Patrick Creadon (USA, 106 min) Gerry Nelson (Ireland, 50 min) Hawai‘i Premiere USA Premiere Hesburgh offers a thought provoking look at The Game continues to explore the origins of hurling more than 50 years of American history, seen from the realm of legend through its growth over through the life and achievements of the long- the last century into one of the world’s fastest field time president of the University of Notre Dame, sports today. As hurling developed into a national the late Father Theodore Hesburgh. Advisor and sport, and travel became more accessible, people friend to national and world leaders, Hesburgh traveled across country to see legendary players. was asked to help with the most challenging Emerging radio, and then television broadcasts, issues of the day. Parental guidance suggested. brought the game into every home as well.

The Game: The Story of Hurling – Home of Trails Episode Three Stu Thomson (UK, 6 min) Gerry Nelson (Ireland, 55 min) Danny MacAskill goes to beautiful Graubünden, USA Premiere Switzerland and takes the Graubünden motto, For the true fan of sport, and of the Irish, Episode “everything is ridable,” to a whole new level. Three continues to delve further into the game, No summit is too high, no trail too steep, no exploring the chase for perfection in modern hurling boat too small, no table off limits. Joined and the elevation in tactics, fitness and training. by fellow mountain bike pro, Swiss Claudio Modern hurling brings the early stick and ball game Caluori, the two bring another stunning and fun to a new, colorful level all its own; developed and mountain bike sequence to the big screen. perfected on this unique island, set amidst the cold, grey of the Atlantic.

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How to Run 100 Miles Instant Surf Brendan Leonard (USA, 28 min) Adam Bell (UK, 5 min) Hawai‘i Premiere USA Premiere In person: Jayson Sime Matt Smith has been shooting Polaroid and Inspirational speaker Jayson Sime grew up in instant photographs for over a decade, poverty. He was bullied in school because of his capturing the surf and beach scenes that dyslexia, started to fist-fight back, learned to inspire him. Smith breathes new life into this wrestle formally instead, lost every match for near-forgotten form of photography, using two years, before finally winning his first. Sime expired film and an armory of vintage cameras went on to work his way, one step at a time, to he has collected and repaired over the years. a successful career as a political organizer. And, then, he ran his first ultramarathon.

The Human Element Ireland’s Deep Atlantic – Leviathan Mathew Testa (USA, 78 min) Ken O’Sullivan (Ireland, 52 min) Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere In person: James Balog In person: Chad Wiggins Photographer James Balog, whose work in Ken O’Sullivan hopes to find that both blue and establishing the Extreme Ice Survey was sperm whales may once again be found off the coast documented in the film Chasing Ice, seeks ways of Ireland. In collaboration with researchers and to use his camera to convey the impact climate scientists from around the North Atlantic, along change and air quality issues are having on the with ocean acoustics expert Dr. Joanne O’Brien, lives of Americans. Balog looks at sea level rise, O’Sullivan embarks to document these animals as wildfires, asthma and hurricanes, along with recent part of an effort to confirm migration routes—an investment in solar by coal mining executives. important step in their conservation.

Inside the Indus Ireland’s Deep Atlantic – Ciarán Heurteau (France, 27 min) The Open Ocean Hawai‘i Premiere Ken O’Sullivan (Ireland, 52 min) In November 2016, fresh from winning the extreme Hawai‘i Premiere kayaking world title, Spaniard Aniol Serrasolses, In person: Chad Wiggins New Zealander Mike Dawson and Irish filmmaker Underwater cameraman Ken O’Sullivan sets out on a Ciarán Heurteau went to Pakistan to attempt a series of voyages into the North Atlantic. O’Sullivan descent of the fabled Rondu Gorge, on the Indus encounters large aggregations of sharks, films whales River. The film shares beautiful scenery, epic underwater for the first-time off Irish shores and whitewater and the support and assistance the discovers deep-water coral reefs supporting eco- kayakers receive from Pakistanis along the way. systems of tens of thousands of species of animals and plants, along with spawning fish stocks and upwellings of plankton.

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Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees Lost Land of the Volcano – Harvey Lilley (UK, 58 min) Episode One Hawai‘i Premiere Jonny Keeling (UK, 60 min) Judi Dench joins tree scientists and historians In person: Chad Wiggins to unlock the remarkable secret lives of trees, Lost Land of the Volcano follows a scientific the mechanisms behind how they work and the expedition to the island of New Guinea. The stories they might share. With the latest scientific expedition team, which includes specialist techniques, and through the four seasons, she zoologists, explorers and the BBC Natural History learns how they communicate, hears how they Unit crew, travels to the extinct volcano of Mount intake water and discovers how they fight off Bosavi in central Papua New Guinea to document invading armies and extreme weather. the biodiversity of this little-visited area, discovering over 40 new species.

Ka Hana Kapa Lost Land of the Volcano – Joy Chong-Stannard (USA, 57 min) Episode Two In person: Victoria Kneubuhl, Roen Hufford Jonny Keeling (UK, 60 min) Ka Hana Kapa documents the history of kapa In person: Chad Wiggins in Hawai‘i and follows the complex process of The team of scientists and filmmakers continue Hawaiian kapa making from start to finish. In to explore the jungle wilderness of New Hawai‘i, kapa, or bark cloth made from the wauke Guinea. Adventurer and natural historian Steve plant, was used for everything from clothing to Backshall leads an expedition into a cave; while important ceremonies, making it an integral part of wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan traces everyday life. In the late 1960s and 1970s, a small birds-of-paradise through their calls, filming group of women revived this lost art. their courtship behaviors. The enthusiasm of the team in discovering new species is catching.

Living in the Future’s Past Lost Land of the Volcano – Susan Kucera (USA, 84 min) Episode Three Hawai‘i Premiere Jonny Keeling (UK, 60 min) Living in the Future’s Past provides a fascinating In person: Chad Wiggins and spell-binding discussion, through a series of Former Oxford University biologist Dr. George compelling interviews and eye-opening imagery, McGavin ventures towards Turvuvar, an active into human behavior patterns and their unintended volcano, where he uncovers life in surprising consequences for the future. The film delves into places. Steve Backshall, Gordon Buchanan and the hold peer pressure has on the individual and biologist Kris Helgen descend into the crater of suggests a positive future outcome were we to a giant, extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea, reexamine our beliefs around what is possible. where they find a new silky cuscus, a tree kangaroo, a wallaby and a very cute, large rat.

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Made in Ireland Natural History Museum Alive Mikey Corker (Ireland, 28 min) Mike Davis (UK, 64 min) Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere On the western edge of Europe—its raw and rural In a special collaboration with experts and coastline battered by giant storms, frigid water and curators from the museum, and using ground- huge waves—Ireland is a unique surfing spot. The breaking technology, David Attenborough harsh environment has shaped its own distinctive explores the Natural History Museum in London, surf culture, which includes a group of determined after dark, when the exhibitions magically come surfers pushing the limits of big wave surfing—in the to life. As night falls, Attenborough meets the cold, dark water—drawing in even those from more extinct creatures that fascinate him the most: idyllic locations. dinosaurs, Ice Age beasts and giant reptiles.

Midway: Edge of Tomorrow North of Nightfall Ian Shive (USA, 40 min) Jeremy Grant (USA, 66 min) Hawai‘i Premiere Freeride mountain bikers Darren Berrecloth, In person: Alice Garrett Carson Storch, Cam Zink and Tom van Midway: Edge of Tomorrow recounts both the Steenbergen embark on an expedition to the natural and human history of Midway Atoll, including Arctic’s uninhabited Axel Heiberg Island. With the pivotal WWII battle with which it is identified. guidance from scientists based on the island Overseen by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the to study glacial retreat, the bikers discover film shares historical footage of the battle, along a rapidly changing environment, along with with portraits of the atoll’s wildlife, including challenging first descents topping 2,500 feet. spinner dolphins, Laysan albatross and green sea turtles. Parental guidance suggested.

The Mirnavator Rail Road Sarah Menzies (USA, 11 min) Gustavo Imigrante (Portugal, 23 min) Hawai‘i Premiere USA Premiere Ultra-runners face obstacles every step of the Rail Road follows professional surfer Nic Von way, from finding time to train to dealing with Rupp on a surf trip, but this time traveling via the challenges of the sport itself: physical fatigue, rail rather than plane. As Von Rupp notes, “We injuries, conditions, weather, altitude and self- live in an age where there is a sense of limited doubt. While competing in her first 50K trail race time. For this trip, we opted to take the long of the season, Mirna Valerio finds—in our social road, and found out the longest is actually the media world—that she must also overcome negative oldest…The train is a path of history, full of comments from random people. people, but most of all…full of time!”

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This and Nothing Else: Red Bull Wa‘a Sense of Wonder Justin Mitchell, Marc Levy, Marc Solomon Mathieu Le Lay (France, 3 min) (USA, 30 min) USA Premiere In person: Red Bull Wa‘a Set in the Dolomites, in the early hours of the Once a mode of transportation between islands, morning, Sense of Wonder evokes the feeling paddling an outrigger canoe is now Hawai‘i’s official of early morning stillness, of mist rising in the team sport. The season builds towards the grueling mountains, of the first light of dawn breaking race from Moloka‘i to O‘ahu; the Moloka‘i Hoe. pink and orange through the clouds, of wonder While over 1,000 paddlers compete from around the at the beauty all around. “This undefinable world, Team Red Bull Wa‘a, newly formed on the Big beauty,” the filmmaker writes, “pointing so Island—with a hardworking, local crew at the core— clearly to something immeasurably greater has its eyes set on the big prize. than ourselves.”

The Ridge Serengeti Rules Stu Thomson (UK, 7 min) Nicolas Brown (UK, USA, 84 min) Danny MacAskill returns home to the Isle of Skye, Big Island Premiere in his native Scotland, to attempt his lifelong In the 1960s, a small group of scientists, dream of riding the Cuillin Ridge. A technically working in various parts of the world, challenging route for even an accomplished independently come to understand that mountaineer to hike, MacAskill imagines riding some species, or “keystones,” maintain the the trail on his mountain bike. Featuring jaw- conditions and environment necessary to dropping imagery, mind-boggling mountain biking support the whole web of life around them; sequences and Danny MacAskill himself. this holds for any ecosystem, in any location. When keystones are removed, other species and, at times, whole ecosystems, disappear.

Satori Shredding Monsters - Mavericks Rick Wall (South Africa, 54 min) Pedro Temboury, JT Taylor (Spain, 53 min) Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere A beautiful and cinematic surf film, Satori follows Shredding Monsters: Mavericks follows big a group of surfers whose lives were shaped by the wave surfer Garrett McNamara as he returns waves near Cape Town, at Dungeons and Sunset Reef. to Mavericks for the first time since an epic The film notes, “To have the confidence to overcome wipeout there two years prior. McNamara is your fears, and unlock your potential, you need joined by surfers Jamie Mitchell, Aaron Gold, to be completely present. The feeling of opening Alessandro Marciano, Emily Erickson and 16-year- yourself up to the ocean is one of both beauty and old Luca Padua as they face this challenging fear. In that moment ‘satori’ is reached.” and notoriously menacing wave, and McNamara paddles in again. Parental guidance suggested.

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Snowman Time to Choose Mike Douglas (Canada, 82 min) Charles Ferguson (USA, 97 min) Growing up, Mike Douglas and Kevin Fogolin loved Time to Choose explores the comprehensive skiing, spending every weekend in the mountains scope of climate change along with an array they could. Snowman follows their split paths of solutions available to us to change course, as Douglas moves to the mountains, becomes a should we implement them in time, taking professional skier—part of the New Canadian Air an unwavering look at this moment in human Force—is featured on magazine covers and helps history. Through interviews with world- set the course in freeskiing. Fogolin’s path back renowned entrepreneurs, innovators and to the snow, takes a little longer. people on the front line, Time to Choose shares both the challenge and the opportunity.

Surf Siberia Vague à l’Âme Konstantin Kokorev (Russia, 79 min) Vincent Kardasik (France, 52 min) USA Premiere Big Island Premiere Beautifully filmed, Surf Siberia shares a glimpse On December 11, 2014, Benjamin Sanchis into the history of surfing, and surf culture, in was towed into one of the biggest waves ever Russia. The film follows surfers Kostya Kokorev, ridden at Nazaré. He fell, was filmed through Sergei Rasshivaev, Anton Morozov, Irina Kosobukina, the ensuing dramatic wipeout, and earned the Dmitry Pitiya and David Dzhalagoni in a two-year- WSL “Wipeout of the Year” Award. Determined long quest as they search for waves—and walk to win a different kind of big wave award, and camp in the snow—from St. Petersburg to Sanchis sets out to find and ride the biggest Vladivostok, to the Arctic. With subtitles. waves, working with other surfers on the way. With subtitles.

Tales by Light – Dylan River The Weight of Water Abraham Joffe (Australia, 46 min) Michael Brown (USA, 80 min) Hawai‘i Premiere Hawai‘i Premiere Dylan River is an award-winning Aboriginal filmmaker In person: Harlan Taney and photographer. Largely self-taught, River comes In 2001, Erik Weihenmayer became one of a from a family of storytellers and filmmakers; small group of people to have climbed all Seven his grandmother, Freda Glynn, was one of the Summits, including Everest, and is the first blind founders of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media person to have done so. The Weight of Water Association (CAAMA). Inspired by his grandmother’s follows Weihenmayer as he now attempts to kayak work, Dylan’s mission is to find examples of living through Grand Canyon. Joined by fellow blind Aboriginal culture. kayaker Lonnie Bedwell, Weihenmayer again sets out to acheive what only few can imagine.

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White Rhino Young Sea Brent Storm (USA, Canada, 67 min) Mattias A. Klum (Sweden, 55 min) Big Island Premiere USA Premiere What started as a project to share the stories behind National Geographic photographer Mattias A. surf photographer Brian Bielmann’s most memorable Klum follows the cycle of seasons around the photos, evolved into a broader story following the beautiful, yet also threatened, inland Baltic unfolding of a dual quest: that of the big wave Sea. In this quiet film, The Young Sea shows surfers seeking to ride some of the largest swells the hidden life of the extraordinary species yet seen in the South Pacific, including a mythical that live in the Baltic Sea; a unique place that, “white rhino,” and the photographers who position as the filmmaker notes, “is worth fighting to themselves to capture the action. save, to pass to future generations as a vibrant, living place.”

Wolf Spirit Julia Huffman (USA, 9 min) Surfing in the Russian arctic, from the film Surf Siberia. Photo ©Tania Elisarieva World Premiere Most who are unfamiliar with wild wolves, don’t realize filming a wolf up close, as done by National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg, is extremely rare. Wolves are elusive and avoid contact with humans, generally remaining out of sight. Brandenburg describes a deeper understanding of wolves, along with a sadness in their decline, as they continue to be hunted.

World’s Highest Marathon Bjarne Salén (USA, 7 min) Hawai‘i Premiere In person: Bjarne Salén The Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon is held each year from Everest Base Camp on May 29, with the course, and runners, crisscrossing the high sherpa trails of Khumbu Valley. The event commemorates the historic ascent of Mount Everest by the late Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary on May 29, 1953. Christopher Mohn, a Lyme disease survivor, takes up the challenge.

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Anna Ranch Heritage Center Anna Ranch Heritage Center Harlan Taney Jayson Sime Based out of Flagstaff, Arizona, Harlan Jayson Sime is a motivational speaker, Taney is the founder of 4 Corner Film coach, ultrarunner and yoga teacher. Logistics, a company specializing in Sime is the founder of Right to Shine outdoor and adventure film production. LLC, which provides training and With clients including National coaching to individuals and teams. He Geographic, BBC, Discovery Channel recently wrote and published his first and others, 4 Corner Film Logistics book, Self-Care Hacks: 50 Tips and provides innovative filming solutions Tricks to Maximize Your Performance, and logistics for film production in Well-Being and Happiness. Join Jayson challenging, remote and difficult- Sime as he shares words of wisdom and to-access regions, and harsh climate thoughts on how to run 100 miles. conditions. Join Harlan Taney as he shares stories behind-the-scenes from Mauna Kea Beach Hotel filming in remote and challenging Jules Kortenhorst environments. Jules Kortenhorst is the chief executive Kauna‘oa Bay from Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. Photo credit: Josh Fletcher officer (CEO) of Rocky Mountain Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Institute. Prior to RMI, Kortenhorst Paul Baribault was the founding CEO of the European Paul Baribault is a vice president at Climate Foundation (ECF); served as a Breakfast Talks Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. He member of the Dutch parliament; and leads Studio Marketing Operations and worked for 20 years as a corporate Start your day with light fare, coffee Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Strategy for Pixar Animation Studios executive, both as CEO for International and compelling conversation. Breakfast Anthony Geffen and Disney Animation Studios films. Operations of ClientLogic Corporation talks are from 8:15-9:15 am. Breakfast Anthony Geffen has garnered over Baribault also leads the Disneynature and as managing director of Shell talk locations are the Garden Room at 50 international awards, including film label as the Brand, Creative, Bulgaria. Join Kortenhorst as he the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and at Anna multiple British Academy Film Awards Marketing and Production Lead. discusses the market transition to a Ranch Heritage Center in Waimea. (BAFTAs), multiple Emmy Awards and Baribault has overseen a range of clean and prosperous low carbon energy the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award for films in this role, including Incredibles future and the importance of the role outstanding contribution to film and 2, Finding Dory, Frozen, Coco, Moana, buildings play in this transition. wed Jan 2 television. His work encompasses 11 Inside Out, Zootopia, Monsters, projects with David Attenborough, University, The Muppets, Earth, Anna Ranch Heritage Center including the award-winning Conquest Oceans, African Cats, Chimpanzees, Attendee Talk Story of the Skies series. Join Anthony Geffen Bears, Monkey Kingdom and Born in Bring your mug, your Festival Program, as he shares behind-the-scenes stories China. Join Paul Baribault as he shares grab a cup of coffee and hear the buzz from recent productions and his work behind-the-scenes stories from recent from other attendees as you plan your with both David Attenborough and the productions. day. late Stephen Hawking.

Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai

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Morning Activities

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Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Yoga on the Beach 7-8 am Join fellow festival attendees 7-8 am Jan 2-4 for sunrise yoga with instructor Chelsea Morriss. Classes meet at the upper lawn by the lu‘au grounds, and if conditions permit, will move to the beach. Come enjoy first light on the ocean and an invigorating start to the day. Bring your own mat or towel, and a water bottle. Photo credit: Josh Fletcher

Photo credit: Josh Fletcher

Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai

wed Jan 2 – Fri Jan 4

Kawaihae Canoe Club Kawaihae Canoe Club Paddle an Outrigger Canoe in Kawaihae Harbor 6:15-7:45 am The Kawaihae Canoe Club was formed Waimea Ocean Film Festival attendees in 1972 by a group of athletic and civic- are invited to join Kawaihae Canoe Club minded individuals from Waimea and in Kawaihae Harbor to learn how to has been instrumental to the revival paddle an outrigger canoe. of the ancient Hawaiian tradition of Participants must sign up in advance, outrigger canoe racing on the Big Island. know how to swim and sign a waiver, The club’s dedication to promoting recognizing they understand there is and perpetuating outrigger canoe some risk to any ocean-based activity. paddling brings participants ranging Participation is limited. Please sign in age from 10 to 80. Hawai‘i’s official up at the Festival Hospitality Desk at team sport challenges kids by giving Kahilu Theatre by 5 pm the evening them a sense of direction and discipline. prior, or contact the Festival Office at 808-854-6095. Participants should arrive 15 minutes early.

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four seasons schedule January 5–9, 2019

sat JAN 5 sun jan 6 mon jan 7 tue jan 8 wed jan 9 Ballroom Hoku ballroom ballroom Ballroom Hoku ballroom

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Four Seasons Breakfast Talks

Start your day with coffee, pastries and compelling conversation. Breakfast Talks are 8:45-9:45 am in Moana Terrace above ‛Ulu Ocean Grill.

sun Jan 6 mon Jan 7

Anthony Geffen Alice Garrett Anthony Geffen has garnered over Alice Garrett currently serves as a 50 international awards, including special assistant for the Pacific Region multiple British Academy Film Awards (Region One) Refuges Program of U.S. (BAFTAs), multiple Emmy Awards and Fish and Wildlife Service. The Pacific the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award for Region contains 67 National Wildlife outstanding contribution to film and Refuges located in Hawai‘i and other television. His work encompasses 11 Pacific Islands, Idaho, Oregon and projects with David Attenborough, Washington, including Midway Atoll including the award-winning Conquest National Wildlife Refuge, which sits of the Skies series. Join Anthony Geffen within Papahānaumokuākea Marine as he shares behind-the-scenes stories National Monument. Join her as she Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai from recent productions and his work talks about Papahānaumokuākea Marine with David Attenborough and the late National Monument and recent and Stephen Hawking. future film productions about these tue Jan 8 wed Jan 9 areas. Harlan Taney Jayson Sime Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Harlan Taney is the founder of 4 Corner Jayson Sime is a motivational speaker, Film Logistics, a company specializing in coach, ultrarunner and yoga teacher. outdoor and adventure film production. Sime is the founder of Right to Shine During production of The Weight of LLC, which provides training and Water, Taney wore multiple hats. He coaching to individuals and teams. He was co-producer; he was a cameraman; recently wrote and published his first he coordinated all logistics for the trip book, Self-Care Hacks: 50 Tips and itself, including river support, the film Tricks to Maximize Your Performance, crew and acquisition and set up of any Well-Being and Happiness. Join Jayson specialized camera equipment required; Sime as he shares words of wisdom and and he was guide and safety for kayaker thoughts on how to run 100 miles. Erik Weihenmayer. Join Harlan Taney as he shares behind-the-scenes stories from this production and discusses current and future projects.

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Anthony Geffen Considered a pioneer in multi-platform In the December 2018 edition, which features Geffen’s storytelling, Geffen is well known for recent work with the late Stephen Hawking, Wired Anthony Geffen, founder and CEO his work on multiple digital platforms, of Atlantic Productions, worked 10 including projects in 3D, interactive Magazine called Atlantic Productions “the pioneering years for the British Broadcasting apps and now immersive experiences. company behind some of the most exciting advancements Under its umbrella, Atlantic Productions Corporation (BBC) before establishing in VR (virtual reality), 3D and AR (augmented reality) Atlantic Productions in 1992. Geffen incorporates a group of companies has garnered over 50 international including Zoo (computer graphics) and storytelling outside of Hollywood.” awards for his work, including three Colossus (3D). British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), Geffen was also responsible for eight Emmy Awards and the Sir Charles setting up Alchemy VR. In the December Wheatstone Award— one of the highest 2018 edition, which features Geffen’s honors in filmmaking—for outstanding recent work with the late Stephen contribution to film and television. Hawking, Wired Magazine called Screened worldwide, Geffen’s Atlantic Productions “the pioneering films comprise a fascinating mix of company behind some of the most documentaries, theatrical films and exciting advancements in VR (virtual IMAX productions. His work encompasses reality), 3D and AR (augmented reality) 11 projects with David Attenborough, storytelling outside of Hollywood.” including the award-winning Great In 2017 Geffen received the first Barrier Reef Series, Conquest of the BAFTA awarded for VR storytelling. Skies and Natural History Museum He speaks regularly at key media and Alive. Geffen also produced the technology forums, including TEDX and highly regarded BBC series Inside the Google Zeitgeist. Geffen is a Fellow of Commons, the landmark BBC/Discovery St Cross College, Oxford. series The Promised Land and the award-winning, theatrical film Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest. Join Anthony Geffen for a special Recent and current productions presentation as Geffen shares a include Judi Dench: My Passion for behind-the-scenes look at immersive Trees, The Coronation—a very special storytelling and his future productions 1 pm Wednesday, Jan 2 in the Fairmont production filmed with the Queen Orchid – Festival Presentation Room. Join Anthony Geffen for discussion Join Anthony Geffen for discussion of England and released during the The Festival Presentation Room is following the showing of the film David following the showing of the film Judi festival period last year, a film about located across the hall from film Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies Dench: My Passion for Trees 3:15 pm the Titanic, a Nova special about the screenings. – Rivals 9:30 am Wednesday, Jan 2 at Saturday, Jan 5 at Four Seasons; for 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano, and Kahilu Theatre; and 11 am Sunday, Jan discussion following the showing of the Deep Planet—a five-part series for 6 at Four Seasons. Join Anthony Geffen film Natural History Museum Alive 9:30 the Discovery Channel which involves for discussion following the showing of am Sunday, Jan 6 at Four Seasons; for the film Attenborough: Behind the Lens discussion following the showing of the dives to the deepest points of every Join Anthony Geffen for a Breakfast Talk Wednesday, Jan 2 at Mauna Kea 11:15 am Wednesday, Jan 2 at Fairmont film David Attenborough’s Conquest of ocean. Geffen was also involved in an and Sunday, Jan 6 at Four Seasons. Orchid; and 1:30 pm Saturday, Jan 5 at the Skies – First to Fly noon Saturday, immersive project about Black Holes; Four Seasons. Also join Anthony Geffen Jan 5 at Four Seasons; and David creating a virtual tour of the universe for an introduction to the film The Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies with Hawking as the guide. Coronation 6:15 pm Thursday, Jan 3 at – Triumph 12:30 pm Sunday, Jan 6 at Atlantic Productions is one of the Fairmont Orchid; and 6 pm Saturday, Four Seasons. most highly regarded, high-end, factual Jan 5 at Four Seasons. production companies in the world.

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Prior to RMI, Kortenhorst was the founding CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF), the largest philanthropic organization dedicated to policy development and advocacy on climate change in Europe. Before launching ECF, he served as a member of the Dutch parliament for the Christian Democratic Party.

Jules Kortenhorst Prior to RMI, Kortenhorst was the founding CEO of the European Jules Kortenhorst is the Chief Executive Climate Foundation (ECF), the largest Officer of Rocky Mountain Institute. philanthropic organization dedicated The RMI Innovation Center is a 15,000 square-foot office building. It produces He is a recognized leader on global to policy development and advocacy more energy than it uses on an annual basis plus enough to power six electric vehicles. energy issues and climate change. His on climate change in Europe. Before background spans business, government, launching ECF, he served as a member of entrepreneurial and nonprofit the Dutch parliament for the Christian Kortenhorst currently serves on the leadership. Democratic Party. Energy Transition Commission, on the Please join Jules Kortenhorst for a Since 1982, Rocky Mountain Institute During the first 20 years of his career, World Economic Forum Future Council presentation titled The Accelerating Energy Transition: the Market Transition (RMI) has advanced market-based Kortenhorst worked in the business on Energy and on the board of Stedin to a Clean and Prosperous Low Carbon solutions that transform global energy world. He was the CEO for International Holding NV. Jules is married to Searl Energy Future 2:45 pm Wednesday, use to create a clean, prosperous Operations of ClientLogic Corporation, Vetter and has four children. Jan 2 in the Fairmont Orchid - Festival and secure future. An independent, a global leader in outsourced customer Kortenhorst holds a Masters of Presentation Room; and 1:45 pm nonprofit think-and-do tank, RMI relationship management (CRM) Business Administration from Harvard Sunday, Jan 6 at Four Seasons. engages with businesses, communities solutions. He worked for almost 10 years Business School and is a Baker Scholar and institutions to accelerate and scale for Royal Dutch/Shell, among others, with a Masters in Economics, from replicable solutions that drive the as managing director of Shell Bulgaria, Erasmus University of the Netherlands. cost-effective shift from fossil fuels to and he began his career as an analyst at Join Jules Kortenhorst for a Breakfast efficiency and renewables. McKinsey & Co. Talk Friday, Jan 4 at Mauna Kea.

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and occupants. But retrofits are not We are working with Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) — happening at the rate or scale needed. Today, portfolio property owners own leading U.S. commercial Excerpts reprinted with permission from rmi.org Buildings most commercial buildings. Yet most building portfolio owners, building efficiency work is focused real estate investors and Initiative: Pathways to Zero What We Are Doing on single buildings, which has very We are driving early movers in the Net-Zero Carbon Buildings, different needs than traditional financial institutions, buildings industry on a path to—or Districts and Portfolios owner-occupiers. The diverse nature building managers, and beyond—net zero energy by working We’re overcoming design and of commercial buildings, combined energy conservation- with individual buildings, districts, business-model barriers to NZE in with technology and performance cities and portfolios to significantly individual buildings and districts uncertainty, make simple energy measure providers and reduce energy use, and powering through leading-edge demonstration optimization initiatives—which could installers interested in them with renewable energy projects and industry convenings. greatly reduce energy use and improve capturing new sources sources cost-effectively while also NZE Leasing building value—financially unattractive, supporting dynamic grid interface. We’re pioneering new lease resulting in slow adoption rates. The of value and positioning We’re doing this by helping owners structures to make NZE profitable for industry demands a better solution. commercial real estate “lead by example,” with pioneering both landlord and tenants alike. Who’s Involved? demonstration projects that show net portfolios for the Grid-Integrated, Energy-Efficient We are working with leading U.S. zero can be achieved profitably and Buildings (GEBs) commercial building portfolio owners, future by deploying this uncover new sources of value. We’re designing the integration of real estate investors and financial innovative retrofit model. Why It Matters energy efficiency, renewable energy institutions, building managers, and If we are going to make meaningful and energy storage, enabled by smart energy conservation-measure providers can capture roughly $144 billion by progress toward global climate targets, controls and microgrids that provide and installers interested in capturing improving the performance of single- we need to fix our buildings. They are profit to building owners while new sources of value and positioning family homes, while also helping the the largest end-users of energy, and supporting a clean energy system. commercial real estate portfolios for planet and millions of families. given the average 30-year lifespan, Zero-Carbon Policies the future by deploying this innovative Who’s Involved? can be part of the problem or our We’re advising cities, regions and retrofit model. climate solution for years to come. states to institute innovative policies We are working with partners in the While demand for net zero energy and codes encouraging the building Initiative: Residential Energy real estate, finance, design, technology (NZE) buildings has grown 700 percent sector to implement carbon-free RMI is providing customer-focused and marketing industries to drive between 2012 and 2016, NZE buildings solutions. solutions that empower and motivate residential energy upgrades. still represent a mere fraction of our U.S. homeowners to invest in What We Are Doing building stock. Plus, many of these Initiative: Portfolio trustworthy, home energy performance City Support projects are new construction, not Energy Optimization improvements at a rate and scale Providing support and expertise retrofits. We need to bridge the gap RMI’s Portfolio Energy Optimization needed to combat climate change. to U.S. cities looking to drive today between the promise that NZE initiative is capturing a $290 billion By driving market-ready offerings meaningful carbon reductions in the holds for commercial buildings and opportunity in net present value by that customers want, we can better residential sector. districts and actual market adoption. bringing building efficiency into the deliver greater health, comfort, cost REALIZE Who’s Involved? age of the portfolio owner with an savings and property value to American Catalyzing the development of a We’re working with leading private innovative, hands-on, approach. families. speedy and scalable process for zero- and government sector partners where Why It Matters Why It Matters carbon residential energy retrofits. we see the greatest opportunity to Commercial buildings consume The residential energy efficiency Finance the Future increase the speed and scale of net- more than 35 percent of the market provides one of the greatest Increasing the availability of capital zero energy buildings and districts. We generated electricity in the U.S. and opportunities to reduce greenhouse for home energy improvements and work with large portfolio owners and are underperforming at every level. gas emissions, lower energy bills and transparency of energy performance managers, district-scale developers and They waste energy, emit too much improve home values. The market in the home purchase process. leading federal agencies. carbon and are too costly for owners

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Union; Duke University; the Universities of Alberta, Missouri and Colorado; The Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) Nikon; the American Alpine Club; the International League of Conservation In 2005, James Balog traveled to Iceland to photograph glaciers for The New Yorker. Photographers; the HIPA award under the This led to a 2006 National Geographic assignment to document changing glaciers in patronage of the Crown Prince of Dubai; various parts of the world. While shooting that story, which became the June 2007 and the Royal Photographic Society of cover story titled The Big Thaw, Balog, who in addition to being a photographer is a Great Britain. mountaineer with a graduate degree in geomorphology, recognized that extraordinary James Balog has given multimedia amounts of ice were vanishing with shocking speed. He noticed features, that took James Balog presentations about EIS at TED and centuries to develop, were collapsing and vanishing in just a few years—or even weeks. dozens of institutions, including the In response to what he saw, Balog founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) in 2007. Guided by the recommendations of glaciologists, the EIS team installed time-lapse James Balog (“BAY-log”) is founder and White House, the U.S. Congress, NASA, cameras at sites that represent regional conditions and have high scientific value, director of the Earth Vision Institute the Environmental Protection Agency, anchoring these cameras on cliff faces above the glaciers and custom-fitting them to and Extreme Ice Survey. For almost 40 Apple, Qualcomm, Cornell University withstand arctic conditions. years, his photography has broken new and Duke University. Balog was also a EIS maintains an extensive portfolio of over one million, single-frame photos conceptual and artistic ground on one keynote speaker at an environmental detailing the art and architecture of ice, with 27 Nikon cameras watching over glaciers of the most important issues of our era: philosophy conference in Istanbul in Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Austria and the Rocky Mountains. The human modification of nature. sponsored by the Ecumenical Patriarch cameras record changes in the glaciers every hour, year-round during daylight, and Balog is the author of eight books. His of the 300-million-member Orthodox yield approximately 8,000 frames per camera per year. These images are combined images have been collected in dozens of Church. into time-lapse videos that reveal how quickly climate change is transforming public and private art collections—and The most recent of Balog’s eight large regions of the planet and provide scientists with basic and vitally important extensively published in magazines, books is ICE: Portraits of Vanishing information on the mechanics of glacial melting. including National Geographic, Life, Glaciers. Among his other titles are and Vanity Fair; National Geographic Tree: A New Vision of the American featured the Extreme Ice Survey in 2007, Forest and Survivors: A New Vision of 2010 and 2013. Endangered Wildlife. His work can be To document the rapid glacial retreat found in dozens of public and private underway, Balog founded the Extreme art collections, including the Museum of Ice Survey (EIS) in 2007. The project was Fine Arts Houston, the Corcoran Gallery, featured in the 2009 PBS/NOVA special the Peabody Essex Museum, the Denver Extreme Ice and the internationally Art Museum and the Gilman Paper acclaimed documentary Chasing Ice. Company. Chasing Ice won an Emmy in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Please join James Balog for discussion It has been screened at the White following the showing of the film The House, U.S. Congress, Great Britain’s Human Element 7:45 pm Tuesday, Jan 1 House of Commons, the United Nations, at HPA Gates; and 2:30 pm Wednesday, and major international science and Jan 2 at Parker Theatre. Also join policy conferences, including COP-15 in James Balog for discussion following Copenhagen and COP-21 in Paris. NBC, the showing of the film Chasing Ice 6 pm Tuesday, Jan 1 at Kahilu Theatre. ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS and NPR have all done features on his work, as have David Photo ©James Balog Letterman, Bill Maher and Bill Moyers. Many organizations have given Balog Join James Balog for a slide presentation and update on EIS, sharing images captured since their highest awards and accolades: the completion of the film Chasing Ice, 3:30 pm Thursday, Jan 3 in the Fairmont Orchid - Festival Presentation Room; and 2:30 pm Tuesday, Jan 8 at Four Seasons. Heinz Foundation; American Geophysical

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Based out of Flagstaff, Arizona, Harlan Taney is the founder of 4 Corner Film Logistics, a company specializing in outdoor and adventure film production. With clients including National Geographic, BBC, Discovery Channel and others, 4 Corner Film Logistics provides innovative filming solutions and logistics for film production in challenging, remote and difficult-to-access regions, and harsh climate conditions. As a professional kayaker and adventure sports athlete, Taney developed a reputation for dependability in the extreme sports environment with a resume that includes putting up ski mountaineering lines in Greenland, to executing 12-day, first descents on Class V rivers not Harlan Taney in action. Photo credit: René Collins previously run. For the last 18 years, Harlan Taney Taney spent summers as a Grand Canyon mining on the rim and the Grand Erik Weihenmayer rolls in Lava Falls with Harlan Taney just behind. Photo credit: James Q Martin river guide, leading over 160 trips down Escalade Development Project, in which the Colorado River. the Navajo Nation looks to develop Recently, Taney helped director a tram into the heart of the Grand Michael Brown and athlete Erik Canyon. Taney recently helped in the Weihenmayer realize the production of production of a National Geographic the film, The Weight of Water, working film, Divided Confluence, to share what as one of the producers, cameramen is at stake. and guide. Prior to filming, Taney organized the logistics for the trip Please join Harlan Taney for discussion through the Grand Canyon, including following the showing of The Weight of arrangements for river support, the film Water 2 pm Wednesday, Jan 2 at Kahilu crew and specialized filming equipment. Theatre; 12:45 pm Thursday, Jan 3 While filming, Taney also became at Fairmont Orchid; and 12:30 pm Erik’s eyes and guide as they navigated Tuesday, Jan 8 at Four Seasons. downstream, kayaking just off Erik’s stern through each rapid. In addition to his projects in film production, Taney also works to Join Harlan Taney for a Breakfast Talk protect the Grand Canyon for future Thursday, Jan 3 at Anna Ranch; and generations. Current issues he is Tuesday, Jan 8 at Four Seasons. involved with include proposed uranium

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mortality in U.S. waters. She is currently Drew Harvell, Ph.D. a senior scientist at The Kohala Center in Hawai‘i and Fellow of the Ecological Dr. Drew Harvell, Ph.D., is a professor Society of America. of ecology and evolutionary biology at Curator of the Blaschka Marine Cornell University, where she teaches Invertebrates Collection at Cornell, Dr. courses in marine ecology, marine Harvell authored the book, A Sea of Glass: invertebrate biodiversity and conservation Searching for the Blaschka’s Fragile oceanography. She is a past director for Legacy in an Ocean at Risk. Released environment at the Atkinson Center for a in the spring of 2016, A Sea of Glass Sustainable Future and a current faculty was featured and reviewed by Discover, fellow. Scientific American, The Guardian, The Dr. Harvell has authored over 120 New York Times and Nature, with full research papers and is widely recognized chapters excerpted in Natural History and for work on health of marine ecosystems, American Scientist, and was picked as chairing both the World Bank Targeted one of the best eight “Art Meets Science” Research Program on Coral Health books of 2016 by the Smithsonian. and the National Center for Ecological Harvell’s new title, Ocean Outbreak, Analysis and Synthesis program on the is scheduled for release in April, 2019. Ecology of Marine Disease. She currently As Harvell notes, “A healthy ocean is a Anna Segal climbing Aigulle D’Argentiere Chamonix while filming Finding the Line, directed by Bjarne Salén. Photo ©Bjarne Salén leads a group of scientists in a National lifeline for humanity, but the ocean’s Science Foundation (NSF)-funded study health is at risk as epidemics devastate investigating how a changing climate both habitat-forming species, like might increase outbreaks of infectious Bjarne Salén seagrasses and corals, and keystone disease in the ocean. species, like starfish and salmon.” The Publications by Dr. Harvell have An accomplished skier, climber book explores the impact from a perfect appeared in Science, Nature, Proceedings and kayaker, Bjarne Salén founded storm of outbreak conditions caused of National Academy of Sciences, Ecology, Endlessflow Films in 2010 while working by human activity, as infections cause Public Library of Science, Biology and in Chamonix, France. Endlessflow massive die-offs in the ocean with Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Films specializes in providing footage sweeping ecological impacts, including Dr. Harvell has received support from in the mountains, in difficult terrain loss of food harvest and impacts to our the NSF, the Global Environmental Fund, that might otherwise be challenging to own health as a warming ocean provides National Geographic, NOAA and the access, and in expedition environments, an incubator for pathogens. Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future. garnering a reputation for quality Dr. Harvell’s laboratory research production in adventure films and focuses on the ecology of infectious Please join Drew photography. disease and ocean sustainability. A Harvell, Ph.D., for a Bjarne Salén worked as subtheme of this work includes evaluating presentation titled cinematographer on a former festival Please join Bjarne Salén for discussion the impacts of a warming climate on Ocean Outbreak: favorite, the award-winning film following the showing of World’s Confronting a Rising Highest Marathon and Eclipse 9:30 am coral reef ecosystems. Projects in her Eclipse, which returns this year to Tide of Marine Disease Wednesday, Jan 2 at Fairmont Orchid; lab involve multi-disciplinary, cross-scale allow attendees to hear behind-the- 9:30 am Thursday, Jan 3 at Kahilu 1:30 pm Tuesday, Jan 1 scenes stories from Salén himself. Salén approaches, including field studies, in the Fairmont Orchid Theatre; and 12:30 pm at HPA Gates. recently worked with Olympian and X remote sensing, genetics, chemical - Festival Presentation Games Slopestyle champion Anna Segal analyses and mathematical modeling. Room. The Festival Join Bjarne Salén for discussion One recent project focuses on detection Presentation Room is and her Freeride World Tour, plus big following a TBA showing of Finding the of a virus and environmental conditions located across the hall mountain skiing sister, Nat Segal, on the Line 8 pm Wednesday, Jan 2 at Parker causing widespread sea star mass from film screenings. film Finding the Line. Theatre.

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Baribault was involved with the Volcano’s 2018 Paul Baribault production and release of Earth, Oceans Rick Hazlett, Ph.D. Lower East Rift (executive produced by Jake Eberts), Zone eruption Paul Baribault is a vice president at Dr. Richard Hazlett is an associate African Cats, Chimpanzee, Bears, that began Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. researcher for the U.S. Geological Monkey Kingdom and Born in China; May 3, 2018. He leads Studio Marketing Operations Survey (USGS) at Hawaiian Volcano seven of the top eight most successful, These scientists and Strategy for Pixar Observatory (HVO) and an affiliate feature-length nature films. assisted current Animation Studios and faculty member in the Department Born in China marked one HVO and Disney Animation Studios of Geology, University of Hawai‘i at of the first co-productions National Park films. Baribault also Hilo. He is also a professor emeritus in China and became the Service (NPS) leads the Disneynature from Pomona College, where he most successful nature film staff in monitoring and understanding film label as the Brand, helped establish and coordinate the ever produced in China. the eruption. The HVO monitors the Creative, Marketing Environmental Analysis Program. Baribault assembled a active volcanoes in Hawai‘i, assesses and Production Lead. Hazlett’s research in volcanology has diverse creative team for their hazards, issues warnings and Baribault has overseen taken him to various and remote regions the project: a premier advances scientific understanding to the release of a range in the world: Central America, southern Chinese national director reduce impacts of volcanic eruptions. of films in this role, based in Beijing; a leading Italy, the Western Cascades, the including Incredibles 2, nature-filmmaking unit, American Southwest and the Aleutian Finding Dory, Frozen, Coco, Moana, Please join Rick Hazlett, Ph.D., for a based in Bristol, UK; and an academy Islands of Alaska. He has authored Inside Out, Zootopia, Monsters presentation titled Lava and Steam: award-winning producer based in several publications, including Roadside University, The Muppets, Earth, Oceans, The Great 2018 Eruption of Kīlauea, Burbank, bringing the story of China’s Geology of Hawaii, Explore the Geology African Cats, Chimpanzees, Bears, as he discusses the mechanics of the natural world to life. of Kīlauea Volcano and Volcanoes: A Monkey Kingdom and Born in China. Global Perspective. recent eruption and shares stories Baribault serves on a number of board behind-the-scenes 4:15 pm Sunday, Baribault’s responsibilities encompass Hazlett formed part of the team capacity positions including as executive Jan 6 at Four Seasons. strategic campaign planning, marketing chair of The Aspen Institute High Seas of USGS volcanologists called in from operations, and the coordination of Initiative, vice chair of the Board of all over the country after Kīlauea creative development, media planning Directors for The Jane Goodall Institute Photo credit: Richard Hazlett, U.S.Geological Survey and placement, digital media, social and director on the Board of Directors media, synergy, publicity, promotions, for the United States Luge Association. research, finance and events. Over the Baribault graduated with a Bachelor past eight years, a number of these of Arts from Stanford University and a campaigns have broken animation box Masters of Business Administration from office records, from the highest opening the University of Southern California, weekend to the highest worldwide gross Marshall School of Business. of all time. Baribault is also accountable for all aspects of the Disneynature theatrical division, a wildlife-focused, Please join Paul Baribault for a special inspirational brand that produces and advanced screening of Dolphin Reef releases feature films, as well as related 10:45 am Thursday, Jan 3 at Fairmont wildlife content and experiences. As Orchid; and 9:30 am Friday, Jan 4 at Kahilu Theatre. executive in charge, he is responsible for feature production, finance, brand growth and development, educational

content, consumer and retail strategy, Join Paul Baribault for a Breakfast Talk and all marketing. Having grown the Thursday, Jan 3 at Mauna Kea. Disneynature label from scratch,

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Rush Sturges

Rush Sturges is an award-winning filmmaker whose commercial clients include National Geographic, Red Bull, GoPro, Toyota and the Mexican Board of Tourism. His production company, River Roots, has released eight kayaking films, including Chasing Niagara. In addition to his filmmaking career, Sturges is considered among the top L: Rush Sturges doing a front flip over Spirit Falls, WA. Photo credit: Austin Jackson. R: Rush Sturges drops down a 90- foot waterfall in Chiapas, Mexico. Photo credit: Marcos Ferro freestyle kayakers in the world. Sturges won the Junior World Championship in 2003 and has since represented the Rio Santo Domingo in Chiapas, Mexico; Sturges films, edits, produces and United States at the Freestyle World the steepest navigable section of performs in his films. Championships on two occasions and whitewater on earth, as documented in been a four-time member of the USA the film Chasing Niagara. Team. Sturges is credited with having Please join Rush Sturges for discussion In 2011, Sturges was a part of an invented several freestyle moves. One following the showing of Chasing expedition team that completed a involves doing a complete front flip Niagara 6 pm Wednesday, Jan 2 at first descent of the Inga Rapids of the over a waterfall and is considered to be Fairmont Orchid; 10:45 am Thursday, Congo River, considered the largest one of the most cutting-edge moves in Jan 3 at HPA Gates; 6:45 pm Thursday, whitewater rapids on the planet. No freestyle kayaking. Sturges was named Jan 3 at Parker School; and 6 pm prior attempt had been successful and an Outdoor Idol by the Outdoor Industry Sunday, Jan 6 at Four Seasons. the feat was documented in the film Foundation and was chosen one of the The Grand Inga Project. Sturges also 20 greatest outdoor athletes by Outside Rush Sturges running “Dome Drop” on the Rio Santo completed a record descent down the Domingo in Mexico. Photo credit: Matt Baker Magazine.

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yoga instructor. Jayson Sime Since that time, Sime has taught yoga around the world and studied Jayson Sime is a motivational speaker, the self-care techniques employed coach, ultrarunner and by other cultures. After yoga teacher. Sime is returning to Colorado the founder of Right to in 2013, he committed Shine LLC, which provides himself to helping people training and coaching to and organizations achieve individuals and teams. better health and wellness. He recently wrote and Sime’s inspirational story published his first book, and bid to run 100 miles Self-Care Hacks: 50 Tips with a friend was recently and Tricks to Maximize told in the short film, How Your Performance, Well- to Run 100 Miles. Being and Happiness. Pro at Mt. Buller, Australia. Prior to launching Right Tony Harrington As both big wave surfer and former to Shine, Sime spent 16 years working in Please join Jayson Sime for discussion competitive surfer, plus big-mountain Tony Harrington has been capturing politics. He served as the state director and book signing following the showing skier, Harrington has been able to bring of the film How to Run 100 Miles 10 images of the extremes of snow and surf for America Votes in both Colorado and his experience as an athlete in these am Tuesday, Jan 1 at Fairmont Orchid; around the globe for 30 years. Featured Nevada, building the infrastructure for extreme environments—whether carving 11:45 am Tuesday, Jan 1 at Kahilu in media around the globe, his work has the first “early window” caucus in the first descents in Alaska and Greenland Theatre; and 11:15 am Wednesday, Jan appeared on over 150 magazine covers history of the state of Nevada. In the or searching for 50-foot waves— to his 2 at HPA Gates. and won numerous awards. midst of this campaign, Sime went to photography work and, later, to film. his first yoga class and discovered a new Harrington also creates and produces way to manage the stress of working major adventure projects and events Join Jayson Sime for a Breakfast Talk working with Red Bull, Teton Gravity Please join Tony Harrington for in politics. He lost 75 pounds, stopped Friday, Jan 4 at Anna Ranch. taking antidepressants and became a Research and on TV networks including discussion following the showing of the Discovery Channel, NBC, Channel Emocean 8 pm Tuesday, Jan 1 at Parker 10, ONE HD, FUEL TV and others across Theatre; and 12:45 pm Thursday, Jan 3 in the Fairmont Orchid – Festival Japan and Asia. Presentation Room. Join Tony Harrington founded the World Harrington for discussion following a Heli Challenge backcountry freeride TBA showing of The Snow Collective 6 competition, held in the Southern Alps pm Tuesday, Jan 1 at Parker Theatre; of New Zealand, which he ran for 20 and 10 am Thursday, Jan 3 in the years until 2015. Freeriding—also known Fairmont Orchid - Festival Presentation as big-mountain, freestyle or extreme— Room. involves skiing or snowboarding on natural, ungroomed terrain without a set course, goals or rules. The Please join Tony Harrington for a slide competition drew top skiers and show presentation as Harrington shares snowboarders from around the globe. behind-the-scenes stories behind some Harrington has also published a of his best-known images and magazine cover shots 11:15 am Thursday, Jan ski magazine, operated ski resort 3 in the Fairmont Orchid – Festival and underwater photo services, and Presentation Room. The Festival developed unique snow events including Presentation Room is located across the Wanaka Big Air, Buller X extreme the hall from film screenings. freeride competition and Junior Urban

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Andy Collins and Mokupāpapa Discovery Center

Andy Collins has worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries since 2001. In this capacity, Collins currently manages the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center for Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and World Heritage Site. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are Mokupāpapa Discovery Center in Hilo. Photo credit: NOAA encompassed by Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and World Heritage Site, and Collins has led Collins received his dual bachelor’s several expeditions and programs to degree in forestry and ecology from this region. Collins works on developing SUNY College of Environmental Science educational and outreach material to and Forestry in Syracuse NY. share information and stories about, and contained within, these islands. Aquarium at the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center. Photo credit: NOAA During his tenure at NOAA, Collins Please join Andy Collins for a has been deeply involved in work to presentation titled Twenty Years expand the protection and international of Expanding Protections for the The Mokupāpapa in both Hawaiian and English. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands noon Discovery Center recognition for the remote islands and beauty of the historic Koehnen building Tuesday, Jan 1 in the Fairmont Orchid The Mokupāpapa Discovery Center reefs of the Hawaiian Archipelago, has been preserved and refreshed to - Festival Presentation Room. The (MDC) was established in 2003 to including three expansions in size of show off its majesty, including a koa Festival Presentation Room is located interpret the natural science, culture the protected area, the World Heritage wood staircase, Hawaiian hardwood across the hall from film screenings. and history of the Northwestern designation and numerous campaigns to floors, and high ceilings. Hawaiian Islands and surrounding raise awareness of this unique place. The nature and culture of the marine environment. As most people Northwestern Hawaiian Islands comes will never have the opportunity to alive in this facility, transporting visitors visit these remote islands, the facility, to this remote ocean wilderness where The Mokupāpapa Discovery Center (MDC) was established located in Hilo on Hawai‘i Island, serves predators rule the reefs; the skies teem to “bring the place to the people” and with swooping, screeching seabirds;, in 2003 to interpret the natural science, culture and spur greater public awareness of the and the Native Hawaiian chanting of the history of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and region and ocean conservation issues. Kumulipo (a Hawaiian creation chant) surrounding marine environment. As most people will Housed in Hilo’s historic, century-old sets the mood for exploration and Koehnen Building, Mokupāpapa features learning. never have the opportunity to visit these remote islands, a 3,500-gallon saltwater aquarium, the facility, located in Hilo on Hawai‘i Island, serves to interactive educational exhibits, life- size models of wildlife found in the The center is open 9 am-4 pm Tuesday “bring the place to the people” and spur greater public Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, artwork through Saturday for normal operating awareness of the region and ocean conservation issues. inspired by those islands and Hawaiian hours. culture, plus many interpretive panels

62 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org Festival Program 2019 63 Alice Garrett The Pacific Region Chad Wiggins contains 67 National Alice Garrett currently serves as a Wildlife Refuges located in A marine biologist by training, Chad special assistant for the Pacific Region Wiggins serves as director of The Nature (Region One) Refuges Program of U.S. Hawai‘i and other Pacific Conservancy’s Hawai‘i Island Marine more than 200 cubic yards of invasive Fish and Wildlife Service. The Pacific Islands, Idaho, Oregon Program. In this capacity, Wiggins works vegetation and rebuilt 560 feet of Region contains 67 National Wildlife and Washington, including to develop and implement strategies traditional rock walls. Through their Refuges located in Hawai‘i and other that combine science and traditional efforts, the team has engaged over 4,000 Pacific Islands, Idaho, Oregon and Midway Atoll National knowledge to maintain and improve West volunteers and more than doubled mullet Washington, including Midway Atoll Wildlife Refuge, which sits Hawai‘i’s coastlines and coral reefs. populations. As director, Wiggins leads efforts National Wildlife Refuge, which sits within Papahānaumokuākea Wiggins also helped establish the within Papahānaumokuākea Marine that help inform collaborative ocean South Kohala Coastal Partnership, which National Monument. Marine National Monument. management decisions, such as conducted a coastline use survey to Midway Atoll is one the oldest atoll measuring the reef recovery from assess compliance with existing fishing formations in the world. The Hawaiian unprecedented coral bleaching across rules, reduced sediment delivered to 40 miles of West Hawai‘i coastline; place name for Midway is Pihemanu, most recently she has focused primarily coastal areas and removed invasive modeling the effect of sea level rise which means loud din of birds. It on producing regional and national species from coral reefs. He volunteers on coastal habitats and fishponds; provides nesting habitat for millions film projects starting with films in as a scientific member of the West evaluating the benefits of current of seabirds and is a touchstone for one honor of the Midway 75th Anniversary Hawai‘i Fishery Council, which in watershed protection efforts and of the most significant naval battles in Commemoration Event. The U.S. Fish and collaboration with agencies, universities integrating traditional knowledge with our human history. Nearly three million Wildlife Service co-hosted a livestream and local communities, has prohibited science for effective restoration. birds nest much of each year at Midway event with the U.S. Navy at Midway Atoll spearfishing while using SCUBA As part of his role, Wiggins helps Atoll including the world’s largest along with six satellite locations around equipment and established protections to translate scientific data for population of albatrosses, Bonin petrels the country. Garrett also collaborated for sharks. communities—he has worked with the and endangered Laysan ducks. Hawaiian with Tandem Stills & Motion Director Ka‘upulehu community for the last 10 monk seals, green sea turtles and spinner Ian Shive on the production of a suite of years to help people understand changes Please join Chad Wiggins for discussion dolphins frequent Midway’s crystal blue still images and film products including lagoon encircled by coral. in fish abundance and coral health. following the showing of Lost Land Midway: Edge of Tomorrow, in addition of the Volcano – Episode One 10 am Garrett has worked for the U.S. Fish In 2016, the community requested, to several projects underway. Tuesday, Jan 1 at Parker Theatre; and 4 and the state approved, a 10-year and Wildlife Service for nine years; Garrett holds a bachelor’s degree in pm Thursday, Jan 3 at HPA Gates. Join marine reserve, or rest area, along biology and a juris doctorate, with a Chad Wiggins following the showing of a 3.6-mile stretch of coastline, and specialization in environmental law and Lost Land of the Volcano – Episode Two early results demonstrate this area is policy. 11:30 am Wednesday, Jan 2 at Parker working. Wiggins continues to work with Theatre; and 11:30 am Friday, Jan 4 the community to develop a fishery at HPA Gates. Also join Chad Wiggins Please join Alice Garrett for discussion management plan that would maintain a following the showing of Lost Land of following the showing of Midway: Edge sustainable harvest after the rest period. the Volcano – Episode Three 9:30 am of Tomorrow 3:30 pm Tuesday, Jan 1 at At Kiholo, Wiggins and his team Thursday, Jan 3 at Parker Theatre. HPA Gates; 4 pm Wednesday, Jan 2 at manage 6.5 acres of fishpond estuarine Fairmont Orchid; 11:15 am Thursday, Join Chad Wiggins for discussion habitat donated in 2013 to The Nature Jan 3 at Kahilu Theatre; and 9:45 am following the showing of Ireland’s Deep Conservancy by Angus Mitchell. In Monday, Jan 7 at Four Seasons. Atlantic: Leviathan 2:30 pm Tuesday, partnership with local, non-profit Hui Jan 1 at Parker Theatre. Also join Chad Aloha Kiholo, the Hawai‘i State Parks, Wiggins for discussion following the the Ala Kahakai National Historic Join Alice Garrett for a Breakfast Talk showing of Ireland’s Deep Atlantic: The Monday, Jan 7 at Four Seasons. Trail and thousands of volunteers Open Ocean 1 pm Wednesday, Jan 2 at and students, the team has removed Parker Theatre.

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serious about kapa. Naturally, I was her Roen Hufford kokua.” Having learned to beat kapa from After working for the City and County her mother, Hufford has been doing of Honolulu’s Department of Parks so for nearly 15 years, sharing the art and Recreation, and then and practice with those purchasing and operating in the community who their own flower shop, Roen wish to do the same. Hufford and husband Ken Hufford continues to run moved to her family’s 10- the organic farm, along acre homestead and flower with husband Ken. Their farm in Waimea. There, delicious produce and they built a home, started flowers can be found at the to grow organic vegetables Waimea Midweek Farmer’s and became part of a group Market at Pukalani Stables of people to start the first on Wednesdays and the Images from the film Ka Hana Kapa farmer’s market in Waimea. Waimea Homestead Farmer’s Market by With a keen interest in growing the Thelma Parker Library entrance on their own food, coupled with years of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl Saturday mornings. Wauke is also grown experience in the florist industry, the on the farm for the making of kapa. Huffords were able to carve a life for Hufford attended Pratt Institute in Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl is a Honolulu written scripts for numerous living themselves in Waimea. Roen’s mother, Brooklyn, New York, and received a playwright and author. Her many plays history and humanities performance esteemed lei maker and author Marie Bachelors in Fine Art from the University have been performed in Hawai‘i, the programs at historic sites and for McDonald, was an art educator for of Hawai‘i in 1973. At her mother’s continental United States and have community organizations. most of her life and is also renowned urging, encouragement and insistence, toured Britain, Asia and the Pacific. An Kneubuhl holds a master’s degree in for bringing back the lost art of kapa Hufford continues to grow flowers, anthology of some of her work, Hawai‘i drama and theatre from the University making. Hufford writes that her mother make leis and beat kapa. Nei: Island Plays, is available from the of Hawai‘i. She is the recipient of “has been my mentor and guide for University of Hawai‘i Press, along with the Elliot Cades Award for Literature many of my life endeavors. I am one her three mystery novels: Murder Casts and the prestigious Hawai‘i Award for of her best students. Whatever she Please join Roen Hufford for a kapa a Shadow, Murder Leaves its Mark, and Literature, the highest literary honor in was interested in, I learned to do too. making demonstration 5:15-6:15 pm Murder Frames the Scene, set in the the state. Her kapa work started when I was a following the showing of the film Ka 1930s in Hawai‘i. Hana Kapa 4 pm Thursday, Jan 3 at child. It was only after her retirement Kneubuhl is currently the researcher, Kahilu Theatre. Please join Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl from teaching that she was able to get writer and co-producer for the popular for discussion following the showing of local series Biography Hawai‘i on PBS Ka Hana Kapa 4pm Thursday, Jan 3 at Hawai‘i. She has also written other Kahilu Theatre. documentaries that feature local history and historic sites. The playwright has

Kapa made by Marie MacDonald. Photo © Joshua McCullough, PhytoPhoto

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The Voyager Exhibit Marine National Monument, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. For the past three years, The Voyager The Voyager Exhibit forms the Exhibit focused on the worldwide basis for talks and discussions around voyage of Hōkūle‘a, specially printing voyaging during the festival. It is an one-of-a-kind exhibits interactive tool and each year, showcasing basis for the discussion the voyage from and educational the year prior. The programs taking place display featured the during the festival as work of the ‘Ōiwi well as in subsequent TV photographers school visits. Films on board, to share and programs weave a sense and feel together with the for life during the exhibit, as does the voyage. This year, exhibit with the films and programs in the the exhibit focuses Acacia koa. Photo © Joshua McCullough, PhytoPhoto on the upcoming festival. voyage of Makali‘i, the In 2019, the exhibit voyaging canoe run and talks focus the objective stemming from the Nā medicinal). Canoe plants also refer to on three aspects Kālai Wa‘a Hoea Moku Canoe Garden plants native to Hawai‘i used in the by the organization Kalo. Artwork by Caren Loebel-Fried. Nā Kālai Wa‘a, as the of the upcoming Project to supply and provision the building and lashing of canoes. culmination of its voyage of Makali‘i: wa‘a (canoe) sustainably from plants In conjunction with the Hoea Moku current voyaging project, Honauna Ola. Papahānaumokuākea Marine National and material grown and harvested on Project, and in collaboration with The voyage will travel to and through Monument and the proposed sail plan the island; and crew training, which school gardens, part of the goal for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, for the voyage to the Northwestern includes developing an understanding of the upcoming voyage is to supply and which lie within Papahānaumokuākea Hawaiian Islands; canoe plants and non-instrument weather forecasting and provision Makali‘i entirely with food navigation. and material grown and harvested on As the backdrop to the journey, the island, relying on traditional canoe Mokumanamana, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Photo credit: Brad Wong the exhibit explores the creation and plants as the basis for the voyage. expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Finally, the exhibit explores an Marine National Monument, now a understanding of non-instrument UNESCO World Heritage Site. The weather forecasting and navigation, exhibit and associated talks share central to the successful completion the proposed sail plan through the of this or any canoe voyage, along Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the with other elements of crew training. many considerations that went into A Star Compass will be on display and planning the route for the voyage. attendees will have the opportunity to The exhibit also provides background learn about its use. information about canoe plants, central to the Nā Kālai Wa‘a Hoea Moku Canoe Garden Project, and the related goals The exhibit opens with a ceremony 4 pm Jan 1 and will remain on display at for the voyage. Canoe plants include Kahilu Theatre through Jan 27. those brought by the early Polynesian settlers to the islands for a multitude of uses (canoe building, sustenance and

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Thu, Jan 4: Hoe‘a Moku, Canoe Plants, Kaula (cordage) and Provisioning the Canoe The logistics behind planning and preparation for the journey involve a team of people to plan for the voyage itself, to manage maintenance of the canoe and to ensure the canoe is properly stocked and provisioned. The goal for the upcoming voyage of Makali‘i is to provision the canoe with food grown Wed, Jan 3: Navigation on Hawai‘i Island, in collaboration with and Crew Training island school gardens. It also involves The Star Compass forms the basic providing the kaula (cordage) and other framework for wayfinding. While the material required on the canoe, using the navigator uses a physical Star Compass same canoe plants the early Polynesians as a learning tool in the beginning, the would have relied on for their voyages. navigator will ultimately memorize the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Images this page ©Brad Wong star charts—through years of study—and Join Master (Pwo) Navigator Chadd employ the Star Compass as a mental Paishon and others to learn more about map to categorize the information the Hoe‘a Moku Canoe Garden Project Voyager Exhibit Talks needed for navigation. and the planning and collaboration underway in the provisioning of the Tue, Jan 2: The Voyage canoe. Find out about the contribution The upcoming voyage of Makali‘i through Join Master (Pwo) Navigator Chadd from school gardens and the canoe the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and Paishon to learn about the Star plants used to build, maintain and Compass, the art of non-instrument Papahānaumokuākea Marine National provide cordage for the canoes. Learn weather forecasting; the Honauna Ola Monument, a UNESCO World Heritage how to braid cordage (rope) using program leading up to and culminating material from plants grown on island. Site, will mark the culmination of years in this voyage; and the process overall of planning and effort. The logistics of crew training. behind planning and preparation for the journey involve determining the sail plan for the voyage itself, managing the proper maintenance and preparation of Following Breakfast Talks, The the canoe, crew training and provisioning Voyager Exhibit Talks are 10-11 am in of the canoe for the voyage. front of The Voyager Exhibit at Kahilu Theatre. Join Master (Pwo) Navigator Chadd Paishon, other members of Nā Join Master (Pwo) Navigator Chadd Kālai Wa‘a and the Makali‘i crew to Paishon and others to learn about the learn more about voyaging and the logistics and planning involved with the upcoming voyage of Makali‘i through voyage: the planned route for the voyage, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. the intended destinations along the way, the considerations involved with setting the sail plan— including weather and conditions, and the dry dock preparation in advance of the voyage. Hawaiian monk seal and turtle napping. Photo credit: Mark Sullivan, NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, 2007. Photo collected under NMFS Research Permit #848-1695

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Chadd ‘Onohi Paishon and Makali‘i

Chadd ‘Onohi Paishon is one of the five Hawaiian Master (Pwo) Navigators who were inducted by Master (Pwo) Navigator Mao Piailug, the Micronesian navigator who brought the knowledge of wayfinding back to Hawai‘i. He is also senior captain of Makali‘i and helps to run Nā Kālai Wa‘a, the organization that built and manages the voyaging canoe Makali‘i on the Big Island. In this capacity, he participates in the wa‘a leadership, meeting regularly with the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Photo ©Brad Wong other Pwo captains. Paishon has sailed on Hōkūle‘a Honauna Ola maintains the goal of he wa‘a; we need to care for our since 1984, was a crewmember on the sustaining Hawaiian cultural practices resources when on our wa‘a or on our 1992 voyage of Hōkūle‘a to Tahiti and and sense of well-being through voyaging, moku. The canoe always brings those subsequently, joined Clay and Shorty Pwo Navigator Chadd ‘Onohi Paishon. Photo ©2015 Polynesian which will culminate in the upcoming lessons home.” Bertelmann’s efforts in the construction Voyaging Society. Photo credit: ‘Ōiwi TV Photographer Nā‘ālehu voyage through the Northwestern of the 54-foot voyaging canoe Makali‘i, Anthony Hawaiian Islands. Please join Master (Pwo) Navigator sailing on her maiden voyage in 1995. Paishon reflects, “There is a saying Chadd Paishon as he leads The Voyager Since then, Paishon has continued that was started by Clay Bertelmann— Exhibit Talks 10-11 am Jan 2-4 at to captain Makali‘i, overseeing the the canoe is our island so the island is Hawai‘i and supports canoe construction, Kahilu Theatre. operation of the canoe and helping to our canoe, he wa‘a he moku he moku run the educational programs organized maintenance and sustainability. on Makali‘i by Nā Kālai Wa‘a. Paishon The project offers crew, ohana, and helped to captain Hōkūle‘a on several community opportunity to learn about of the Worldwide Voyage (WWV) legs the use and maintenance of these Honauna Ola Objectives: in 2015, before returning to the Big resources, both at Hoea and also on a Instruct and evaluate 24-to-30 potential canoe crew in the knowledge, Island, where he helps to run the larger scale with the natural forest. practices and advanced skills required in wayfinding (navigating) and voyaging other programs maintained by Nā Kālai Project Holokai provides in order to fill the roles of captain, navigator, watch captain, quartermaster Wa‘a, including Hoea Moku, Project opportunities for Hawai‘i Island students and crew. Holokai and Honauna Ola. Paishon is to experience the canoe and attain an Train 300 support crew in the important knowledge and practices critical joined by his wife and navigator, Pomai understanding of open-ocean voyaging to successful voyage support. Instruct trainees to cultivate plants in canoe Bertelmann, by Pwo Captain Shorty and non-instrumental navigation gardens, prepare food and braid cordage, and learn chants and prayers for Bertelmann and other members of Nā throughout all seasons. A cohort of 30 voyage ceremonies. Measure progress in learning and performance. Kālai Wa‘a in these efforts. students meets throughout the year Demonstrate the knowledge, practice and skills learned through this Hoea Moku is the canoe sustainability with the captains and crew of Makali‘i, period by successfully applying to the upcoming voyage of Makali‘i through project currently housed at Nā Kālai who provide youth with hands-on canoe the Northwest Hawaiian Islands—both on board the canoe, as well as in the Wa‘a’s 10-acre parcel in Hawi. The activities to connect them to the wa‘a support on the ground for the voyage itself. project focuses on canoe plants native to and prepare for a final sail.

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Dino Morrow Dino Morrow is a documentary and portrait photographer who specializes in imagery of indigenous and local cultures. He is known for his stunning images documenting the practice of Dancer from Hālau Hula O Nā Like Ao Puna

hula. Morrow also enjoys portraiture, under the direction of Kumu Kona G arcia lifestyle, events, travel and nature photography. Morrow notes his current focus is to respectfully document Hawaiian and indigenous cultures as an intimate Volcano Art Center Gallery. Photo credit: Jesse Tunison and traditional expression of sense of place, identity, connection, art, values, spirituality and offering. “For Volcano Art Center Exhibit me, the ultimate value of an image is given when the participants accept the Volcano Art Center (VAC) is a nonprofit Center’s Niaulani Campus in Volcano perspective, composition and feeling art and educational organization Village, often instructed by artists Morrow’s work will be on display at to be honorable and authentic. In order founded in 1974, which operates both whose work is on display in the gallery. Volcano Art Center Gallery in a special to achieve this, I rely on a personal a gallery and an educational center. exhibit titled Experiencing Ancient Hula connection with the subject and a keen Through the Photographer’s Lens 9 am- The highly regarded Volcano Art As a special extension of the Volcano sense of a deeper understanding from 5 pm daily Mar 30 through May 5, 2019. Center Gallery, located within Hawai‘i Art Center’s Hula Arts Program, and as their perspective.” Volcanoes National Park, is a fine art part of the Volcano Art Center Festival gallery representing the work of nearly Exhibit, Hālau Na Kipu‘upu‘u, under 200 local artists. The Niaulani Campus the direction of Kumu Hula Micah in Volcano Village serves as Volcano Kamohoali‘i, will share hula 5:15 pm Art Center’s educational campus where Tuesday, Jan 8 in Hoku Amphitheatre at classes, workshops, performances and Four Seasons. events occur. Volcano Art Center also develops and offers the award-winning Nā Mea The Volcano Art Center Festival Exhibit Hawai‘i Hula Kahiko performance series features five artists whose work is represented by Volcano Art Center at the Pā Hula in Hawai‘i Volcanoes Gallery: Michael and Misato Mortara, National Park. Margaret Barnaby, Marian Berger, The Volcano Art Center Gallery is Dietrich Varez and Dino Morrow. located in the historic 1877 Volcano The exhibit will be on display in the House Hotel in Hawai‘i Volcanoes Fairmont Orchid – Festival Exhibit National Park. Sales of art work in the Room 10 am-8 pm Jan 1-3 and 10 am-6 gallery supports gallery artists and pm Jan 4. The Festival Exhibit Room the Volcano community, along with is located across the hall from film the Volcano Art Center’s cultural, showings. arts education, forest restoration and professional artist development programs. Ongoing classes and workshops in the visual arts are taught at Volcano Art Volcano Art Center’s Hula Arts Program. Hālau Na Kipu‘upuu under the direction of Kumu Micah Kamohoali‘i

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Dietrich Varez In 1968, Varez moved to Volcano, plants, such as the ‘ohelo berry, which The late Dietrich Varez remains one built a cabin, and began tending bar at is one of Pele’s favorite offerings. He The Volcano Art Center continues to sell of the best-known artists on Hawai‘i the Volcano House Hotel. The budding- carefully depicted Hawaiians practicing his work through a legacy program and Island, popular for his vibrantly colored, artist would make wood carvings of the the arts, skills and values of old offers printmaking classes weekly in his honor. Visit the calendar of events uniquely stylized paintings, block goddess Pele and stand them on the bar Hawai‘i, along with the stories of other at www.volcanoartcenter.org for more prints and book illustrations that often while he worked. The carvings, cut from myths and legends. information on these special classes. celebrate ancient Hawaiian myths and firewood, sold well enough to encourage Dietrich Varez passed away August legends. He was especially fond of the his career as an artist. His experience 14, 2018 at sundown to a beautiful legends of the Volcano Goddess Pele and carving wood naturally translated to sunset similar to his original paintings. has portrayed her numerous times in his block printing and in 1974 he took prints His spirit will live on through the many works. across the street to the newly opened artworks he created in his lifetime. Varez worked for decades, carefully Volcano Art Center Gallery. When seven hand-carving complex block prints out sold in the first month, his career as a of linoleum. Linoleum, known for its full-time artist was born, along with use in 1950s and ’60s’ vintage flooring, his long-standing relationship with the allowed him to carve his master plates gallery, as one of its earliest artists. with incredible precision, creating lines By nature a quiet man, Varez lived so thin they could have been drawn with with his wife Linda, a noted painter, in a fine-point pen. a remote rainforest setting near Volcano Varez was born in Germany in the Village. Isolated by several miles of midst of World War II. His mother met bad road, he was able to maintain the and married a U.S. army sergeant tranquility he desired for his work and during the U.S. occupation of Germany, the connection to the forest around and she and Dietrich moved with him him. back to Hawai‘i. Varez noted that, Varez had always been fascinated after growing up in war-torn Germany, with the legends of Pele, and they Hawai‘i was his salvation and he was proved rich subjects for his art. Some driven by a desire to give back to the of his favorites were the ones about the place that had given him so much. relationships of Pele with the island’s

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Recognition, multiple plate wood block print. Below: Look Both Ways, multiple plate wood block print. Artwork by Margaret Barnaby L: ‘I‘iwi Up Close, watercolor by Marian Berger. R: Palila Up Close, watercolor by Marian Berger

Margaret Barnaby woodcut prints by drawing and planning Marian Berger and U.S. Representative Daniel Akaka Over her 30-year career as an artist, for several days. It then takes her Known as a naturalist artist, Marian with several of her original watercolors Margaret Barnaby has worked as a two or three days to hand-carve each Berger has received many awards and as tribute to their contributions in jeweler, a sculptor and a painter, as plywood plate. Each plate will print commissions for her art, particularly preserving Hawai‘i’s native wildlife. well as a printmaker. In the one or more colors in the final her paintings of Hawai‘i’s native The daughter of a meteorologist, Honolulu print-makers annual picture. Depending on the number birds. Berger has recieved top honors Berger spent her early childhood on show, her woodblock prints of plates required, carving can for her entries in several Hawai‘i Nei Wake Island and in Alaska where she have been awarded the Jean take up to a month. After making shows and and multiple commissions acquired her father’s love of science Charlot prize, the John Chin several trial copies of the print, including Bishop Museum Natural History and her mother’s artistic bent, along Young award for Outstanding she inks the first plate, puts it calendars and a series of Audubon-style with their mutual love of the outdoors. Relief (2011), and Hobble and the paper through an etching paintings of Hawai‘i’s Living Endemic “I assumed that art was a natural part purchase awards in 2007 and press, and repeats the process to Birds, completed in 2011. Berger’s work of life, a way that everyone expressed 2011, as well as the Hawai‘i make 10 to 15 copies. She goes has been featured in two solo exhibits themselves,” Berger notes. State Foundation on Culture through the inking and printing at the Volcano Art Center Gallery; her Marian Berger earned a Bachelor of and the Arts purchase awards process for each successive color, most recent titled Up Close, which Science in Wildlife Management from in 2008 and 2011. carefully positioning the plate and focused on 10 native Hawaiian forest Humboldt State University, where she Many of the plants and paper for each pass through the birds. also took courses in representational animals Barnaby captures in her prints press. Each print represents a long and In 1987, Berger created a series of drawing. can be seen from her studio in Volcano careful process. paintings of Kaua‘i’s most endangered Village. “Often the prints portray things birds and plants for the Aston Kaua‘i Berger’s original watercolors, as well that I’d like to see combined with real Resort, from which an edition of 2,000 Barnaby’s work can be found as fine art giclee reproductions, can observation. I see a rare plant in bloom prints was published. Proceeds from represented in Volcano Art Center be found at the Volcano Art Center and then picture it with an ‘alala flying the sales were donated to the Hawai‘i Gallery as well as a few other galleries Gallery. through the foliage.” on the island. Nature Conservancy. Berger also Barnaby begins her multiple-plate, presented U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye

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“There is something both dramatic and dynamic about the manipulation of a molten mass of glass, such that the process has almost as much appeal for me as the end result. Hot glass is a medium in constant motion where balance, timing and rhythm are the essential tools in the process. Once you start, you can’t stop until it’s done. After more than 30 years in glass, I’ve conceded that it is the glass that is really in control, however much I would like to think otherwise. There is no denying the inherent beauty of the material, and I have never made any attempt to direct glass away from what it does best. I consider a work successful if the people whose life it becomes a part of derive some satisfaction from beauty

Mirage Series, handblown glass vessels by Michael and Misato Mortara and a sense of mystery as to how it evolved.” —Michael Mortara Michael and Misato Mortara glass away from what it does best. I Michael and Misato Mortara have been consider a work successful if the people making glass together for over 20 years, whose life it becomes a part of derive opening their Volcano studio in 2000. some satisfaction from beauty and a The Mortara’s work is found in private sense of mystery as to how it evolved.” collections worldwide, as well as the Michael Mortara earned a bachelor’s permanent collection of the Hawai‘i degree in architecture at the University State Foundation on Culture and the of Hawai‘i, with a minor in fine art, Arts and The Contemporary Museum, studying glass under Rick Mills. He has Honolulu. been blowing glass full time since 1986. Michael Mortara notes, “There is Misato Mortara was born in Shizuoka, something both dramatic and dynamic Japan. She earned an associate degree about the manipulation of a molten in business administration at Pasadena mass of glass, such that the process has City College before transferring to the almost as much appeal for me as the University of Hawai‘i. There, she took end result. Hot glass is a medium in a course in glass with Rick Mills, after which she has devoted her life to study constant motion where balance, timing Autumn Calabash (handblown glass) Michael Mortara Night Scape Series of handblown glass vessels by and rhythm are the essential tools in glass, mastering both blown and fused Michael and Misato Mortara the process. Once you start, you can’t glass techniques. stop until it’s done. After more than The Volcano Art Center Festival Exhibit features these five artists whose work is 30 years in glass, I’ve conceded that The Mortara’s fine art glass will be represented by Volcano Art Center Gallery: Michael and Misato Mortara, Margaret it is the glass that is really in control, featured in a special exhibit titled Barnaby, Marian Berger, Dietrich Varez and Dino Morrow. The exhibit will be on however much I would like to think From the Slopes Of Two Mountains at display in the Fairmont Orchid – Festival Exhibit Room 10 am-8 pm Jan 1-3 and otherwise. There is no denying the the Volcano Art Center Gallery 9 am-5 10 am-6 pm Jan 4. The Festival Exhibit Room is located across the hall from film inherent beauty of the material, and I pm daily Jan 5 through Feb 10, 2019. showings. have never made any attempt to direct

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albatross. More than 70 percent of the Caren Loebel-Fried world’s population of Laysan albatross Origami with (Mōlī) reside on Midway Atoll, as does Caren Loebel-Fried is an artist and Bonnie Cherni the largest population in the world author residing in Volcano, Hawai‘i. She of nesting black-footed albatross of Epic Origami has published numerous books retelling (Ka‘upu). Following this experience, Hawaiian legends through story and and in collaboration with Cornell Lab Epic Origami was founded by Bonnie art: Lono and the Magical Land Beneath of Ornithology, Loebel-Fried created Cherni, who was inspired to fold origami the Sea, Hawaiian Legends of Dreams, her most recent publication, A Perfect when she discovered John Montroll’s Hawaiian Day for an collection of origami books at the age Legends of Albatross. of 15. At Epic Origami, Cherni engages the Guardian Some of a team of accomplished origami Spirits, Pua Polu Loebel-Fried’s artists and innovative engineers to and the Pretty artwork from create large-scale origami exhibitions, Blue Hawaiian her book including a recent full gallery Flower, Legend projects are on installation at the Denver International of the Gourd and display as part Airport and Big Island exhibits at ‘Imiloa Naupaka. of The Voyager Astronomy Center and Keck Observatory. Loebel-Fried’s Exhibit at In addition to larger-than-life origami awards include Kahilu Theatre. installations, Epic Origami is also known the Hawaii The art is for innovative teaching workshops Book Publishers representative that attract and excite audiences to Association of canoe the potential of origami. Epic Origami maintains a mission to raise awareness Ka Palapala plants that would have been brought by sculptures vary from miniature to of endangered species through animal Po‘okela Awards for illustration and voyaging Polynesians to Hawai‘i as food life-size and are often made of exotic and ocean sculptures while furthering children’s Hawaiian culture and the sources and other important uses, and/ mediums such as aluminum, copper and origami as an art form. American Folklore Society’s Aesop Prize or were used here in the building and canvas, in addition to paper. for Children’s Folklore. She has created making of canoes. Epic Origami has been featured in iconic, educational art for conservation Join Bonnie Cherni for origami classes several publications, including Hawaiian organizations and government agencies noon-3 pm Jan 1-4 at the Fairmont Airlines/Hana Hou, Alaska Airlines/ such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Please join Caren Loebel-Fried for Orchid – Festival Seminar Room. The Alaska Beyond and Ke Ola Magazine. Service, Midway Atoll National Wildlife a “live documentary” presentation Festival Seminar Room is located next Through its work, Epic Origami Refuge, Kīlauea Point Natural History based on her book A Perfect Day for door to film screenings. Association and Conservation Council for an Albatross 11 am Thursday, Jan 3 at Hawaii. Parker Theatre. During the winter of 2014-2015, Loebel-Fried spent five weeks on

Midway Atoll, counting nesting Please join Caren Loebel-Fried for a albatrosses and assisting with research book signing to represent her books, efforts underway, so she might better artwork and prints 1-4 pm Thursday, represent the birds in print. With Jan 3 at Kahilu Theatre. Books these activities and creating art for available at the signing will include fundraising efforts, she hopes to Lono and the Magical Land Beneath the help preserve, protect and restore Sea and A Perfect Day for an Albatross. Midway’s biological diversity and support conservation efforts for

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Paradise. Artwork by Christian Enns

Christian Enns work. Enns is represented by Tiffany’s Mau‘a Tapu. Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Art Agency and can also be viewed by appointment at his studio. He creates A two-time National Scholastic Surfing large-scale oil paintings, for inclusion Association (NSSA) Champion and in his own body of work, as well as by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Hawai‘i Amateur Surfing Association commission. (HASA) Champion, Christian Enns spent Enns often works en plein air, taking 10 years traveling as a professional Tahiti-based artist Sophie Twigg- resides and reflects her love for the his paints and canvases to the shoreline, surfer before settling down on the Big Smith Teururai was born and raised at beauty and people of these islands. She where he can feel and sense the Island. As an artist, Enns creates visually Waiuli, on the coast of Hilo Bay, one of is fluent in French and Tahitian and is a ocean again. For the last few years, striking, Hawai‘i-themed paintings that seven brothers and sisters. She is the life-long surfer and swimmer. festival attendees have been given the feature the beauty of the islands and granddaughter of noted Hawai‘i artist Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai will opportunity to watch Enns paint on- local shoreline, as well as intimate William Twigg-Smith. Having studied display her work Jan 1-4 at the Fairmont location. The artist has also provided scenes from modern-day and traditional photography in high school and college, Orchid Festival Exhibit Room. The artwork for the Waimea Ocean Film Hawaiian life. Sophie began making annual visits to Festival Exhibit Room is located across Festival for a number of years, including Enns studied figurative realism and French Polynesia as a photographer for the hall from film screenings. at the festival auction. classical painting techniques at Laguna noted Bishop Museum archaeologist College of Art and Design in California, Dr. Yosihiko Sinoto, before going on to where he graduated cum laude with This year, attendees can observe study of painting at the University of Join Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai to a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He works Christian Enns as he paints en plein air Hawai‘i (UH). “Meet the Artist” 10 am-1 pm Jan 1 primarily with oil paint on panel or 8-11 am Jan 2-4 at the beach at Mauna Sophie studied French literature and and 10 am-6 pm Jan 4 in the Fairmont canvas. Kea Beach Hotel, to gain a sense of his painting at the University of Hawai‘i Orchid Festival Exhibit Room. The experience as a big wave surfer, process. Attendees can also observe (UH), where she received her Bachelor Enns 6-8:30 pm Jan 3-4 in the lobby of riding 50-foot waves, brings a unique, of Arts. Sophie’s artwork features the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, while he personal perspective and connection lifestyle scenes and vistas from Hawai‘i works on a large-scale oil painting. to the ocean that Enns carries to his and Huahine, Tahiti, where she now

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We also inflight recycling as one way we engage cups and other materials in 2017. opened, but unused, rolls of cups—that expanded our partnership with the Port guests in our environmental efforts. Alaska’s industry-leading, inflight are currently disposed of at the catering of Seattle to define a strategic path In addition to having the most recycling program means today’s guests kitchens. toward a sustainable future and reduced comprehensive inflight recycling produce 54 percent less garbage per We anticipate individual eight-ounce emissions in the aviation space through program of any U.S. airline, we’re proud person than they did in 2010. waters will be substituted with bulk the use of sustainable aviation fuels. of the variety of food and beverage Veteran Flight Attendant Jan bottled water on Virgin America flights items that allow us to delight our guests Christensen sets the recycling bar in fall of 2018 and we will investigate and which continue to earn our airline particularly high during a flight—nothing different options for bulk water accolades for customer service. We goes to waste that doesn’t need to. packaging. Except for a small amount Reducing waste from our inflight service. strive to strike a balance by sourcing “I’m known as a recycling guru. I love of plastic coming from international Our goal: Reduce inflight waste sent to sustainably made items and proactively doing it,” she said. “I don’t want to flights, we recycle close to 100 percent landfills by 70 percent over our 2010 pursuing recycling and other alternative leave a lot of garbage for the next of all large water bottles used onboard. baseline (lbs./passenger). methods of disposal. generation.” Recycling is a point of pride for our We will pursue several other opportunities in 2018, such as reducing Our recycling efforts began in the flight attendants; without their hard For more information or to read the footprint of our catering equipment late 1980s, when a grassroots team work and dedication, our recycling the full report, please visit: and supplies. For example, we are of Horizon Air employees began efforts would not be so successful. www.flysustainably.com. taking cans and bottles to their local These efforts are also supported investigating opportunities to reduce recycling centers after their shifts. by our Inflight Food and Beverage Their enthusiasm was infectious and Department. Recycling is included in soon employees in other locations were employee performance assessments and doing the same. Over time, their efforts it is a measurement for our catering BRING A BOTTLE became easier, as airports started vendors, who follow relevant catering Help us reduce inflight waste by bringing a refillable offering recycling facilities onsite. policies and procedures that contribute In 2006, the U.S. aviation industry towards our goal. With landfill rates at water bottle to the airport and fill it up once you’re past was generating approximately 7.5 approximately $100 per ton on the West security. If just 10% of our guests brought a pre-filled million pounds of waste every day, Coast, recycling makes good business water bottle it would save 680,000 plastic bottles per with only 20 percent making it to a sense for the catering vendors in charge recycling center, according to a study by of waste disposal. year. Starting summer 2018, Alaska Airlines replaced non- the Natural Resources Defense Council Alaska Airlines also remains the recyclable, plastic stir straws and citrus picks – we used sole domestic airline that collects (NRDC). 22 million last year – with sustainable, marine-friendly In 2007, Alaska Airlines’ Green Team compostable material, which is implemented a recycling program collected in green compost bags on alternatives on all domestic and international flights, as similar to Horizon’s that applied to each flight. Flight attendants capture well as in Alaska’s lounges across the country. the airline’s larger aircraft operation. several tons of coffee grounds each Starting small, with only newspaper year, which are diverted to composting facilities instead of the landfill. We

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Mahalo to our 2018/2019 Inner Circle Supporters A special thank you to our Inner Circle Supporters. The Waimea Ocean Film Festival happens with your support.

Anonymous Concepción S. and Irwin Federman Ludwick Family Foundation Hazen Family Foundation Dawn and David Zierk Ava Williams Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Polly and Tom Bredt Judy Swanson Nancy S. Mueller Ann and John Broadbent The festival is made possible because of our sponsor and patron supporters. Melissa A. Yeager Penn and Net Payne Thank you to our exceptional 2018/2019 sponsors. Scott Elliot Justine Stamen Arrillaga Caroline Landry and David Kirk and John Arrillaga SPONSORS Marlene and Sandy Louchheim James M. and Nancy J. Hoak Edward D. Storm Venue and Lodging Sponsors Media and Local Sponsors Patsy and David Heffel Four Seasons Resort Hualālai Big Island Traveler The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i West Hawai‘i Today Mahalo to our 2018/2019 Circle of Friends Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and Resort Ke Ola Magazine Thank you for joining the circle of support, to make the festival possible. The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort Hawaii Tribune Herald Gruber Family Foundation Marj and Thomas Callinan Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy (HPA) Kona Law Kitty Egan Yen Yee and Paul G. Locklin Parker School Maui Jim Sunglasses Judy and Robert Huret Nancy L. Stephenson Anna Ranch Heritage Center Jim Hood | The Computer Doctor Baine Kerr Ginny and Hal Cogger The Kamuela Inn The Emily T. Gail Show Clemson Lam Mauna Lani Sea Adventures Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Inner Circle Sponsors Matson Foundation Four Seasons Resort Hualālai The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‘i Food and Beverage Sponsors Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and Resort Starbucks Coffee The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort Big Island Brewhaus Meridia Restaurant Sushi Rock Holualoa Inn Palani French Bakers PSAV Laulima Food Patch Alaska Airlines Waimea Music K2imaging, Inc. Big Island Traveler 102.7 The Beach The Wave @ 92fm Maile Charters

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Thank you to our volunteers and everyone in the community who contributed to make the festival possible. A special thank you to:

Jude McAnesby Jennifer Bryan Celeste Tremblay Anoano Design Group Jolene Decker David Ellis Craig Anderson Rudy DeRochemont Tom Cross Beamer Solomon Hālau o Po‘ohala Keith M. Groves Ginny Cogger Kansas Henderson Sofia Howard Mark Morphew Pamela Polland Sarah Douglas Jayne and Tom Kerns Jessica Henley Presley Van Brow Ava Williams Jim Hood | The Computer Doctor Waimea Instant Printing Lisen Twigg-Smith Phyllis Kanekuni Pat and Dave Allbee Megan MacArthur Uncle Earl Regidor Patty Walker Kawaihae Canoe Club Jared Terpak Chelsea Morriss Dana Petteys Barbara Garcia Fern Gavelek Will Zucker Jon Vedelli David Byars Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Joe Loschiavo Tammy Touchet Scott Elliot Kawika Ruddle Pua Case Kelly Hoyle Hālau Hula Ke‘alaonamaupua Jerry Blevins local supporters — businesses and organizations Keomailani Case John Boyle Chadd Paishon Kevin McCann Jim Hood | The Computer Doctor Little Hands Hawaii Pomai Bertelmann Chad Wiggins Volcano Mist Cottage Mrs. Barry’s Kona Cookies Deb Goodwin Maka Wiggins ACE Hardware OK Farms Alva Kamalani Anna and Danny Akaka Aha Honey Rare Hawaiian Honey Paul Buckley Matt Pearce Anahola Granola Spicy Ninja Sauce Geoffrey Mundon Patti Cook Big Island Candies Tai Shan Farms Hamakua Macadamia Nut Factory Tea Hawaii and Company Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Hawaiian Volcano Sea Salt Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Healthways Natural Foods Body Glove Kona Lisen and Des Twigg-Smith Aikane Coffee Kōkua Hawai‘i Foundation Kona Coffee and Tea KTA Superstores

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volunteers board

Thank you to our extraordinary Worth Ludwick volunteer crew Tania Howard Melissa Yeager Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai Nancy S. Mueller Yuki Ainge Jude McAnesby Callie Khourie ocean film production Pat Allbee Kevin McCann PR | Fern Gavelek Communications, Dave Allbee Nancy Michel Founder and Director | Tania Howard Jessica Henley, gaiacreative Diane Ashley Alicia Nagel advisory board Lani Bowman Carol Plummer Hospitality | Lisa Shattuck Web | Sarah Douglas, Krista Maggard Jim Budde Linda Preskitt Irwin Federman Office, Production and Event Support Accounting | Patricia Schumacher Madeleine Budde Carolyn Righi Polly and Tom Bredt Mary Beth Bartlett, Krista Maggard, Computer Maintenance | Jim Hood, Sydney Budde Leta Shattuck Joe Fagundes, III Taylor Ann Simon, Cara McCann, Patrick Bullock Randy Smith Jude McAnesby The Computer Doctor Lisa Caverhill Debby Stern Design | Sarah Douglas, gaiacreative Lorrie Dillon Bruce Stern Technical Team Lead | Jim Hurst Passes and Design Support | Mary Dressler Derek Stuart Technical Team | Jim Hurst, Krista Maggard, Jules Hart Nancy Erger Annalee Taylor Rudy DeRochemont, David Byars, Gabriel Estrada Marian Tompkins Bruce Stern, John Week, Jim Toten, Virginia Fortner Lisen Twigg-Smith Greg Green, Joe Losciavo, program guide Sally Friedman Desmond Twigg-Smith George Fry Gabriel Estrada Beverly Warns Program Design | Sarah Douglas, Shirley Ann Fukumoto John Week Projection | Rudy DeRochemont, Kathi Giebel gaiacreative Baki Wharton John Week, Greg Green, Bruce Stern, Greg Green Program Editor, Writer, Photo Editor Michael Whelan Jim Toten, Gabriel Estrada Dorothy Hafner and Art Director | Tania Howard Jim Hood Paul Willard Theatre/Desk Managers and Emcees | Cindy Ikeda Diann Wilson David Byars, Lisa Shattuck Principle Proof Reader and Style Guide Baine Kerr Jeanne Witt Joe Loschiavo, Janet Coburn Manager | Fern Gavelek Donna Worden Kathy Kurpita Nancy Erger, Sam Bennett Proof Readers | Fern Gavelek, Eric Kwan John Wray John Wray, Maka Wiggins Janet Coburn, Bruce Stern, Shawn James Leavey Margo Wray Lisa Shattuck Elodia Le May Connie Young Film Intro Editor | Dave Byars Joe Loschiavo Dharmani Zelin Artwork by Sophie Twigg-Smith Teururai

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