fourth annual ocean film festival
January 2–5, 2014 Waimea, Mauna Kea Resort + The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‛i January 6–10, 2014 Four Seasons Resort Hualalai sponsors contents + about our area
lodging and venue sponsors contents 4 About the Festival 5 Letter from the Director 6 Host Venues and Map 8 Films 28 Waimea Schedule 32 Waimea Breakfast Talks KOHALA COAST 34 Four Seasons Schedule 36 Four Seasons Breakfast Talks 37 Guest Speakers and Presentations Inner Circle sponsors 60 Artists and Exhibits 67 About Our Leaders 72 Thank You to Our Contributors © Christian Enns
about our area
The Island of Hawai‛i, known as The these reefs, along with Hawaiian Big Island to avoid confusion with the Hawksbill turtles, octopuses, eels and media and local sponsors state, was formed as five volcanoes smaller reef sharks. Spinner dolphins overlapped one another to become come to rest in shallow bays during the one land mass. The still active Kīlauea day, before returning to deeper water sits at the heart of Hawai‛i Volcanoes to hunt at night. Humpback whales National Park, while Mauna Kea, Mauna frolic along the coast during winter, Loa and Hualālai rise above the Kohala when the ocean fills with the sound of and Kona coastline, where stark lava their beautiful song and people watch fields meet turquoise waters and multi- enthralled as they breach, or surface hued sand beaches. The gentle slopes of for air. food and Beverage sponsors the Kohala Mountains, now volcanically The town of Waimea, also known as extinct, provide the backdrop to the Kamuela, sits in the saddle between town of Waimea and to northern Hawi the dry and green sides of the island, 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 that It is an area rich in both Hawaiian lends character to the town, as for the history and sea life, with a relatively rainbows that grace the countryside, Gills healthy coral reef ecosystem still intact. reflecting the ever-shifting weather L A N A I Tropical fish, many of which are found patterns between rain, mist and sun. nowhere else in the world, inhabit Cover art © Christian Enns
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Theatre Entry about the festival Remember to wear your pass. Festival aloha! Using the Program volunteers will open doors for seating It is my great pleasure to welcome you For those who missed them, 2013 All film screenings, presentations and 20 minutes prior to each show. The to the fourth annual Waimea Ocean People’s Choice winners Chasing Ice and special events are listed by day and theater will be cleared between Film Festival. The festival brings North of the Sun will show one more venue in the festival schedule. Each screenings. In the event a film over 50 films to the big screen this time by popular request, and so be sure Breakfast Talk location is presented, screening may sell out, a line will year, most of which are world, U.S., to catch them this time around. along with its description, in the be allowed to form starting one hour Hawai‛i or Big Island premieres, and For surf nostalgia and adventure, Breakfast Talk section of the program. before screening time. all of which are exceptional. On the 1960s surf photographer and former Films are grouped with other films TBAs (To Be Announced) cultural side, the festival weaves a rich Reyn’s CEO Tim McCullough offers a and/or speakers into film blocks, as offering, with films by Eddie and Myrna slide presentation and exhibit of his A certain number of films will be shown in the schedule. When filmmakers Kamae about the history, culture and work from the period. In partnership shown as TBAs. The most popular films will be present for discussion after the music of the islands, a presentation with Bruce Brown Films, the festival from the festival will be shown at this film; this is noted by ‘Q&A.’ by Hula Preservation Society, and the launches the 50th anniversary tour time, along with a few films pending showing of the 1951 remake of the of The Endless Summer. And, HPA at publication. TBA schedules and Hospitality Desk 20th Century Fox film Bird of Paradise, graduate Alison Teal premieres the special screenings will be posted at the The Hospitality Desk is located in the with an introduction by local lead latest installments in her series Alison’s Hospitality Desk starting on Saturday lobby of the Kahilu Theatre during the Queenie Dowsett. Adventures: Blue Duck Station and The morning, Jan 5. Waimea portion of the event and in the In this vein, KGMB’s Brother’s Lost Island of the Firewalkers. foyer of the Ballroom when the festival The Pass System Cazimero shares the story of this musical Dr. M. Sanjayan, an Emmy nominated moves to Four Seasons Resort Hualālai. The pass system enables the festival duo, with producer Phil Arnone and news contributor and the lead scientist Passes and programs are available to organize a dynamic event that writer Robert Pennybacker in attendance for The Nature Conservancy, returns to for pick-up at the Hospitality Desk at includes films, speakers, presentations, to answer questions about the film. The the festival to share a sneak preview Kahilu Theatre starting on Jan 1, from Breakfast Talks and other activities, and Voyager Exhibit features the upcoming of his episode in a star-studded series noon to 5 pm. Passes may be purchased allows for rich and complex content, World Wide Voyage of Hōkūle‛a, and produced by James Cameron, The at the desk, along with other items. with one aspect woven together with opens with a blessing and ceremony at Years of Living Dangerously, which will The Hospitality Desk is available to the next. Kahilu Theatre on January 2nd. ‛Imiloa be aired on Showtime in April. And answer questions and provide additional While passes are the ideal way to Astronomy Center also joins the festival Dawn Lippert joins our speakers this information as the festival progresses. enjoy the festival, remaining seats this year, with a presentation on year for a presentation on the Energy wayfinding, complete with star compass Excelerator. Hours of Operation at for films and presentations will be Kahilu Theatre opened for individual ticket purchase 15 and a full-dome star show. The festival is very pleased to have Wednesday, Jan 1: noon – 5 pm minutes prior to each show. For more For inspiration, speaker and author The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‛i as one Thursday, Jan 2: 8 am – 10 pm information on passes, please talk with Alan Cohen returns as one of the of our venues this year. Thank you Friday, Jan 3: 8 am – 10 pm the Hospitality Desk, visit the website at presenters in Finding Joe, to host to all of our sponsors and patrons for Saturday, Jan 4: 8 am –10 pm www.waimeaoceanfilm.org, or contact a workshop on The Hero’s Journey. making the festival possible, and to Sunday, Jan 5: 8 am – 5 pm the festival office at 808-854-6095. National Medal of Arts award recipient, everyone in the community who has composer Morten Lauridsen attends the worked or contributed in some way. And, Hours of Operation at Patrons and Sponsors festival this year along with the film thank you to all of our filmmakers and Four Seasons ballroom The festival is made possible through about his life and work, Shining Night. speakers who have traveled here to foyer the contribution of patrons and sponsors And, Botso, a beautiful film about a share with us. Monday, Jan 6: 6 pm – 9 pm and the festival would like to thank music teacher who made his way to Mahalo nui loa, Tuesday, Jan 7: 8 am – 9 pm these individuals and businesses. Please Morro Bay from Stalinist Georgia against Tania Howard Wednesday, Jan 8: 8 am – 9 pm support our festival sponsors. all odds, is inspiration in itself. Founder and Director Thursday, Jan 9: 8 am – 9 pm Friday, Jan 10: 8 am – 7 pm
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Kohala Coast Directions to The Fairmont Orchid, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Hawai‛i from Waimea: Breakfast Talks are scheduled in the • Drive approximately 11 miles down Garden Room at the Mauna Kea Beach Kawaihae Road (Highway 19), until Hotel each morning Jan 3-5, 8:15 you reach the T-intersection on your to 9:15 am, with coffee and light left, where the road heads to Kona. fare provided. A sunrise yoga class is Turn left to continue on Highway 19. available to festival pass holders from 7 You are now traveling south, parallel to 8 am on Saturday, Jan 4 and Sunday, to the ocean on your right. Jan 5 on the lawn by the lū‛au grounds. The Mauna Kea hosts the Taste of the • Continue approximately 7 miles, past Island event at 5 pm on Saturday, Jan the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel entrance, 5 at the lū‛au grounds. Alan Cohen’s until you see the Mauna Lani Resort workshop will also be in the Garden sign on your right before a tall Room on Sunday, Jan 5 at 9:30 am. coconut grove entry road. • Turn right onto Mauna Lani Drive. The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‛i Proceed past the Guard House to the New this year, The Fairmont Orchid, traffic circle and take the first right Hawai‛i hosts film showings and to The Fairmont Orchid on North presentations in its own Lehua Theatre, Kaniku Drive. as well as exhibits and presentations, including a portable dome provided • Stay on North Kaniku Drive until you by ‛Imiloa Astronomy Center, in the reach the main entrance to The host venues adjoining downstairs ballrooms. The Fairmont Orchid at the end of the drive, less than a mile. Valet and self- WAIMEA Fairmont Orchid also hosts a “Surfing parking available. Kahilu Theatre walking distance of Kahilu Theatre and the Sixties” reception on Jan 2 at 5 pm. A historic 490-seat theatre in the center it is suggested that attendees walk of Waimea town, Kahilu Theatre will between the two. Parker Theatre will Four Seasons host the festival’s Hospitality Desk, film host film screenings. Four Seasons Resort screenings and presentations. Hualālai will host Anna Ranch the film festival Jan Hawai‛i Preparatory Academy (HPA) – Listed on both the National and State 6-10, with an opening Gates Performing Arts Center Registers of Historic Places, the ranch night film Jan 6 The Gates Performing Arts Center is was purchased in 1848 by Englishman at 6:30 pm. Films a 360-seat theatre, located in the James Fay and his Hawaiian wife are shown in the heart of the upper Hawai‛i Preparatory Ka‛ipukai, and was in the same ranching Ballroom. Breakfast Academy (HPA) campus, about two family for five generations. Visitors may Talks are scheduled miles west of town. HPA Gates will host tour the spectacular and expansive each morning from film screenings. gardens as well as the 14-room historic 8:15 to 9:15 am, with ranch house with a treasure trove of coffee and pastries The Parker School Theatre Hawaiian koa furnishings, artifacts and provided. The closing Originally built in 1920 on Parker Ranch fine millinery. Anna Ranch will host a night reception and as an entertainment center for ranch Breakfast Talk each morning Jan 3-5, film will be in Hoku residents and workers, Parker Theatre 8:15 to 9:15 am, with coffee and light Ampitheatre. has been renovated over the decades fare provided. and seats 280. Parker Theatre is within © Christian Enns
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Queenie Ventura Dowsett/Bird of Paradise
Hula elder Queenie Dowsett is For her talents, beauty and family descended from a line of kapu (sacred) life, including her paniolo husband dancers and was trained in hula from Jamie and five children, Dowsett was a very young age in Lā‛ie through her a natural to win the crown of the first mother, Sophie Kalili Ventura, and her Statehood Mrs. Hawai‛i in 1959. mother’s family. In 2010, Hula Preservation Society In the late 1940�s, after being sent produced a short film, Queenie, Spirit to a number of teachers in Honolulu of a Dancer. In it, Auntie Queenie shares from whom she learned the richness not only her hula background and and discipline of hula, Dowsett was experience, but also some important chosen by the legendary Kumu Hula advice for hula and life: “Be yourself, ‛Iolani Luahine to be a member of the and when you do something, give it your prestigious line she was forming. Auntie 110 percent!” Queenie was just a teenager at the time Auntie Queenie is 83 years young and and today is the only living member of still sharing her winning smile and heart that group. of aloha. Auntie Queenie considers Auntie ‛Iolani her greatest hula influence and is often told she embodies her teacher when she Join Auntie Queenie for showings of dances - the highest compliment a hula Bird of Paradise at 6 pm on Thursday, practitioner can receive. Jan 2 at Kahilu Theatre, and at 6:45 In 1950, Auntie Queenie was pm on Friday, Jan 10 at Four Seasons. awarded the local lead in a remake of Auntie Queenie will also participate the Hollywood film Bird of Paradise. in a Breakfast Talk about Auntie During the film she shares hula she ‛Iolani with Hula Preservation Society learned from ‛Iolani Luahine, who also on Saturday, Jan 4 at Anna Ranch. choreographed the dances in the film. Auntie Queenie is an accomplished solo dancer who also graced the stage with many well-known Hawaiian entertainers, including Alfred Apaka and Ed Kenney.
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Alison Gannett: A MoveShake Bird of Paradise Story Delmer Daves (USA, 100 min) Alexandria Bombach (USA, 9 min) In person: Queenie Dowsett Hawai‛i Premiere Filmed in Hawai‛i, this 20th Century Fox 1951 Alison Gannett is an award-winning green energy remake of Bird of Paradise was choreographed consultant, world champion extreme freeskier, by legendary Kumu Hula ‛Iolani Luahine. The cast farmer, frequent keynote speaker and founder of includes many locals, including Queenie Dowsett, multiple non-profits, including the Save Our Snow who played the local lead. The richness and Foundation. Her unstoppable optimism and can-do complexity of the hula, not to mention the local spirit may have met its match, however, when her talent, makes it unique among Hollywood films. land is threatened by Natural Gas fracking. Also starring Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget.
Alison's Adventures: Blue Duck BOTSO Station Tom Walters (USA, 83 min) Alison Teal (USA, 34 min) In person: Tom Walters In Person: Alison Teal, Sarah Lee Hawai‛i Premiere World Premiere Born in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, a In the latest episode of Alison’s Adventures, Alison young Botso is allowed 20 minutes for a final visit travels to Blue Duck Station on the North Island of with his father after Stalin orders his father’s New Zealand to help as preparations are underway execution. What Botso’s father tells him during for a visit from the minister of conservation. Alison is this time become the words he lives by, guiding put to work alongside cowboy Chad, as animals keep him through his life. Surviving Stalin and WWII, mysteriously disappearing, and she and Chad are sent Botso finds his way to Morro Bay, where he on a series of missions to save the ranch. becomes a beloved music teacher.
Alison's Adventures: Lost Island Brothers Cazimero of the Firewalkers Phil Arnone (USA, 47 min) Alison Teal (USA, 40 min) In person: Phil Arnone, Robert Pennybacker In Person: Alison Teal, Sarah Lee The Brothers Cazimero: At Home in the Islands World Premiere explores the individual backgrounds, influences, In this episode of Alison’s Adventures, Alison sets off talents and personalities of Robert and Roland to Fiji in search of a lost island said to have some Cazimero which, when combined, create a of the last firewalkers on earth. When she meets musical entity that embodies the spirit of our the island’s chief, Alison soon finds herself on an island home. adventure, having been given a series of tests to prove her worth. Along the way, she learns about the Fijian past and taps into the secret to happiness.
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Chasing Ice Dancing Salmon Home Jeff Orlowski (USA, 75 min) Will Doolittle (USA, 66 min) 2013 People’s Choice Award Hawai‛i Premiere After a 2005 National Geographic assignment on the In 1945, Shasta Dam ended the salmon run up Earth’s changing climate, photographer James Balog the McCloud, where the lives of the Winnemem returned to the Arctic to capture a multi-year record Wintu people had been interwoven with salmon of the world’s changing glaciers using time-lapse since the beginning of their creation story. The cameras. The images compress years into seconds, Winnemems’ travel to New Zealand, where the capturing ancient mountains of ice in motion as they McCloud salmon now thrive, thanks to a 19th disappear at a breathtaking rate. century fisheries program. With the help of their Maori hosts, they find McCloud salmon again.
The Coral Reef The Endless Summer Pepe Esteban-Infantes San Martín Bruce Brown (USA, 92 min) (Spain, 14 min) In person: Tim McCullough USA Premiere The concept of The Endless Summer was sparked Coral reefs are a natural wonder - an artistry of at the suggestion of a travel agent, who noted color and pattern that seems almost to dance that it would be less expensive to buy an around- in the light. The beauty of the reef overlays a the-world ticket, then fly directly from Los complex system, which sustains an abundance Angeles to Cape Town and back. From this, Bruce of life, all dependent on the reef’s growing Brown came up with the idea of following the foundation of tiny coral polyps. The Coral Reef summer season around the world and the rest... shares the unique beauty and complexity of this is history. underwater world.
The Crash Reel Energy Excelerator Lucy Walker (USA, 109 min) (USA, 5 min) Hawai‛i Premiere In person: Dawn Lippert The Crash Reel shares 15 years of footage depicting The Energy Excelerator is a startup program the rivalry between half-pipe legends Kevin of the Pacific International Center for High Pearce and Shaun White, leading into the 2010 Technology Research (PICHTR), dedicated to Winter Olympics. Then, Kevin suffers severe head solving the world’s energy problems, starting injuries during a training accident, which changes in Hawai‛i. The program helps innovative everything. Kevin’s family helps him recover, but energy companies succeed in Hawai‛i and the his desire to snowboard again is met with the Asia Pacific region with non-dilutive funding, reality of his new life and the risk of further injury. strategic relationships and a vibrant ecosystem.
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Finding Joe Good Morning Miyazaki Pat Takaya Solomon (USA, 80 min) Matt Westcott (Canada, 33 min) In person: Alan Cohen Hawai‛i Premiere Through interviews with visionaries from Deepak Set in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki, Chopra to Laird Hamilton, Finding Joe explores the and told from the perspective of the Canadian work of Joseph Campbell and navigates the stages filmmakers who now call this Japanese surf town of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey. home, Good Morning Miyazaki provides a visual Finding Joe shows how The Hero’s Journey provides reflection on the region and the people. From a narrative for how to live a fully realized life and single-fin cruisin’ to heavy typhoon-produced explains why we are so drawn to the Hero’s story. beach-break barrels, the film features some of the best surfers in Japan.
Gasland, Part II Gregg Treinish: A MoveShake Story Josh Fox (USA, 125 min) Alexandria Bombach (USA, 15 min) In person: Josh Fox Hawai‛i Premiere Hawai‛i Premiere When asking himself the question of how to In this gripping follow-up to his Oscar-nominated make a difference, and having just been named film Gasland, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic, dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the Gregg Treinish decided to combine his passion for dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the adventure with his deep interest and education in controversial method of extracting natural gas and wildlife biology. After digging into “three seconds oil, and how ordinary people across the country are of courage,” he founded and runs Adventurers and being impacted. Scientists for Conservation.
GMO OMG Groundswell Jeremy Seifert (USA, 85 min) Chris Malloy (USA, 23 min) Big Island Premiere Hawai‛i Premiere Theologian and father Jeremy Seifert sets off across In Groundswell, filmmaker and Patagonia surf the country to understand what GMOs are and what ambassador Chris Malloy seeks to understand they mean for his family. Along the way, he asks the what’s at stake should the Enbridge Northern questions as to what we are doing to the food we Gateway tar sands project move forward. The eat, to our seed supply, to developing nations, to project would pipe tar sands oil from Alberta small farmers, and to our health. to British Columbia, where it would then be transported by oil tankers, navigating narrow channels along this pristine coast.
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The Hawaiians - Reflecting Spirit Islands of Life Edgy Lee (USA, 58 min) Bo Boudart (USA, 62 min) In person: Edgy Lee In person: Bo Boudart The Hawaiians-Reflecting Spirit offers cultural Hawai‛i Premiere insights into who the Hawaiians are as a people, Islands of Life explores the spectacular wildlife their origins, historical challenges and current and habitats on the Islands of the Bahamas, the social conditions, and the revival of spirit of a rich history of the nation, the vibrant culture of native people whose identity is intrinsically tied the people who live there, and the progressive to their homelands. programs implemented by this small nation to preserve its natural resources and beauty.
The Heart and the Sea Jane’s Journey Nathan Oldman (Australia, 85 min) Lorenz Knauer (Germany, 106 min) Over three years in the making, The Heart and Hawai‛i Premiere The Sea explores the joy that lies at the center of Jane’s Journey follows the life and work of Dr. surfing: family, friends, quiet beauty and a shared Jane Goodall from her childhood in England, to intimacy with the sea. Filmed in stunning locations Gombe National Park in Tanzania, where she began in Australia, New Zealand, France and the Basque her groundbreaking research nearly half a century region of Spain, this film is a soulful and enchanting ago. Considered the world’s foremost expert on contribution to the surf film genre. chimpanzees, her work continues as UN Ambassador of Peace, with the Jane Goodall Institute, and with the Roots & Shoots program she founded.
Hot Water Journey from Zanskar Lizabeth Rogers (USA, 82 min) Frederick Marx (USA, 90 min) Hawai‛i Premiere In person: Frederick Marx Hot Water examines the legacy of uranium Hawai‛i Premiere mining in the West, taking a look at its impact Ringed by Himalayan mountains in remote on health and the creeping risk of radioactive northwest India, Zanskar has maintained Tibetan waste seeping into our water supply. With a high Buddhist culture intact for thousands of years. level of investigative journalism, the film delves In the face of change, two monks work to build into this issue that will be with us for at least 10 a school that will educate children in their own times as long into the future as Mesopotamian language, culture, history and religion. In the civilization is to our past. meantime, a few children are brought on a harrowing journey to schools outside.
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Keepers of the Flame The Last Ocean Eddie Kamae (USA, 60 min) Peter Young (New Zealand, 87 min) In person: Eddie and Myrna Kamae Hawai‛i Premiere Keepers of the Flame tells the story of three The Ross Sea, Antarctica, is the most pristine cultural icons whose lives and work helped preserve stretch of ocean on Earth. A vast, frozen and revive traditional Hawaiian culture, bridging landscape that teems with life. Largely the gap in knowledge at a crucial time. Hawaiian untouched by humans, it is one of the last historian and author Mary Kawena Pukui, kumu places where the delicate balance of nature hula and teacher Edith Kanakaole, and dancer and prevails. The film asks the question of whether chanter ‛Iolani Luahine. we will protect this world resource while we can.
Lady B’s First Winter Maverick Moments Scott Ransom (USA, 23 min) Rocky Romano (USA, 51 min) Hawai‛i Premiere In person: Rocky Romano, Miranda Winters Lady B’s First Winter tells the story of how a Hawai‛i Premiere husband and wife ski patrol team train puppy With stunning imagery, Maverick Moments Lady B through the stages of becoming one of follows several big wave surfers as they seek to Telluride’s legendary avalanche rescue dogs. balance their personal lives with their passion The film speaks to a level of safety preparedness to ride the biggest waves and their hopes of that has applications for any arena. being crowned world champion. The series explores the lives these surfers lead and the sacrifices they make for the sport they love.
The Last Mountain Miss South Pacific Bill Haney (USA, 95 min) Teresa Tico (USA, 40 min) Hawai‛i Premiere In person: Teresa Tico In Coal River Valley, West Virginia, a group of Miss South Pacific tells the story of the South citizens from a coal mining town try to stop the Pacific islanders who compete in the 2009-2010 practice of mountaintop removal. They work to Miss South Pacific Pageant, each showcasing transform their community from a coal mining the dance, dress and culture of their native town into a wind power generator for their own land. The pageant theme, “Preserving Our health, safety and economic well being. The film Environment the Pacific Way,” highlights climate shows the cost of coal and the burden born by the change and how changing weather patterns are communities most directly affected. impacting peoples lives.
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More Than Honey Ocean Frontiers Markus Imhoof (Switzerland, 90 min) Karen Anspacher-Meyer & Ralf Meyer Hawai‛i Premiere (USA, 60 min) Over the past 15 years, 50% to 90% of all local Hawai‛i Premiere bees have disappeared all over the planet, with Ocean Frontiers provides an inspiring look at the numbers varying by region. 80% of plant successful collaborations between biologists, species require bees to be pollinated. More farmers, fishermen and shipping companies Than Honey explores the ways in which bees are working together to protect the marine used, kept and treated, and the use of pesticides environment. Among these is POORT, founded and other factors that appear to be collectively and run by commercial fishermen, who have causing this collapse. established a marine-protected area around their fishery and protected its watershed.
NĀ Kamalei: The Men of Hula Paniolo O Hawai‛i Lisette Marie Flanary (USA, 58 min) Edgy Lee (USA, 79 min) In Person: Lisette Marie Flanary In person: Edgy Lee Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula follows Kumu Hula Before the cowboys of the Wild West began to Robert Cazimero, and the only all-male hula rope cattle on the frontier, the paniolo were busy school in Hawai‛i, as they prepare to compete wrangling herds on Hawai‛i. Paniolo O Hawai‛i in the world’s largest hula festival, Merrie provides the history and backdrop to the paniolo Monarch. The film tells a story of Hawaiian pride town of Waimea, tracing paniolo heritage back to as the men celebrate their 30th anniversary in the 1790s—when British explorer Captain George continuing the revival of men dancing the hula. Vancouver arrived with a few Mexican longhorns.
North of the Sun Paradise Found Inge Wegge (Norway, 46 min) Tom Swartwout (USA, 13 min) 2013 People’s Choice Award Winner Hawai‛i Premiere Inge Wegge and Jørn Ranum spend nine months Photographer Tim Laman and ornithologist on a remote, arctic island off the coast of Edwin Scholes have spent nearly a decade Norway through the heart of winter. Living “off documenting the 39 species of birds of paradise of leftovers,” they build their own cabin out of that live in Papua New Guinea, famed for their debris and trash washed up on shore, eat expired outlandish coloring and bizarre mating dances. food that would otherwise have been thrown Scholes’ and Laman’s work is the basis of the away and surf through the dark of winter. National Geographic Museum’s “Amazing Avian Evolution” exhibit.
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Pilgrimage of Grace Queenie: The Spirit of a Dancer Matt Strathern, Chris McClean (UK, 4 min) Hula Preservation Society (USA, 10 min) Hawai‛i Premiere In person: Queenie Dowsett North Sea swells are never easy to predict and Queenie: The Spirit of a Dancer shares insights hope often fades with the dawn. Occasionally, all and stories from hula elder Queenie Ventura elements combine, bringing pristine breaks sculpted Dowsett, who was mentored by legendary Kumu by offshore winds, reef and sparkling sunshine. This Hula ‛Iolani Luahine. Dowsett tells the story of is when the promise of the North Sea beckons and how she was chosen by Auntie ‛Iolani to be one the pilgrimage begins. of her dancers and relates the impact Auntie ‛Iolani had on her life, offering valuable advice for dancers and young people today.
Plastic Paradise: The Great The Questions We Ask Pacific Garbage Patch Kalum Ko (Canada, 3 Min) Angela Sun (USA, 57 min) USA Premiere In person: Angela Sun In the spring of 2013, Canadian adventurer Thousands of miles from civilization, Midway Atoll and speaker Bruce Kirkby crossed the Georgia is filling with plastic. Journalist Angela Sun travels Straight from Vancouver to Victoria on a on a journey of discovery to understand what is stand up paddleboard. During this journey, he happening. Along the way she meets scientists and contemplates the true meaning of adventure. researchers who shed light on the effects of our plastic consumption and learns that the problem is larger and more insidious than we realize.
Power Paths Red Gold Bo Boudart (USA, 53 Min) Ben Knight (USA, 54 min) In person: Bo Boudart Hawai‛i Premiere Hawai‛i Premiere The most productive sockeye salmon fishery in What began as a search for the stories of energy the world thrives in Bristol Bay Alaska, where innovators evolved into a realization that Native a mining company has proposed an open pit American leaders are at the forefront of this effort, gold and copper mine. One of the largest in as they work to initiate utility scale renewable energy North America, the mine would be built at the projects to provide clean and sustainable energy for headwaters of Bristol Bay. Red Gold is the story their tribes and surrounding cities. For direction, they of this place and the people whose livelihood turn to world energy leaders Denmark and Germany. and culture depend on this pristine watershed.
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Russia Serendipity Chris Burkard (USA, 23 min) Simon Lamb (Australia, 66 min) Hawai‛i Premiere USA Premiere Russia documents a journey into the remote By the most serendipitous chain of events, wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula in search of 20-year-old Australian surfer Tony Hinde found surf and adventure, exploring the surf potential of himself shipwrecked on a deserted island in this coastline for the first time. Along the way, the the middle of the Indian ocean—on the then- film shares scenes of the Russian landscape and the unknown Maldives—for the start of his great surf warmth of its people. fairytale. The discoveries Tony made included his own fleet of perfect waves, which he had to himself for 15 years.
Li‛a: The Legacy of a Hawaiian Shining Night: A Portrait of Man Composer Morten Lauridsen Eddie Kamae (USA, 60 min) Michael Stillwater (USA, 74 min) In person: Eddie and Myrna Kamae In person: Morten Lauridsen Sam Li‛a Kalainaina’s story began in the Big Island’s Hawai‛i Premiere valley of Waipi‛o—a region filled with mystery, Exploring the relationship of art, nature and legend and deep ancestral power. Nurtured and spirituality, Shining Night reveals America’s inspired by the beauty of this special place, Sam most frequently performed contemporary choral Li‛a’s music gave voice not only to the land, but to composer, Morten Lauridsen. The story is told the history and culture of the Hawaiian people. through the lens of his love for the natural world along with his passion for music and literature.
Sea of Rock The Silver of the Sea Sebastian Doerk (Germany, 12 min) Are Pilskog (Norway, 29 min) Hawai‛i Premiere Hawai‛i Premiere In 1972 two Austrian guys almost invented the In the rough sea off the west coast of Norway, mountain bike when they tried to ride the Sea of giant herring shoals up to several miles long and Rock on a military bicycle they had stolen from wide migrate hundreds of miles. In the wake their grandfathers. The bicycle remains today where of the herring follow bigger fish, whales, birds it was abandoned and it took another 40 years for and man. Local biologist Are Pilskog sets out to professional cyclists Harald Philipp and Tom Oehler expose this drama and the destiny of the young to follow in their footsteps, embarking on this jaw- puffin chicks whose lives are tied to the timing dropping ride. of the herring run.
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Sine Qua Non: The Psychology of Surfing the Fifties Big Wave Surfing with Greg Long Bud Browne (USA, 70 min) Richard Yelland (USA, 22 min) In Person: Anna Trent Moore In person: Zach Weisberg The first filmmaker to produce surf films Big Island Premiere commercially, Bud Browne emerged from years Sine Qua Non: The Psychology of Big Wave Surfing of retirement to make a compilation of his best provides an intimate portrait of the mentality, risks sequences shot between 1953 and 1960. He and lifestyle associated with pursuing monstrous asked iconic watermen Peter Cole and John Kelly waves around the planet through the eyes of the to narrate the film, both of whom collaborated world’s most decorated big wave surfer, Greg Long. with Bud on many of his earlier films. The result A Latin phrase, Sine Qua Non roughly translates to is this ode to surfing’s golden age. “Without which, (there is) nothing.”
Snows of the Nile What If Neil Losin (USA, 20 min) Sebastian Doerk (Germany, 4 min) Hawai‛i Premiere USA Premiere Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains, or “Mountains of Narrated by philosopher Alan Watts, and the Moon,” are changing fast, as their glaciers filmed in Hawai‛i, What If asks the question: disappear. Snows of the Nile follows two scientists/ What would you create if you could dream photographers as they retrace the steps of the Duke the life you’d live? of Abruzzi’s legendary 1906 expedition. Their goal is to re-capture the famous glacier photographs taken by Vittorio Sella and thereby visualize the change.
Surf on the Kohala Coast © Jim Hurst
Sons of Hawai‛i Eddie Kamae (USA, 80 min) In person: Eddie and Myrna Kamae Sons of Hawai‛i tells the story of the band that helped launch the Hawaiian cultural renaissance. Spanning 40 years of Hawai‛i’s rich musical tradition, the film offers an intimate look at an extraordinary group of performers and composers: their songs, their humor and their devotion to a sound that continues to convey something essential about the Hawaiian spirit.
26 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2014 27 waimea schedule waimea schedule thursday, jaN 2 friday, jaN 3 Thursday Friday Fairmont Fairmont Parker Kahilu HPA Gates Fairmont Parker Kahilu HPA Gates Fairmont Ballroom Ballroom 8:00 8:00 8:15-9:15a 8:15-9:15a 8:30 8:30 BREAKFAST TALKS BREAKFAST TALKS 9:00 9:00
9:30 9:30 9:30a-11:00a Alison Gannet: A 9:45a-11:15a 9:45a-11:30a 9:45a-10:45a 10:00 10:00 MoveShake Story Li'a: Gregg Treinish More Botso Legacy of a 10:30 10:30 Dancing Salmon Than Hawaiian Man Home Honey 11:00 11:00 11:00a-12:30p 11:15a-12:45p Q&A 11:15a-12:30p 11:30 11:30 Islands of Life 11:30a-1:00p The Wayfinding 11:45a-1:15p 11:45a-1:15p 11:45a-1:15p 11:45a-1:45p 11:45a-1:30p Heart and Skills noon Sea of Rock 12:00p-1:15p noon The Last Ocean The Sea 'Imiloa Dome The Heart Keepers of the The Last Ocean Sine Qua Non Wayfinding Q&A Jane's Journey 12:30 and Flame Q&A Skills 12:30 The Coral Reef The Sea Good Morning 'Imiloa Dome 12:45p-1:45p 1:00 Q&A Miyazaki 1:00 1:00p-2:00p Slide Show Russia Li'a: The 1:15p-2:45p World Wide 1:30 1:30p-3:15p 1:30 Legacy of a Questions We Ask Voyage 1:45p-3:30p 1:45p-3:15p Hawaiian Man North of the 1:45p-3:30p 2:00 The Crash 2:00p-3:15p 2:00 Sun 2:00p-3:30p Reel Paniolo O GMO Pilgrimage of 2:15p-3:45p Silver of the Sea Paradise Found 2:30 Hawai'i OMG Grace 2:30 Miss South Sons of Hawai'i Serendipity Pacific Hot Water 3:00 3:00 Q&A 3:00p-5:00p Q&A 3:30 3:30p-5:15p 3:30p-5:00p 3:30p-5:00p 3:30 Snows of the Nile Hula Sea of Rock Tim McCullough Preservation 3:45p-5:00p 4:00 Sine Qua Non 4:00p-5:00p More Slide 4:00 4:00p-5:15p Society Plastic 4:00p-5:00p Q&A Voyager Exhibit Than Presentation Energy Paradise 4:30 Good Morning Opening Honey 4:30 Excelerator Gary Young Miyazaki Blessing Ocean Frontiers Q&A 5:00 5:00 Sunset Break Sunset Break 5:30 5:30
6:00 6:00p-8:15p 6:00 6:00p-7:45p 6:00p-8:30p 6:00p-7:15p Queenie:Spirit 6:15p-7:30p 6:30 of a Dancer 6:30p-8:15p 6:30 Brothers Shining Chasing Ice 6:45p-8:00p 6:45p-8:45p Cazimero Night Gasland, 7:00 Plastic Bird of Paradise Alison's The Endless 7:00 Part II Paradise Adventures: Summer Q&A 7:30 Blue Duck Station 7:30 Q&A 7:30p-8:15p Q&A Q&A North of the Sun 8:00 Q&A Lost Island of the Q&A 8:00 8:00p-9:30p 8:00p-9:45p Firewalkers Queenie: Paradise Found Q&A 8:30 8:30p-10:00p Q&A 8:30p-9:45p 8:30 Spirit of a Dancer 8:30p-10:00p 8:45p-10:00p Brothers Nā Kamalei: Hot Water 8:45p-10:00p Finding Joe 9:00 GMO Nā Kamalei: 9:00p-10:00p Cazimero 9:00 Men of Hula Alison Gannet: A OMG Men of Hula What If Q&A MoveShake Story 9:30 Questions We Ask Q&A 9:30 Q&A North of the Sun Red Gold Q&A 10:00 10:00
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Saturday saturday, jaN 4 Sunday sunday, jaN 5 Fairmont Mauna Kea Parker Kahilu HPA Gates Fairmont Parker Kahilu HPA Gates Ballroom Garden Room 8:00 8:00 8:15-9:15a 8:15-9:15a 8:30 8:30 BREAKFAST TALKS BREAKFAST TALKS 9:00 9:00
9:30a-10:30a 9:30a-11:15a 9:30a-11:15a 9:30a-11:00a 9:30 9:30a-11:00am 9:30 9:45a-11:15a 9:45a-11:15a 9:45a-11:30a The Hero's Paradise Found Journey Lady B's Jane's Journey The Last Surfing the 10:00 10:00 The Heart The Last Workshop The Coral Reef Mountain Fifties 10:30 and Ocean The Crash Alan Cohen 10:30 The Sea Reel 10:45a-12:15p Q&A 11:00 11:00 Silver of the Sea 11:15a-12:45p 11:30 11:30a-1:00p 11:30a-1:15p 11:30 11:30a-1:15p 11:30a-12:45p Miss South Gregg Treinish: A Shining 11:45a-1:15p Ocean Frontiers Energy Excelerator Pacific noon MoveShake Story Night noon Botso Dawn Lippert Q&A Power Paths Waimea Community TBA Snows of the 12:30 Chorus 12:30 12:30p-2:00p Snows of the Nile Nile Q&A Waimea Consort 1:00 Q&A 1:00 More Than 1:00p-3:00p 1:00p-2:15p 1:15p-3:00p Honey Q&A Alison's Plastic 1:30 What If 1:30p-3:15p 1:30p-2:45p 1:30 Adventures: Paradise Questions We Ask Student 1:45p-3:00p Blue Duck Station 2:00 Red Gold Maverick Film 2:00 Q&A Q&A Moments Block 2:15p-3:45p Chasing Lost Island of the 2:30 Q&A 2:30 Ice Firewalkers 2:30p-4:00p Groundswell GMO Q&A 3:00 Q&A 3:00 OMG Silver of the Sea 3:15p-4:30p 3:15p-5:15p 3:30 3:30p-5:00p 3:30 Sea of Rock 3:30p-5:30p Ocean Frontiers TBA Questions We Ask What If 4:00 TBA 4:00 4:00p-5:15p Sine Qua Non Hawaiians Q&A Journey 4:15p-5:30p 4:30 4:30 Reflecting Silver of the Sea From Islands of Spirit Zanskar Life 5:00 Taste of the Island 5:00 Q&A Snows of the Nile 5:30 5pm Q&A Q&A Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Lu'au Grounds 5:30 Sunset Break 6:00 Mauna Kea Resort 6:00p-7:45p 6:00p-7:45p 6:00p-7:45p 6:00 6:30 Redwater Café Sushi Rock Paniolo O Paradise Found Finding 6:30 7:00 Big Island Brewhaus Hawai'i Joe Gill's Lanai 7:00 Hot Water 7:30 All About Chocolate Palani French Bakers 7:30 Q&A Q&A 8:00
8:00 8:00p-9:45p 8:00p-9:45p 8:00p-10:30p 8:30 What If 8:30 Questions We Ask The Crash 9:00 Red Gold Reel Gasland, Part II 9:00 9:30
9:30 Groundswell 10:00
10:00 Q&A
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Morning Activities
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Join fellow festival attendees from 7 to 8 am on Saturday, Jan 4 and Sunday, Jan 5 for sunrise yoga with instructor Pascale Fasciano. Classes meet at the upper lawn by the lū‛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.
Kawaihae Canoe Club The Kawaihae Canoe Club was formed in 1972 by a group of athletic and civic- minded individuals from Waimea and has been instrumental to the revival Courtesy of Anna Ranch of the ancient Hawaiian tradition of outrigger canoe racing on the Big Island. Sun Jan 5 The club’s dedication to promoting waimea Zach Weisberg and perpetuating outrigger canoe Mauna Kea Garden Room Bud Browne Archives breakfast talks paddling brings participants ranging in Join Sine Qua Non producer and The Anna Ranch Heritage Center age from 10 to 80. Hawai‛i’s official Inertia founder Zach Weisberg for a Join Bud Browne’s archive director Anna team sport challenges kids by giving Start your day with light fare, coffee behind-the-scenes look at the making Trent Moore as she shares a behind-the- them a sense of direction and discipline. and compelling conversation. Breakfast of the film, plus stories and discussion scenes look at the history, legacy and Waimea Ocean Film Festival Talks are from 8:15 to 9:15 am. Breakfast about the world of surf journalism today. stories behind Browne’s films. Talk locations are the Garden Room at attendees are invited to join Kawaihae Canoe Club in Kawaihae Harbor on the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and at Anna Dawn Lippert Sat Jan 4 Friday, Jan 3 from 6:15 to 7:15 am and Ranch Heritage Center in Waimea. Mauna Kea Garden Room Saturday, Jan 4 from 7 to 8 am to learn Buildings and transportation systems Hula Preservation Society how to paddle an outrigger canoe. represent the two largest elements Fri Jan 3 Anna Ranch Heritage Center Participation is limited. Please sign up of our built infrastructure and are Join Hula Preservation Society Director at the Hospitality Desk at Kahilu Theater responsible for most of the energy Josh Fox Maile Loo, along with Queenie Dowsett, by 5 pm the evening prior. Participants we use, with buildings accounting for Anna Ranch Heritage Center Pua Case and others, for a discussion should arrive 15 minutes early. Join Oscar-nominated filmmaker Josh about legendary Kumu Hula ‛Iolani approximately 40% of the energy we Fox for a discussion about the culture Luahine. use overall. Join Energy Excelerator and ethics of sustainable energy, versus leader and WiRE founder Dawn Lippert extraction technologies, and the Angela Sun for a discussion about new approaches ethics and ideals of moving towards a Mauna Kea Garden Room to these systems that focus on creating sustainable future based on renewable Join filmmaker and sports news smarter, human-centric buildings that and clean energy sources. Josh will talk personality Angela Sun for a behind- are not only more efficient, but are also about the Delaware River Basin model, the-scenes look at the making of Plastic healthier and more comfortable. Lippert with its deep roots in community Paradise and her initial interest and also discusses some of the companies development and sustainability. involvement with the issue. that are revisiting our traditional notions of buildings and mobility. Pascale Fasciano at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. © Josh Fletcher
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schedule January 6-10, 2014
mon JAN 6 tue jan 7 wed jan 8 thu jan 9 fri jan 10
9:30 9:30a-11:45a 9:45a-11:15a Journey 9:45a-11:30a 9:45a-11:15a 10:00 From The Zanskar Jane's More 10:30 Last Ocean Q&A Journey Than Honey Rites of 11:00 Passage Intro 11:30 11:30a-12:30p Q&A 11:30a-1:15p Ocean Miss South noon Frontiers noon-1:30p noon-1pm Pacific © Josh Fletcher World Wide Q&A 12:30 The Heart Voyage Good Morning 12:45p-2:30p and The Sea Slideshow Miyazaki wayfinding 1:00 Sea of Rock Russia Join Chad Kālepa Baybayan and Makali‛i Captain Chadd Questions We Ask ‛Onihi Paishon for a Wayfinding Skill Set presentation at 1:30 1:30 Sine Qua Non 1:30p-3:15p 1:30p-3:00p Silver of the Sea 1:45p-3:15p Plastic pm on Thursday, Jan 9. The presentation, in a portable full 2:00 Snows of the Nile The Paradise dome theatre provided by ‛Imiloa Astronomy Center, will Tim McCullough Crash be in the Ballroom adjacent to the film showings. Seating is 2:30 Slideshow Reel Silver of the Sea limited. 2:45p-4:45p 3:00 Q&A Sons of 3:15p-5:00p 3:30 Hawaii 3:30p-5:00p 3:30p-4:45p world wide voyage slide show Brothers The Join Makali‛i Captain Chadd ‛Onihi Paishon for a slide show Keepers of Cazimero 4:00 Endless and discussion about Hōkūle‛a’s World Wide Voyage. The the Flame Summer slide show will be presented on Jan 9 at noon. 4:30 Q&A Q&A Q&A Q&A 5:00 Sunset Break hualalai¯ silent auction 5:30 A silent auction will be held as a fun addition to the week, 6:00 6:00p-7:45p 6:00p-7:45p with unique and special items from the island to bid on. The auction opens the evening of Jan 6 at 6 pm and closes on 6:30 6:30p-8:15p 6:30p-7:30p Shining Paradise Found Jan 10 at 6 pm. Years of Night 6:45p-9:00p 7:00 Li'a: Legacy of a Living Hot Hawaiian Man Dangerously Water Queenie: four seasons closing night 7:30 Q&A Spirit of a Dancer 7:45p-9:30p reception 8:00 Q&A 8:00p-10:00p 8:00p-10:00p Bird of Paradise Botso Alison's Jan 10 at 5 pm in Hoku Ampitheatre 8:30 8:30p-10:00p Gasland, Adventures: Join us as we bid Aloha to our filmmakers and special guests Part II Blue Duck Station Q&A and head into our closing night film. Reception includes 9:00 TBA Q&A island fare prepared by Four Seasons chefs. Purchase tickets Q&A Lost Island of the in advance through the festival office or at the festival 9:30 Firewalkers Q&A Hospitality Desk. Availability is limited at the door. 10:00
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“The art of wayfinding includes a vast knowledge of astronomy, ocean sciences, meteorology, environmental science and cultural perspectives, integrated in an understanding of how the environment around you works; studying these disciplines helps to organize my surroundings in the open ocean.”
-Navigator Chad KĀlepa Baybayan
He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above; A Navigation Starter
Join Navigator Chad Kālepa Baybayan, Chad Kālepa Baybayan is the © Josh Fletcher Makali‛i Captain Chadd ‛Onihi Paishon navigator in residence at the ‛Imiloa and the ‛Imiloa Astronomy Center for Astronomy Center of Hawai‛i, four seasons an interactive session that introduces developing curricula and materials Wed Jan 8 participants to the basic skill set essential that engage people of all ages in the breakfast talks to the practice of wayfinding, the oceanic indigenous art of celestial wayfinding. Eddie and Myrna Kamae art of non-instrument navigation. ‛Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‛i, Join Director and Producer Eddie and With material and a portable dome a part of the University of Hawai‛i at Start your day with coffee, pastries Myrna Kamae as they share stories from provided by ‛Imiloa, view the Hawaiian Hilo, opened its doors on February 20, and compelling conversation. Breakfast the making of their films as well as the navigational starlines and how they are 2006. The $28 million, 40,000-square- Talks are from 8:15 to 9:15 am in Moana iconic group, Sons of Hawai‛i, which tracked in the night sky. Orient yourself foot, state-of-the-art exhibition and Terrace above ‛Ulu Ocean Grill. Eddie has led for over 50 years. to the four cardinal directions on a planetarium complex is located above traditional star compass, learn the star the UH-Hilo campus on nine acres in Tue Jan 7 Thu Jan 9 paths that celestial bodies’ takes as the University of Hawai‛i’s Science and they transit across the sky and how the Technology Park. Morten Lauridsen M. Sanjayan waves and wind pass through the canoe Join National Medal of Arts Recipient Join Dr. M. Sanjayan for a behind-the- when on the open-ocean. Morten Lauridsen for a discussion scenes look at filming Showtime’s multi- Taken from a lesson at a traditional Join Chad Kālepa Baybayan and on “Some Thoughts About Setting part series The Years of Living Dangerously seaside canoe house, participants are Makali‛i Captain Chadd ‛Onihi Words To Music.” The award-winning while on location on Christmas Island, invited to learn about course strategy, Paishon for the Wayfinding Skill Set composer’s life is featured in the Hawai‛i and in the Andes. holding direction by the overhead presentation at noon on Thursday, festival film, Shining Night. star field and determining latitude Jan 2 at The Fairmont Orchid, at 11:15 am on Friday, Jan 3 at The Fri Jan 10 by calibrating the body and mind to the pulse of the night sky. Come learn, Fairmont Orchid, and at 1:30 pm on Thursday, Jan 9 at Four Seasons. Alison’s Adventures explore and discover—as did the early settlers of these islands—that in leaving Space is limited and participants Join Alison Teal and Sarah Lee for a should arrive early. behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the safety of the coastline, you discover Alison’s Adventures. the stars.
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“I do it for the children. They are the future of Hawai‛i. I want them to know the sights, sounds and voices of authentic Hawaiian culture.” Eddie Kamae
In 1971, while on the Big Island 2000, 2006 and 2009. After lacking one researching lyrics to an old Hawaiian high school credit for 65 years, Kamae song, Kamae met Sam Li‛a, who would received a diploma from Farrington change his life. Born in 1881, Sam Li‛a High School in 2010 and an Honorary spent most of his life in and around Doctorate of Humane Letters (PhD) Waipi‛o Valley. Kamae started to record from the University of Hawai‛i at Manoa Sam Li‛a and the voices of other kupuna in 2013. (elders) to chronicle their ways of Kamae’s wife Myrna produced thinking and speaking. all of the documentaries in The After Sam passed away, Kamae began Hawaiian Legacy Series and serves as to envision making a film about Sam executive director of The Hawaiian and his valley, as a way to pay tribute Legacy Foundation. Previously, she Eddie and Myrna Kamae to his friend and mentor. It would be worked in the Office of the Lieutenant about Waipi‛o Valley, the place that Governor in Voter Education and as a had nourished Li‛a’s music, and how his production assistant for the Hawai‛i Born in Honolulu, Eddie Leilani Kamae technique that few had ever achieved music, in turn, celebrated and revealed State Department of Education in is a distinguished singer, musician, on the ‛ukulele. Kamae learned to the spirit of that place. educational television. Myrna Kamae composer and filmmaker, and one of the play the most difficult arrangements, In 1986, while still leading the Sons is also coordinator for The Hawaiian leading figures of the Hawaiian Cultural developing a technique of plucking of Hawai‛i, Kamae began work on Li‛a: Legacy Series educational programs Renaissance, which found an early voice all four strings simultaneously, which The Legacy of a Hawaiian Man, and, in and co-author of the study guides that in Sons of Hawai‛i. This charismatic resulted in a sound that included both so doing, found his second career as accompany these programs. band was formed in the late 1950s by melody and chords at the same time. filmmaker. Together, he and his wife, Kamae, already famous for his ‛ukulele It was not until the late 1950s that producer Myrna Kamae, have devoted virtuoso and the legendary singer Kamae incorporated Hawaiian songs their lives to helping ensure authentic Eddie and Myrna Kamae will answer and slack-key guitar master, Gabby into his performing repertoire. From Hawaiian cultural continuity through questions following the showing of Pahinui. The band became known for its then on he gradually devoted himself The Hawaiian Legacy Series of films, Li‛a: The Legacy of a Hawaiian Man authenticity of feeling and music. Many almost exclusively to traditional to document for posterity the music, at 6:30 pm on Jan 6 at Four Seasons, of its songs were the result of Kamae’s Hawaiian music, remembering the one language, people and places of old Sons of Hawai‛i at 2:45 pm on Jan 7 research into the archives of long- request his father had made of him as a Hawai‛i. at Four Seasons and Keepers of the neglected Hawaiian melodies and lyrics. boy: to sing and play Hawaiian music. In 2005 Kamae collaborated with Flame at 3:30 pm on Jan 8 at Four As a child, Kamae taught himself to Inspired by his teachers—cultural author James D. Houston on his award- Seasons. Also, join Eddie and Myrna play the ‛ukulele after his brother found icons ‛Iolani Luahine, Mary Kawena winning autobiography, Hawaiian Kamae for a Breakfast Talk on an instrument on a city bus and brought Pukui and Pilahi Paki—Kamae began Son: The Life & Music of Eddie Kamae. Wednesday, Jan 8 at Four Seasons. it home. While he loved Hawaiian searching for musical sources that put Kamae’s list of honors comprises music, he focused initially on learning him in touch with the generation of more than 50 awards, including Living classical, Latin, popular and jazz tunes, older Hawaiians who represented the Treasure of Hawai‛i (1979) and Lifetime which required a mastery of theory and last living links with the pre-modern life Achievement Awards in 1992, 1996, of 19th century Hawai‛i.
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Hula Preservation contributions from hula kupuna, these Society archives represent a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable cultural library. Hula Preservation Society (HPS) was Through partnerships with various founded in 2000 by Auntie Nona Beamer organizations, HPS has produced and her hanai daughter Maile Loo, to multi-media presentations, kupuna honor the legacies and teachings of hula live oral history programs, photo elders, and to document the ancient exhibits, several short- and long-format hula types Auntie Nona and senior documentary films and a DVD titled masters from other hula lines had seen, Voices of Our Kupuna. heard of, experienced, and learned in These partnerships include the Mayor’s their lifetimes. Office on Culture & the Arts; Windward Since that time, HPS has conducted Community College; Distinctive Women in oral histories with hula kupuna Hawaiian History Program; Hawai‛i State (elders) from around Hawai‛i and the Art Museum (HiSAM); Maui Arts & Cultural continental United States, documenting Center; Brigham Young University; Waikiki and preserving their knowledge and Improvement Association; Merrie Monarch stories, so that their legacies live on to Festival; Hawai‛i State Foundation on inspire and educate future generations Culture & the Arts, Honolulu Museum of in the authentic culture of Hawai‛i. In Art; ‛Imiloa Astronomy Center; Hawai‛i addition to the video library created Book & Music Festival and the World through these interviews, the HPS Conference on Hula. Kumu Hula ‛Iolani Luahine Archives also contain over 25,000 The public program presented by items related to Hawaiian history and HPS represents an invaluable cultural culture, including video and audio clips, resource and sharing of knowledge. photos, manuscripts, scrapbooks and With documentation of oral histories artifacts. Gathered through personal that otherwise would have been lost, HPS is able to create richly memorable Auntie Queenie on the set of Bird of Paradise © HVS QVD-BOP and educational experiences for those in the audience.
Join Hula Preservation Society for a special tribute to ‛Iolani Luahine featuring digitally preserved historic footage, video segments from HPS’s oral history library with stories of Auntie ‛Iolani from those who knew her, plus sharing and hula from Auntie Queenie Ventura Dowsett. Tribute is at 3 pm on Friday, Jan 3 at Kahilu Theatre. Also join Hula Preservation Society for a Breakfast Talk about ‛Iolani Luahine on Saturday, Jan 4 at Anna Ranch. Aunty Nona Beamer
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Photos courtesy 20th Century Fox
Bird of Paradise
The 1951 20th Century-Fox re-make Young girls chosen for the pool scene Big Island youth ages 8 to 14 who Eugene Burke, Henry Umuiwi, Sam of the film Bird of Paradise staring were Leihlu Kealoha, Keala Victor, also appeared in the movie were Pricilla Kaupo, William J. Sur, Henry Kamai, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget and Louis Rebecca Nathaniel, Clara Osorio, Penny Kuamoo, Walter Ahuna, Doreen Ah Nei, Abraham Ahia, Charles Mahi, Isiah Jourdan was filmed in part on the Big Kamai, Margaret Ah Chin, Jane Rabisa, George Ahuna, Betty Hanohano, Joan Jeremiah, Joseph Papalimu, Manuel Island, along the shoreline village in June Silva and Lorraine Cootey. Johnson, Paula Kualu, Yvonne Johnson, Vincent, Clarench Maluo, Edward Kalapana and at Warm Springs in Puna. Other young women in the movie Luela Ahuna, Une Umuiwi, Maria Kukahiko, Douglas Jeremiah, Paul E.K Rose, who was also known as Prince included Maile Lum Ho, Viola Nuhi, Kuamoo, Mae Kuamoo, Eleanor Kaloi, Silva, Deward Paulo, Joseph Kekaula, Lei Lani and originally from Hilo, also Piilani Fallen, Olga Sniffen, Ella Rosemary Lei Haena, Edward Fafai, Benjamin Moa, Joseph Pacheco, Leui starred in the film and Waimea’s own Chesebro, Mary Hefner, June Spalding, Malcolm Kaliiwoki, Rudy Ai, Melton Ah Kaipo, James Apela, Herbert Ishibashi, Queenie Dowsett played the local lead. Ermadine Kamakea, Violet Sur, Blanche Nee, George Pea, Analani Nahale-a, Tandy Kualii and Henry Kalahiki. Many Big Islanders were chosen to Gomes, Lorraine Ishibashi, Jane Louise Kuamoo, Betty Lou Rodgrigues, A group of older men in the movie appear in the film. Solomon Pa and Sam Medeiros, Charlotte Boskie, Anna Buggie Taylor and Elsom Brown. were Neki Kauhi, Issac Keliipio, Sr., Monsarrat of Hilo had important roles Campbell, Louise John, Charlene Cootey, Young men chosen were Shepard Henry Kahele, Kaipo Liliiehue Laanui while Violet Nathanial had a speaking Barbara Freitas, Betty Lou Rodriguez, and Clement Bray; James and Alex Waipa, Solomon Pa, David Kaaihili, role as the wife of the chief. Emmaline Upchurch, Mary Kuamoo, Lancaster; Kahoalii and David Calles; Edward Robins, Epana Kahaauolopua, Marjorie Murray, who graduated from Kanani Ill, Elisa Osorio, Dorcas Ching, Danny, Albert and Webster Nathaniel; Joseph Lui Papalimu, Louis Kuamoo and Hilo High School in 1948, was chosen as Margaret Whitney, Helen Martin, Harriet Joseph, Edward, Patrick and Harry Tuna Brown. the double for Debra Paget, including Nahale-a, Elizabeth Spalding, Mabel Kalima; Edward Keliipio, David Kaai, all the swimming scenes at Warm Umuiwi, Elizabeth Kahele, Rose Nuhi, Abner M. Kama, Benjamin Kahaka, Information above is re-printed with permission from Wayne Subica, author of Mops & Pops Vol. II, and from Springs. Ted Sumner, who worked at Von Victoria Wright, Harriet Kalama, Amma The Hawai‛i Plantatation Museum, Papaikou. Hamm Young Company in Hilo, was the Payne, Mary Kualii, Adeline Ahuna, stand-in for Jeff Chandler. Carmen Burke and Margaret Kaailihi.
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records. With national media attention, and rave reviews from Time and The New Yorker, a deal was struck with Cinema V as the distributor, with an agreement that both the film and the poster would be shown as they were. The Endless Summer went on to become a worldwide box office hit, grossing over $30 million. Displayed at the New York Museum Photos Copyright 2013 Bruce Brown Films, LLC of Art and the Los Angeles Museum of Art, The Endless Summer poster is considered a work of art in itself. The Endless Summer Graphic artist and illustrator John Van Hamersveld designed the poster to One of the most popular surf films of community halls to great applause. In feature the stars of the movie in high all time, The Endless Summer brought June of 1964, the film was officially contrast silhouette against the magenta a sophisticated mystique to the sport released at the 3,000-seat Santa Monica sun and red beach. of surfing. The film boosted surfing Civic Auditorium, which sold out every popularity and launched the notion of night for a week. Join us as we launch the 50th surf adventure travel, leading surfers Despite its early success, studio Anniversary Tour of The Endless to travel the world in search of their distributors initially rejected the Summer at The Fairmont Orchid, on own perfect wave. Breathtaking visuals, film, believing it lacked a mainstream Jan 2, with the film showing at 6:30 accompanied by a musical score by The audience. Brown and his business pm. To get fans in the groove, The Sandals, mesmerized audiences. One partner, R. Paul Allen, who had Fairmont Orchid is hosting a high- review described the adventure this run ahead arranging the shows and octane Surfing the Sixties reception way: “From the uncharted waters of coordinating publicity during the 1964 at 5 pm. Come as you are, or in your West Africa, to the tropical paradise tour, believed otherwise and spent best sixties rendition, and toast of Tahiti and beyond, these California the next two years trying to prove it. the start of The Endless Summer surfers accomplish in a few months To test the waters, they brought the tour. Tickets should be purchased what most people never do in a lifetime. film to Wichita, Kansas, in the heart in advance. Limited availability at They lived their dream.” of winter, where the film sold out for the door. Completed in 1964, filmmaker Bruce two weeks straight. After blowing the Brown spent much of that year bringing film up to 35mm, they then rented The Endless Summer on tour around the New York’s Kuyps Bay Theatre where country, showing the film at high school the film played to sold out crowds for auditoriums, beach town theatres and a couple of weeks, breaking theatre
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Alison’s Adventures
Local Hawai‛i Preparatory Academy safari across the Rajasthan desert. The Alison works towards the greening of was named one of the top 25 college (HPA) graduate Alison Teal started first time Alison was enrolled in school the surf industry and utilizing products, filmmakers by MTV, and was honored in traveling the world at the age of two was at the age of 7 and the classroom from her surfboards to bikinis and 2010 by Meryl Streep as one of the top months, when her parents took her was situated on the high slopes of the wetsuits, that are manufactured from emerging female artists. skiing in southern Peru. For Alison, it Himalayas in Nepal. sustainable or recycled materials. Alison brings the latest of her was the start of a life of high adventure. Alison’s parents came to the Big Alison attended Hawai‛i Preparatory series of Alison’s Adventures, Blue With world-renowned adventure and Island of Hawai‛i on an assignment Academy (HPA) through high school; Duck Station and Lost Island of the travel photographer David Blehert for a and immediately fell in love with the she then attended the University Firewalkers, to premiere at the Waimea father and naturalist and internationally island. They built their home, Hale Kai, of Southern California (USC) film Ocean Film Festival. acclaimed yoga teacher Deborah Koehn designing it to run entirely off of solar school. After graduating summa cum as a mother, Alison grew up exploring photovoltaic power. Alison credits her laude, Alison created her own film the most remote corners of the planet. father as being one of the pioneers of series, Alison’s Adventures—which she Join Alison Teal and cinematographer In her early years, Alison was “home green living, which he applies to every directs, produces, edits and hosts—in Sarah Lee for discussion following schooled” wherever her parents’ aspect of their life and operation on collaboration with cinematographer and the double feature of Alison’s work took them; the world was her the island, from the use of recycled photographer Sarah Lee. Alison recently Adventures at 6:45 pm on Thursday, classroom. This meant having lessons vegetable oil to power his trucks, to scored the highest PSR (Primitive Jan 2 at HPA Gates, at 1 pm on in unusual settings: sitting under an growing organic fruits and produce in Survival Rating) to date during the Saturday, Jan 4 at HPA Gates and elephant, in a tent during a blizzard on their garden. As a Patagonia athlete Discovery Channel’s highly rated at 8 pm on Thursday, Jan 9 at the flanks of Mt. Everest, or on a camel and an ambassador for Sustainable Surf, survival show, Naked and Afraid. Alison Four Seasons.
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Years of Living Dangerously
Years of Living Dangerously is a rising? Does climate change slowly groundbreaking Showtime documentary or can it be dramatic—like a disaster series exploring the human impact of movie? What are climate models and climate change. This innovative, multi- how do they predict the future? Why part series is a collaboration between is studying the past so important to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and understanding the future? leading national news journalists. These questions are answered Produced by James Cameron, the through first-hand experience in the series comprises multiple segments and field, via a journey that takes Sanjayan is set to air April 2014 on Showtime. from the top of Mauna Loa to the Correspondents for the show include highest glaciers of the Andes, to the Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Arnold coral reefs of the most remote Pacific Schwarzenegger, Jessica Alba, Don atolls and beyond— a journey to not Cheadle, Olivia Munn, Leslie Stahl and just intellectually understand climate © Ami Vitale M. Sanjayan. science, but to actually feel it. The As Sanjayan writes, “climate change segment on Mauna Loa was filmed M. Sanjayan and its accompanying consequences during the 2013 festival, some of which pose a building threat to the natural Sanjayan talked about with attendees Dr. M. Sanjayan is a leading ecologist, Sanjayan regularly contributes and human world. For most people, during his Breakfast Talk last year. speaker, writer and an Emmy-nominated to CBS News’ science, environment climate change remains abstract— This year, Sanjayan shares a segment news contributor focused on the and nature coverage. His report on temporally and physically far away. from his journey to Christmas Island, role of conservation in improving the the ivory wars in Africa received an Yet, the time for prudent action is now. the largest coral atoll in the Pacific, well-being of humans, wildlife and the Emmy nomination for “outstanding What’s interesting about this series is where he dove the reefs with Dr. Kim environment. He is currently filming his investigative journalism.” Additional that these correspondents travel the Cobb, who is trying to understand new TV series, Earth In the Age of Man, story topics include global climate world to reveal the most compelling changes in ocean temperature. which will air on PBS in 2015. He is also change, fire management in the west stories about climate change and its the science correspondent for James and marine debris. consequences as they occur today.” Join Sanjayan for a sneak preview of Cameron’s Years of Living Dangerously, In addition, Sanjayan’s television As the scientist correspondent for Years of Living Dangerously at 6:30 a multi-part Showtime series airing experience includes guest appearances Years of Living Dangerously, Sanjayan’s pm on Tuesday, Jan 7 at Four Seasons, April 2014 that will explore the human on NBC’s Today Show, The Late Show mission is to uncover and see first-hand and also for a Breakfast Talk on impact of climate change. with David Letterman, NBC Nightly the science behind climate change. Thursday, Jan 9 at Four Seasons. As the lead scientist for The News, CNN, Fox News and the BBC. How do we know carbon dioxide is Nature Conservancy, Sanjayan Sanjayan is a sought after speaker travels extensively to research the with recent appearances at TED Global, nexus between saving nature and International Women’s Forum, Aspen Years of Living Dangerously is a groundbreaking Showtime improving the well being of people. Environment Forum, Aspen Ideas His scientific work has been published Festival, Clinton Global Initiative, documentary series exploring the human impact of climate in journals including Science, Nature Google and the Summit Series. He is and Conservation Biology and has a Catto Fellow at the Aspen Institute change. This innovative, multi-part series is a collaboration also received mainstream media and a senior advisor to the Clinton between some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and leading coverage from Vanity Fair, Men’s Global Initiative. Journal, National Geographic Adventure, national news journalists. Outside and The New York Times.
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Angela Sun
As the first Asian-American female host to appear on networks such as ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, the Tennis Channel and Fox Sports—Angela Sun has been breaking boundaries in the world of sports and media for over a decade. Sun currently serves as the host of Yahoo! Sports Minute, which is watched daily by millions of viewers, and hosts the LIVE pre-game show for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Josh Fox In 2011 Sun was nominated for an Emmy award for hosting NBC’s lifestyle luxury Josh Fox is an Academy Award- newsmagazine, LXTV First Look. nominated writer, director and producer She was also one of the faces of of three feature films, several short MTV’s new global venture, MTV (Shackles, Street Kings, A Perfect films and over 25 full-length works for IGGY. Sun hosted “InnerView,” where Getaway), and various commercial and the stage, which have premiered in New she sat down, one-on-one with top print campaigns for companies such as York, Asia and Europe. global figures and trendsetters, as well AT&T, Hewlett Packard and Honda. She Gasland, which Fox wrote, as the MTV IGGY show airing on MTV continues to make guest appearances directed and filmed, premiered at channels worldwide. on Fox Business News Channel, USA the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, As a host and correspondent for Al Today and other media outlets. where it earned the 2010 Special Jury awarded the 2010 Lennon Ono Grant for Gore’s Emmy Award-winning Current Sun recently completed her first Prize for documentary. The film was Peace by Yoko Ono. TV from 2005-2007, Sun produced, shot documentary film, Plastic Paradise, nominated for an Academy Award for Recently, Fox has appeared on The and wrote her own stories. Whether after taking a personal interest in best documentary, nominated for four Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Real discussing women’s status in China, the issue. Sun is also volunteer with Emmys including best documentary, Time with Bill Maher and All In with investigating coffee as a commodity, Boarding House Mentors, teaching at- best writing and best cinematography; Chris Hayes. or looking at terrorism’s affect on risk youth how to surf and snowboard. and awarded the Emmy for best Fox is the founder and producing tourism in Palawan - Sun’s journalistic directing. Gasland was nominated for artistic director of the International sensibilities and news background guide best documentary screenplay by the WOW Company. Join Angela Sun as she answers her storytelling. Writers Guild of America (WGA), and questions following the showing of Sun started her career reporting for also awarded the Environmental Media her filmPlastic Paradise at 6:45 pm “X Center” for The X Games on ESPN2, Association Award for best documentary. Join Josh Fox for a discussion on Thursday, Jan 2 at Parker Theatre, before joining The Tennis Channel in Gasland, Part II, has received the following the showing of Gasland, at 3:45 pm on Friday, Jan 3 at HPA 2009 as anchor of “The Court Report” 2013 best documentary award from the Part II at 6 pm on Friday, Jan 3 at Gates and at 1 pm on Saturday, Jan news program. She covered the 2010 Environmental Media Association and HPA Gates and at 8 pm on Saturday, 4 at The Fairmont Orchid. Also join Winter Olympics for Yahoo! Sports and Josh Fox and the Gasland Films will Jan 4 at HPA Gates. Fox will also Angela Sun for a Breakfast Talk on GrindTV live from Vancouver. be awarded the Cinema Eye Hell Yeah host a Breakfast Talk on Friday, Jan Saturday, Jan 4 at the Mauna Kea In addition to hosting, Sun has award in January, 2014. Fox was also 3 at Anna Ranch. Garden Room. appeared in several feature films
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Lisette Marie Flanary Morten Lauridsen/ Shining Night As an independent filmmaker and hula dancer, Lisette Marie Flanary creates documentary films that celebrate Acclaimed a “heartening rarity” by a modern renaissance of hula and the Wall Street Journal, the film of Hawaiian culture. She is the writer, composer Morten Lauridsen’s life producer and director of Lehua Films entitled, Shining Night: A Portrait and her award-winning documentaries, of Composer Morten Lauridsen, is American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai‛i, directed by Michael Stillwater, an Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula, and award-winning songwriter, recording Since 1993, Lauridsen’s music has One Voice were broadcast nationally Assistant Professor of Indigenous/Native artist and filmmaker. increased in international popularity on public television and shown in film Creative Media at the Academy for Morten Lauridsen’s works have been and by the end of the century was festivals around the world. Creative Media in the fall of 2011. recorded on more than 200 CDs, five acknowledged as the most frequently Flanary is a graduate of New York of which have received Grammy Award performed American choral composer. University’s Tisch School of the Arts nominations, including O Magnum Lauridsen has been described as in Film and Television Production and Join Lisette Marie Flanary for a Mysterium by the Tiffany Consort, A having “spent his lifetime listening in received her Master of Fine Arts in discussion following the showing of Company of Voices by Conspirare, Sound deep silence to the ‘inner song,’ bringing Creative Writing at the New School Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula at 8:45 The Bells by The Bay Brass and two forth choral works of radiant beauty for University. pm on Thursday, Jan 2 at Kahilu all-Lauridsen discs entitled Lux Aeterna the world to hear and sing.” Musicologist Having lived in New York City for over Theatre and at 8 pm on Friday, Jan 3 by the Los Angeles Master Chorale led Nick Strimple says Lauridsen’s “probing, 20 years, Flanary joined the faculty at Parker Theatre. by Paul Salamunovich and Polyphony serene work contains an elusive and at the University of Hawai‛i as the with the Britten Sinfonia conducted by indefinable ingredient which leaves the Stephen Layton. impression that all the questions have On the heels of being named been answered...” an “American Choral Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts, Join Morten Lauridsen for showings Lauridsen received the prestigious Tom Walters of Shining Night at 6 pm on Friday, National Medal of Arts in 2007 from the Jan 3 at Kahilu Theatre, at 11:30 am Tom Walters is an award-winning Films Inc., Walters also worked as a president in a White House ceremony. on Sunday, Jan 5 at Kahilu Theatre, director and producer with more television specialist for the State of He was cited “for composition of and at 6 pm on Wednesday, Jan 8 at than 50 internationally distributed California. radiant choral works combining musical Four Seasons. Morten Lauridsen will educational and documentary films to In 2013, Walters completed the beauty, power and spiritual depth that also host a Breakfast Talk on Tuesday, his credit. His feature length documentary BOTSO, have thrilled audiences worldwide.” Jan 7 at Four Seasons. clients have The Teacher from Tbilisi. Lauridsen chaired the composition included the department at the University of Southern National Arthritis California (USC) Thornton School of Morten Lauridsen will accompany Foundation, Join Tom Walters for discussion Music from 1990–2002 and founded the members of Waimea Community Cengage following the showing of Botso at school’s advanced studies program in film Chorus and Waimea Consort in Learning, Dupont 9:45 am on Friday, Jan 3 at HPA scoring. He has held residencies as guest performing a few of his pieces after and many others. Gates, at 11:30 am on Saturday, Jan composer/lecturer at over 70 universities the showing of Shining Night on The founder and 4 at Kahilu Theatre and at 7:45 pm and has received honorary doctorates Sunday, Jan 5 at Kahilu Theatre and president of on Tuesday, Jan 7 at Four Seasons. from Oklahoma State University, on Wednesday, Jan 8 at Four Seasons. Cinema House Westminster Choir College and King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Edgy Lee and Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, with producer Phil Arnone and editor After working in the entertainment D.C; the Asian Art Museum in San Robert Pennybacker Lawrence Pacheco. The subjects of these industry in Los Angeles, Punahou graduate Francisco; the Autry National Center documentaries have included Hokule’a – Edgy Lee returned home to O‛ahu to and the Museum of Natural History in Robert Pennybacker, an honors graduate Passing the Torch, Eddie Aikau - A establish FilmWorks Pacific and produce Los Angeles. of the University of Southern California Hawaian Hero, Duke Kahanamoku - Hawai‛i-themed and based documentaries. In 2008 Lee founded PacificNetwork. (USC) School of Cinema and Television, Hawai‛i’s Soul and IZ - The Man Behind Lee’s films include Papakolea – tv, a Hawai‛i and Oceania-themed has worked in Hawai‛i’s television The Music, among others. Story of Hawaiian Land; Paniolo O Internet television network. industry for more than 30 years. Pennybacker also worked in Hawai‛i – Cowboys of the Far West; In 2007, Robert joined PBS Hawai‛i collaboration with Eddie and Myrna Waikiki – In the Wake of Dreams and as vice president of creative services, Kamae to write Keepers of the Flame, The Hawaiians – Reflecting Spirit. These Join Edgy Lee for discussion where he now serves as executive which the Kamaes directed and produced. films were made in the hope of bringing following showing of Paniolo O producer of Learning Initiatives. A a deeper awareness of the Hawaiian Hawai‛i at 1:45 pm on Thursday, Jan primary responsibility for Pennybacker culture to the national public. Warner 2 at Kahilu Theatre and at 6 pm on is producing HIKI NŌ, the nation’s Join Robert Pennybacker and Brothers Records released a companion Saturday, Jan 4 at Parker Theatre. first statewide student news network; Phil Arnone to answer questions soundtrack CD to the film Paniolo She will be joined by Ku‛ulei and he has overseen production of the following the showing of Brothers O Hawai‛i. The CD was produced Sonny Keakealani and others. program since its launch in February of Cazimero at 8:30 pm on Thursday, by former Warner Brothers Records Also, join Edgy Lee for discussion 2011. Pennybacker was also the series Jan 2 at The Fairmont Orchid and President Jim Norman with Hawaiian following the showing of The producer for the Pacific Islanders in at 6:15 pm on Friday, Jan 3 at kumu hula and performer Nani Lim. Hawaiians – Reflecting Spirit at 4 pm Communications/PBS Hawai‛i series Parker Theatre. Also join Robert Lee’s films have premiered at the on Saturday, Jan 4 at Parker Theatre. Pacific Heartbeat, which aired on 85 Pennybacker for a discussion about Smithsonian Institution, City Museum percent of the nation’s PBS stations. HIKI NŌ during the Student Film Over the past 10 years, Robert has Block at 1:30 pm on Sunday, Jan 5 written more than a dozen biographical at HPA, where he will share sample documentaries for KGMB in collaboration clips of the program. Anna Trent Moore was born and raised Anna Trent Moore in Makaha, on the island of O‛ahu. She is the daughter of legendary big wave surfer Buzzy Trent and the owner Phil Arnone islands, plus the people and heroes and curator of the Bud Browne Film most beloved by Hawai‛i. These Archives. The largest historical surfing include Hokule’a – Passing the Torch, library of its kind, the collection Phil Arnone established himself early in Eddie Aikau - A Hawaian Hero, Duke encompasses the growth of big wave his career as a producer and director Kahanamoku - Hawai‛i’s Soul and IZ - surfing in the ’50s through the short of high quality television programming The Man Behind The Music. board evolution in the ’70s. Anna while working for KGMB in Honolulu. This year, Arnone brings Brothers has written two books and numerous More recently, Cazimero to the Waimea Ocean Film articles on surf history, plus produced he directed and Festival. the film, Wake unto Blue. produced a series of exceptional, made- Join Phil Arnone for discussion after for-TV documentaries, Join Anna Trent Moore for discussion the showing of Brothers Cazimero in conjunction with following the showing of Surfing the at 8:30 pm on Thursday, Jan 2 at KGMB, and written by Fifties at 9:30 am on Saturday, Jan The Fairmont Orchid, at 6:15 pm on Robert Pennybacker. 4 at The Fairmont Orchid, and for a Friday, Jan 3 at Parker Theatre and The documentaries Breakfast Talk on Sunday, Jan 5 at at 3:30 pm on Thursday, Jan 9 at feature the history Anna Ranch. Four Seasons. and culture of the
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The Energy Excelerator
The Energy Excelerator is a startup to success were also fundamental to program of the Pacific International realizing rapid growth and deployment. Center for High Technology Research From these conversations, the Energy (PICHTR) that is dedicated to solving Excelerator was created in January the world’s energy problems, starting 2013. In August 2013, the Navy’s Office in Hawai‛i. The program helps of Naval Research tripled funding for innovative energy companies succeed the program to $30 million; these funds in Hawai‛i and the Asia Pacific region are now being investing in Hawai‛i’s with non-dilutive funding and strategic most promising seed- and growth-stage relationships in an ideal economic energy innovation startups. environment that supports their long- term growth. In 2008, the state of Hawai‛i adopted Join Dawn Lippert for a discussion Dawn Lippert/The Energy Excelerator one of the most aggressive renewable about The Energy Excelerator and energy standards in the country by talk on “Investing in a Cleaner setting a goal of 70 percent clean Future” at 11:30 am on Saturday, Dawn Lippert joined The Pacific chart a path to 70% clean energy by energy by 2030. PICHTR began working Jan 4 at HPA Gates and for a International Center for High 2030. Previously, Lippert worked with to support energy innovation in Hawai‛i, Breakfast Talk on Sun, Jan 5 in the Technology Research (PICHTR) in 2009 Hawai‛i County to develop the island’s with $9 million of support from the U.S. Mauna Kea Garden Room. as a senior manager with the Hawai‛i sustainable energy plan in conjunction Department of Energy. Renewable Energy Development with government and community Feedback from PICHTR-invested Venture (HREDV). There she serves as partners. companies, however, made it clear the technical contact for HREDV’s co- Lippert received her B.A. in that in addition to funding, strategic investment projects and is responsible Environmental Studies from Yale relationships to accelerate the path for coordinating HREDV’s business University and her Master’s Degree training, outreach and partnership in Environmental Management from development programs. In addition, the Yale School of Forestry and Lippert leads the Energy Excelerator, Environmental Studies. She is also a and founded WiRE (Women in LEED-accredited professional. Her “I often think about something I saw while living in India: women Renewable Energy), a not-for-profit international experience includes organization with over 150 members The Energy and Resources Institute making charcoal in little blackened huts to provide fuel for designed to build technical expertise, in New Delhi where she worked to factories in rural India. After seeing how oil and fossil fuels impact trust and relationships that advance commercialize biomass technologies in clean energy transformation. rural areas and the Fish and Wildlife real lives in places where people don’t have many choices, I’ve Prior to joining (PICHTR), Lippert Service implementing sea turtle come to believe that we have a responsibility to produce as much was a senior consultant with Booz Allen conservation projects in Vieques, Hamilton in Washington D.C, where she Puerto Rico. of our needs locally as possible, and to ensure that our way of provided management consulting to Lippert is a member of the 2012 life is, to the extent practicable, sustained by our local resources. the Department of Energy (DOE) on a Class of Pacific Century Fellows and Hawai‛i’s abundant natural resources—including talent and variety of clean energy projects. This was named one of Hawai‛i Business included the Hawai‛i Clean Energy Magazine’s 20 for the Next 20: People innovation—make this kind of locally powered future attainable.” Initiative, a partnership between DOE to Watch in 2012. and the State of Hawai‛i created to Dawn Lippert, The Energy Excelerator
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The New York Times, Esquire, Forbes, Alan Cohen, M.A., is the author of 24 changed person. The film relates how Nylon, The Surfer’s Journal, O, The popular inspirational books and CD’s, Campbell’s work is still essential in Oprah Magazine, Duke Magazine, including the best-selling The Dragon today’s modern world, and how “The The Huffington Post and many other Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the award- Hero’s Journey” explains the narrative publications. Based in Venice, CA, winning A Deep Breath of Life, and the embedded in the universal hero’s story, Weisberg recently completed his MBA at classic Are You as Happy as Your Dog? He for how to live a fully realized life. USC Marshall School of Business. is a contributing writer for the New York Cohen will facilitate a workshop Times #1 bestselling series Chicken Soup titled Mastering Your Hero’s Journey. for the Soul, and his books have been In the workshop, Cohen will work Join Zach Weisberg for discussion translated into two dozen languages. with audience members to apply the following the film Sine Qua Non His work has been featured on Oprah. understanding gained from The Hero’s at 11:45 am on Thursday, Jan 2 at com and in USA Today, The Washington Journey to their own lives. Zach Weisberg The Fairmont Orchid, at 3:30 pm Post and 101 Top Experts. Alan’s radio Thursday, Jan 2 at Parker Theatre, program, Get Real, is broadcast weekly at 3:15 pm on Saturday Jan 4 at Join Alan Cohen for discussion Zach Weisberg is the publisher and on Hay House Radio, and his monthly Kahilu Theatre. Also join Zach following the showing of Finding editor-in-chief of The Inertia. A column From the Heart is featured in Weisberg for a Breakfast Talk on Joe at 8:30 pm on Friday, Jan 3 at former editor at Surfer Magazine, magazines internationally. Friday Jan 3 at the Mauna Kea The Fairmont Orchid and at 6 pm on Weisberg’s work has been featured in Cohen is a frequent keynote speaker Garden Room. and seminar leader for professional Saturday, Jan 4 at HPA Gates. Also meetings in the fields of personal join Alan Cohen for a workshop on growth, inspiration, holistic health, The Hero’s Journey at 9:30 am on human relations and achievement of Sunday, Jan 5 at The Mauna Kea work/life balance. He has appeared Garden Room. Student Film Block on national radio and television shows around the nation. © Monique Feil Many readers and seminar In a trial program this year, the Waimea Schools-Kea‛au’s film class are participants have reported that Cohen’s Ocean Film Festival hosts a Student Film participating by showing a film shared teachings have brought them deep Block, in partnership with Centers for by Media Arts teacher, Nader Shehata, encouragement and empowerment, Ocean Sciences Education Excellence M.Ed. And, the HPA Digital Documentary and inspired them to achieve new (COSEE). COSEE is a collaborative class will present a piece produced for levels of success in their personal and network of centers serving Hawai‛i HIKO NO. professional lives. and the Pacific Islands. It connects Robert Pennybacker, producer of Author Wayne W. Dyer distinguishes ocean research and teaching with Hawaii Public Television’s HIKI NO, Cohen by saying, “Alan Cohen is one traditional knowledge to facilitate will introduce the Student Film Block of my all-time favorite authors and active engagement in stewardship by all and talk about HIKI NO, sharing some speakers. He delivers from the heart ocean users. COSEE was established as a program examples. HIKI NO is an award- with common sense and great humor. I coordinated mechanism through which winning statewide, multi-media, student love his work and I want everyone to ocean education practices might flow news show that airs weekly on PBS read and apply his message.” nationally. Hawai‛i. Cohen joins the festival as a featured This fall, COSEE conducted a Student presenter in Finding Joe, which Ocean Film Contest with the winning Join Robert Pennybacker, Nader navigates the stages of what Joseph films selected to show in the Student Shehata and others for the Student Campbell called “The Hero’s Journey” Film Block. In addition, Kamehameha Flm Block at 1:30 pm on Jan 5 at the process by which an individual HPA Gates Theatre. faces his challenges, fears, dragons, and battles before returning home as a
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Moana Center flagship store, with a Publications McCullough’s work has fitting tribute to the Hawaiian Watermen appeared within include the following: of the ‘60s. The museum quality exhibit featured the early black and white Magazines & Periodicals surfing and historical photographs Surfer Magazine taken by McCullough. Fred Hemmings, Surfing Magazine Conrad Canha, Jock Sutherland, Jimmy Surfing Illustrated Lucas and Kiki Spangler are just a few Forecast Outrigger Canoe Club of the iconic surfers featured in the The Surfers Journal exhibit. Individual period surfboards Standup Surf & Sail Journal and a balsawood racing paddleboard accompany the photos. Longboard Magazine McCullough’s 1960’s photography Nalu Magazine Japan continues to be popular and he still The Surfers Path Magazine U.K. enjoys seeing his images in contemporary Surfing World Magazine Australia articles, features and books associated with the period. The most recent of Books
© Tim McCullough these, The Ultimate Guide to Vintage “The Soul Of Surfing Is Hawaiian,” Surfboards & Collectables by Jim Fred Hemmings, Sports Enterprises Winniman, was published in the fall “Eddie Would Go, The Story of Eddie Tim McCullough of 2013. McCullough’s passion for Aikau-Hawaiian Hero,” Stuart Coleman, photography remains a driving force in Mind Raising Press The photography of Tim McCullough breaks of Ala Moana, Portlock and his life today. From his home studio in takes us back to the 1960’s—the era of Yokohama. Waimea, McCullough is currently working “Da Bull, Life Over The Edge,”Greg Noll The Endless Summer, when filmmakers McCullough’s images burst across the to archive his early surf photography by & Andrea Gabbard, Bangtail Press Bruce Brown and Bud Browne were both pages of surf magazines and posters of converting traditional film-based content “Greg Noll, The Art Of The Surfboard,” making their classic surf films. the time, including Surfer Magazine, to digital files, with the idea of creating Drew Kampion, Gibbs Smith It was then that a teenage Surfing Magazine, Surfing Illustrated, a website around the collection in the “Miki Dora, All For A Few Perfect McCullough began capturing images of The Surfers Journal, Longboard future. Accompanying these images Waves,” David Rensin, Harper the legendary watermen who surfed Magazine, The Surfers Path Magazine will be others taken during the many “Miki Dora,” Alain Gardinier, Atlantica Hawai‛i’s shores, using a Pentax camera and Surfing World Magazine Australia. journeys he and his wife have taken over France he earned after working three summers After growing up surrounded by and the years. as a deckhand. Under the mentorship working in his father Reyn McCullough’s “All Those Summers, Memories of noted photographers Francis Lee and companies, McCullough assumed Of Surfings� Golden Age,” Michael Larry Hata, McCullough’s fascination leadership of the Reyn’s and Reyn Spooner Join Tim McCullough for a slide show McPherson, Watermark Press and discussion about his 1960s surf with surf photography propelled him to family businesses in the late 1970s, taking “Surf Is Where You Find It,” Jerry Lopez, photography at 3:30 pm on Thursday, spend the next five years documenting the helm as president and CEO. Over Patagonia Books the surfing seasons. From September to the next 30 years McCullough immersed Jan 2 at The Fairmont Orchid and at “Vans Off The Wall, Stories Of Sole From April, when the giant northerly winter himself in the businesses, cultivating and 1:45 pm on Wednesday, Jan 8 at Four Vans Originals,” Doug Palladini, Abrams NY swells rolled in, McCullough positioned expanding into creative new products, Seasons. Tim McCullough also leads himself between Haleiwa, Sunset, supported by a diverse customer base the Q&A for The Endless Summer “Legends Of Surfing, The Greatest Pipeline and Waimea—and at Makaha for eager for innovative products. following showings at 6:30 pm on Surfriders From Duke Kahanamoku to the International Surfing Championships McCullough carried his love of the Thursday, Jan 2 at The Fairmont Kelly Slater,” Duke Boyd, MVP Books In December. During the spring, summer ocean and deep respect for Hawai‛i’s Orchid and at 3:15 pm on Friday, “The Ultimate Guide To Vintage and early fall, the photographer’s watermen with him through his career Jan 10 at Four Seasons. Surfboards & Collectables,” Jim attention shifted to the southerly facing and in 2004, Reyn’s renovated its Ala Winniman, US Vintage Surf Auction
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© Sarah Anderson © Steve Campbell Voyager Exhibit H ¯o k¯u le’a World Wide Voyage continuing the journey west, following Makali‛i Captain Chadd Paishon will lead the sun, with the target of reaching a certain percentage of the passages The Voyager Exhibit showcases the The Voyager Exhibit includes the Indian Ocean in 2015. The vessels for the World Wide Voyage and Na World Wide Voyage of Hōkūle‛a and will interactive displays that detail life as plan to spend time on both sides of the Kalai Wa‛a is training crew members on include an 8x13-foot map of the world, a voyager aboard a canoe, including Atlantic in 2016, before continuing on Makali‛i that will sail with other crew showing Hōkūle‛a’s planned route. It living conditions aboard Hōkūle‛a; to the Pacific for Hōkūle‛a’s return to members from Hawai‛i and the world on also features interactive exhibits an interactive map of the voyage; Hawai‛i in 2016 or 2017. both vessels. about life on the canoe and the work as well as information on the latest The mission of Hōkūle‛a’s World Wide of National Geographic photographer canoe technology found in Hikianalia, Voyage is “to navigate toward a healthy Nicholas DeVore III, taken on Hōkūle‛a’s Hōkūle‛a’s companion canoe for the and sustainable future for ourselves, our Join members of Na Kalai Wa‛a and first voyage in 1976. World Wide Voyage. Designed as a home – the Hawaiian Islands – and our others for the opening blessing In June 2013, Hōkūle‛a, the Pacific’s Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hikianalia Island Earth through voyaging and new of the Voyager Exhibit at 4 pm on first voyaging canoe in modern times, is equipped with a state of the art ways of learning.” Thursday, Jan 2 at Kahilu Theatre. began her Mālama Honua World solar electric engine - a modern vessel The Voyager Exhibit is hosted by The exhibit will be open during Wide Voyage (sponsored by Hawaiian operated by traditional wisdom. Na Kalai Wa‛a, the organization that festival hours for the remainder of Airlines) with a community celebration The Mālama Honua World Wide runs the voyaging canoe Makali‛i the Jan 2-5 festival period. in Hilo, Hawai‛i. Since then Hōkūle‛a Voyage is expected to take over three on the Big Island. To support the has traveled around the state sharing years as Hōkūle‛a and Hikianalia World Wide Voyage, Na Kalai Wa‛a is voyaging traditions and resource circumnavigate the globe, sharing providing teacher training programs Join Makali‛i Captain Chadd Paishon management with the people of Hawai‛i. Hawai‛i’s canoe culture and practices of and educational opportunities to share for a slide show presentation about In this first stage of the voyage, over sustainability along the way. Hōkūle‛a voyaging and the message of he wa‛a the World Wide Voyage at 12:45 pm 10,000 Hawai‛i school children were will embark on the Pacific leg of her he moku he moku he wa‛a (the canoe on Friday, Jan 3 at The Fairmont able to gain a sense of voyaging through voyage in the late spring of 2014, is our island, our island is a canoe). Orchid and at noon on Thursday, Jan tours of Hōkūle‛a and visits with her heading first towards Tahiti, before 9 at Four Seasons. crew as she sailed around the state.
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Gary W. Young
A love of surfing, a genius for innovation and design, and a desire to live a simpler life led Gary Young from an electro-mechanical designer, to builder of wood sailboats, to his longstanding passion for creating more sustainable Natural Fiber Composites for surfboards. As part of his evolvement, Young invented vacuum bag surfboard lamination, a greener method of creating a surfboard that is light in weight, has high strength and uses less resin. © Christian Enns Today, Young uses bamboo, albizia, koa and mango woods in his designs. He Christian Enns pioneered bamboo-skinned surfboards more than 16 years ago and his current board types are split into two Artist and champion big wave surfer Enns’ self-described “fearless” basic groups: a lightweight, high- Christian Enns provided the festival approach to life and art is reflected in Surfers Journal, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, performance, durable eco-board called with cover art in 2013 and 2014. his work. He often takes his paints and National Geographic, Hana Hou, Rolling “Wooden Classics Hawai‛i,” and Ala‛ia A two-time National Scholastic Surfing canvases to the shoreline and creates Stone, NY Times, Outside and LA Times. Lite, a replica of the ancient “ala‛ia” Association (NSSA) Champion and Hawaii en plein air. Young has earned the respect and surfboards. Amateur Surfing Association (HASA) Barela Art Gallery, the inspiration admiration of the surfing world, both Both boards, Young says, “are an Champion, Enns spent 10 years traveling of Phoebe and Chris Barela, opened locally and internationally. He has expression of my passion for making as a professional surfer before settling at the Shops at Mauna Lani in October, laminated surf and sailboards for real, durable, lightweight boards with down on the Big Island. As an artist, he 2012, featuring the work of Chris Barela, champions Sunny Garcia, Robby Naish, recyclable foam cores, a minimum of oil creates visually striking, Hawai‛i-themed Betty Hay Freeland and Christian Enns. Phil Edwards, Rusty Kealana, Nat Young based materials and using guitar-thin paintings that portray the beauty of the and Laird Hamilton. laminated wood/epoxy skins without islands, as well as intimate scenes from Gary Young’s surfboards will be on the use of fiberglass.” modern-day and traditional Hawaiian life. Join Christian Enns and the Barelas for exhibit at The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‛i Young holds two patents and is Christian studied figurative realism a meet-the-artist reception from 5 to in the lower ballroom area adjoining credited with several inventions, and classical painting techniques at 8 pm on Saturday, Jan 4 at the Barela Lehua Theatre Jan 2 and Jan 3. Gary including: Solar-heated vacuum bag Laguna College of Art and Design in Art Gallery in the Shops at Mauna Lani. has also contributed one of his Ala‛ia laminating frame; Compound curve California where he graduated cum Lite surfboards to the festival auction laminated wood veneer/epoxy skinned laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts which will be held at Four Seasons surf and sail boards; and bamboo/epoxy degree. He works primarily with oil Watch Christian Enns at work Jan Resort Hualālai Jan 6-10. laminated skin surfboards, sailboards, paint on panel or canvas. 2-6 from 3 to 6 pm by the lū‛au kiteboards, canoe hulls and paddles. Enn’s experiences riding 50-foot waves grounds at the Mauna Kea Beach Young has given numerous Join Gary Young for a slide show bring a high-energy life force and unique, Hotel, as he creates a painting from presentations on his methods and presentation about his work at personal perspective to his work. His this location. been featured in several magazines, 4 pm on Friday, Jan 3 at The art was the focus of two feature films, including: Surfer, Santa Barbara Fairmont Orchid. Surfing as Sadhanaand Out of the Blue. Independent, Surfing, Surfer’s Path,
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Pamela Polland SanDisk Over the course of her 40-years in the business, award-winning singer/ songwriter Pamela Polland has SanDisk believes that corporate social performed and recorded with such responsibility is fundamental to the musicians as Bonnie Raitt, Kenny company’s success. With this in mind, Loggins, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison, SanDisk has engaged in multiple ethical John Denver, Taj Mahal, Joe Cocker and and sustainable business practices, Manhattan Transfer. Award-recipient Kahauanu Lake and while keeping stakeholders and the When Pamela finally followed her his protégé son, Walter Kamuala‛i environment in focus. dream to move to Maui in 1995, she Kawai‛ae‛a. Pamela feels honored to In recognition of the company’s immersed herself in studying the be associated with these legendary efforts, SanDisk was awarded the © Josh Fletcher culture and native language, joining a Hawaiian masters and to have the 2012 Golden Peacock Global Award hula halau, and studying ‛ukulele. In opportunity to help carry forth the for Corporate Social Responsibility recent years, Pamela has performed culture of traditional Hawaiian music. at the International Conference both as a hula dancer and as a musician, on Social Responsibility in Dubai. of their product packaging and on using accompanying other hula performers. The comprehensive award criteria materials that are easy to recycle. Their Pamela joins the festival this year Pamela is currently the band factor in stakeholder engagement, new packaging significantly reduces the to entertain filmmakers and special leader of a four-person ‛ukulele band, dematerialization, supply-chain use of plastic and eliminates PVC, a guests at the Taste of the Island at Keaolani, whose members have all management, environmental-change chemical proven to present threats to 5 pm on Sunday, Jan 5 at the Mauna been studying under the tutelage management, social innovation, human and environmental health. Kea Beach Hotel Lū‛au Grounds. of Hawaiian Music Hall Of Fame community development, human rights SanDisk also measures greenhouse performance and CSR management gas emissions, sets reduction targets, practices. reports on performance improvements As a member of the United States and discloses overall climate change Green Building Council, SanDisk has strategies through the global Carbon completed a Leadership in Energy Disclosure Project (CDP). Taste of the Island and Environmental Design for Existing More than 3,000 organizations in 60 Featured is tantalizing fare expertly Buildings (LEED-EB) evaluation survey countries are members of the CDP. This While the sun sets over the ocean, prepared by the Mauna Kea Resort, for its Milpitas, California, headquarters. independent non-profit organization join top chefs from around the island Red Water Café, Sushi Rock, Big Island SanDisk uses this tool to maximize the maintains the largest database of and help host festival filmmakers and Brewhaus, Palani French Bakers, Gill’s operational efficiency of their facilities primary corporate climate change special guests to an evening of Aloha Lanai and All About Chocolate. We while minimizing environmental information in the world. at 5 pm on Sunday, Jan 5 in the lū‛au welcome special guests Halau Hula impacts. Facility improvements include SanDisk also has a strict procurement grounds at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. Ke’alaonamaupua, ‛Ike Hawai‛i Hula replacing fluorescent lamps with policy, requiring suppliers to perform Hui, Pamela Polland, Chadd Paishon, LED lighting systems, and controlling due diligence to ensure that materials Paul Buckley and others at this lighting through occupancy sensors. used in SanDisk products are not intimate gathering. SanDisk recognizes that reducing derived from regions where human energy and raw material consumption rights violations are alleged. while improving efficiency is the best The policies and procedures intended Tickets can be purchased at the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to promote environmental and festival Hospitality Desk or by and our impact on the environment. In corporate responsibility are an integral calling the festival office at this vein, SanDisk has placed a special part of SanDisk’s culture to deliver 854-6095. Tickets are limited. focus on reducing the size and weight world-class products and service.
66 waimea ocean film festival experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org program guide 2014 67 Sunset Magazine recently listed Puakea Ranch on its list of Best Hotels in the West. The 2012 Fodor 100 award included Puakea Ranch among 13 properties in the world that deliver a deep sense of place from the moment you check in.
items for picnics; low-flow toilets, kitchen items for day trips and picnics faucets and showerheads; recycle bins and are encouraged to turn off lights and composters in every bungalow when not in use. Each bungalow is also kitchen; bio-degradable and non-toxic equipped with a clothesline and tree cleaning products; non-phosphate swing because sometimes, as Cash notes, cleaning detergent; water catchment “it’s the simplest things that bring us and grey water recycling systems for re- the most pleasure.” use on the garden and landscaping; xeric The care and attention to detail Cash Puakea Ranch landscaping and gardens; native plants has taken at every turn has not gone adapted for the area and an onsite unnoticed. Sunset Magazine recently Award-winning Puakea Ranch in North 2009 at Puakea Ranch organic food garden. listed Puakea Ranch on its list of Best Kohala is a testament to one woman’s For Cash and Nelson, more important During the building process, the Hotels in the West. The 2012 Fodor 100 vision, commitment, passion for the than awards is the ranch’s philosophy ranch committed to refurbishing award included Puakea Ranch among 13 environment and love of Hawai‛i. The of environmental stewardship. As existing materials as much as possible. properties in the world that deliver a luxury guest-ranch vacation retreat restoration work was being done, the Where windows, doors, hardware and deep sense of place from the moment located on 30 acres just south of Hawi couple carefully thought through the fixtures could not be salvaged, they you check in. Trip Advisor recognized offers an experience that owner Christie process, weaving green practices both were replaced with building-salvaged the ranch in 2011, 2012 and 2013 with a Cash describes as “authentic, unique and into the renovations and on-going resources and recycled materials. The Certificate of Excellence. down-to-earth.” operations whenever feasible. The list ranch is also on its way to becoming Puakea Ranch, 2012 recipient of of building and operational techniques more energy self-sufficient through a Fodors 100 Hotel Awards, is a labor of used to green the ranch is impressive variety of renewable energy solutions, love. Owners Cash and Jay Nelson had and part of what lends the ranch its air including the installation of photovoltaic. vacationed in the Hawaiian Islands many of sophisticated comfort and relaxed Taking the program one step further, times before they moved to Hawai‛i ease. For example, a reliance on fans the ranch incorporates guests into the Island in 2007. Their search for a rustic rather then air conditioning ensures that process by providing in-room guides property to renovate ended when Cash island breezes flow readily through each describing these programs and inviting saw Puakea Ranch - an aging village of bungalow, allowing guests to breath guest participation. Guests can choose cowboy homes, bunkhouses and buildings deeply of the refreshing island air. how often to re-fresh linens and towels; that, for more than a century, had been Other improvements include the they are offered the use of re-usable part of a working ranch. installation and use of green systems Following three years of meticulous throughout: LED lighting and energy renovations, the first guests arrived in efficient appliances; re-usable service
Photos courtesy of Puakea Ranch
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Photos courtesy of Holualoa Inn and Carole Carraway.
Holualoa Inn
Stepping through the portico at Richly re-furbished eucalyptus with a carafe of filtered water and real island and place. “As stewards of this Holualoa Inn is like entering a bygone flooring and carefully selected artwork glassware, rather than plastic water exceptional property in the heart of era, when the fragrant scent of flowers and furnishings lend the Inn an air of bottles. Tasteful, non-plastic and natural Holualoa Village, we are more than wafted in the breeze, the call of understated elegance. Built originally materials are used throughout the Inn. innkeepers,” Hazen notes. “It is our songbirds floated in the air and people as a vacation retreat for Thurston Re-usable water bottles are available for responsibility to protect and preserve sat for afternoon tea. Twigg-Smith, then publisher of the guests to purchase for their excursions these acres of old Hawai‛i, which have With the quaint, artist town of Honolulu Advertiser, the Inn was around the island and guest picnic been home to many families over the Holualoa just up the drive, and amidst acquired by Cassandra Hazen in 2005. lunches are packed in reusable lunch generations. In turn, we are honored to coffee trees, flower gardens, tropical Drawing on her experience in running totes, rather than disposables. share this sanctuary with guests who visit fruit trees and walking trails, a stay at a successful hospitality and corporate Wherever possible, materials were Holualoa from all points of the globe.” Holualoa Inn is a time to slow down, put events business, coupled with 15 years re-finished and re-used during the your feet up and read a book, or stroll as executive director of the California renovations, while repurposed wood leisurely through the shops, galleries Association of Bed and Breakfast Inns, was found to renovate the new Darrell and restaurants of the nearby town. Hazen renovated the Inn to exacting Hill Cottage. A water catchment system Breakfast is exquisitely prepared and standards, with attention to every detail. reclaims water from the Inn’s nursery served garden-to-table. Sweeping views Each room is meticulously furnished roof, piping it into clay urns for use in of the Kona coastline from the dining with quality bedding and artwork garden irrigation. Free-range chickens area, and the aroma of French-pressed collected from the islands and abroad. produce fresh eggs and all the fruits, coffee sourced from freshly roasted Within this setting of timeless luxury, vegetables, fresh herbs and nuts are beans grown on site, invite guests to guests are invited to share the Inn’s grown using organic methods. linger and savor every bite. consideration for island resources. On The Inn’s efforts towards stewardship entering the room, each guest is greeted reflect Hazen’s values, and love of the
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The festival is made possible through Food and Beverage Sponsors Local Supporters - Business Thank you to everyone in the the support of patrons and sponsors. Mauna Kea Resort and Organizations community who contributed Mahalo to our 2013/2014 sponsors! The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‛i Jim Hood | The Computer Doctor to make this festival possible. Four Seasons Resort Hualālai Jennifer Green | Nemo Advertising A special thank you to: Starbucks Coffee Puakea Ranch Sponsors Redwater Café Volcano Mist Cottage Nancy Michel All About Chocolate The Hawai‛i Plantatation Museum Jude McAnesby Venue and Lodging Sponsors Maria Peterson Catering Blue Wilderness Dive Adventures Madeleine Budde Four Seasons Resort Hualālai Big Island Brewhaus Nick Selway, Lava Light Galleries Mark Morphew The Fairmont Orchid, Hawai‛i Sushi Rock Chris Barela, Barela Art Susie Spielman Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and Resort Gill’s Lanai Christian Enns, Barela Art Lisen Twigg-Smith Hapuna Prince Beach Hotel Palani French Bakers Holualoa Kona Coffee Company Pat and Dave Allbee Hawai‛i Preparatory Academy (HPA) Mountain Apple Company Lisa Shattuck Parker School Kamuela Gourmet Stephan Miller Anna Ranch Heritage Center Patrons Chef Daniel Hawai‛i Jaisy Jardine Sugai Kona Coffee Jon Gersonde Inner Circle Sponsors Inner Circle Supporters Micongi Coffee Farms Phyllis Branco GoPro The Ludwick Family Foundation Tai Shan Farms Keith M. Groves The SanDisk Foundation, an advised Irwin and Ceppie Federman Mauna Loa Macadamia Nuts Sarah Douglas fund of the Silicon Valley Community Ava Williams and Scott Elliot Big Island Candies Jessica Henley Foundation The Gifford Foundation Oka Family Farms Kona Coffee Ava Williams and Scott Elliot Tokyu Foundation Gruber Family Foundation Mary Grace Long Photography Irwin and Ceppie Federman de Reus Architects Paul and Cassandra Hazen Kohala Artworks Andy and Worth Ludwick Holualoa Inn John and Ann Broadbent Chambers & Chambers Wine Merchants Shirley Ann Fukumoto K2imaging, Inc. Tom and Polly Bredt Tim Freeman | Volcano Pit Fired Lisa Sakurai Blacksand Sound & Show Anne and Ed Storm Ceramics Fern Gavelek Maile Charters John and Ann Broadbent Grapes: A Wine Store Sharon Sakai Matson Foundation Bob and Carol Momsen Jon Vedelli HI Luxury Melissa Yeager and Cory Van Arsdale Jim Hurst Penn and Net Payne Clay Matsuzaki Media and Local Sponsors Marcia Wythes Caroline Landry and David Kirk 102.7 The Beach Marlene and Sandy Louchheim Jennifer and Greg Green The Wave @ 92fm David K.J. and Patsy Heffel John Freitas West Hawaii Today Mollie Hustace Ke Ola Magazine Local Supporters – Patrons Joe Loschiavo Big Island Weekly Hal and Ginny Cogger Pua Case North Hawaii News Dick and Christine Karger Keomailani Case Kona Law Dave and Phyrne Osborne Chadd Paishon MacNet of Kona Horton Shapiro Jennifer Bryan Waimea Instant Printing David and Katherine Hanlon Lehua Wilson Caroline Landry and David Kirk Ku’ulei Keakealani Kelly Winsa David Ellis Anne and Jerry Down Rudy DeRochemont Susan and Stuart R. Engs Robert and Ceri Whitfield Yen Yee and Paul Locklin continued on next page
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Ginny Cogger Mark Morphew Phyrne Osborne Susie Spielman Danny and Anna Akaka Lisen Twigg-Smith Pamela Polland Keith Wallach Tom Kearns Caroline Landry Jim Hood Mollie Hustace Uncle Earl Regidor John Wray Scott Cairns Margo Wray Chris White Jennifer Green Kawaihae Canoe Club Greg Green Pascale Fasciano Joe Loschiavo Barbara Garcia Nancy Erger Sofia Howard Margaret Rose Wendy T. M. Ittner Dave Rose Halau Hula Ke‛alaonamaupua Lark Willey ‛Ike Hawai‛i Hula Hui Liz Morriss Harry Sprague Diesel Tucker Will Zucker Michael Spetich Matt Stone Yumi Wakely David Byars Laurie Dale Tammy Touchet Eri Higashi Kelly Hoyle Ben Durnell Jerry Blevins Michael Huber John Boyle Heidi Smith © Christian Enns Barbara Kopra Peggy Seidensticker Waimea Community Chorus Coert Olmsted Waimea Consort Cara McCann Ocean Film Production Photography | Josh Fletcher, Bonnie Stevenson Steve Campbell Diane Ashley Director | Tania Howard Design | Sarah Douglas, gaiacreative Board Jean Bassen Assistant to the Director | Mary Beth Pass Layout and Design Support | Marlenajon Waihee Stafford Bartlett Jennifer Green, Nemo Advertising Tania Howard Odile Stephan Hospitality | Lisa Shattuck Worth Ludwick Dorothy Hafner Technical Team | Jim Hurst Program Guide Melissa Yeager Jean Cluff Clay Matsuzaki, Blacksand Sound Program Design | Sarah Douglas, Susan Nixon Stephen Shrader and Show gaiacreative Callie Khourie Kirsten Biondi Rudy DeRochemont, Blacksand Sound Copy and Editing | Tania Howard, Debby Stern and Show Sharon Sakai, Fern Gavelek Bruce Stern Projection | Clay Matsuzaki, Proof Reading | Fern Gavelek, Volunteers Anne Kennedy Rudy DeRochemont, John Week, Tania Howard, Caroline Landry, John Lang Greg Green, Diesel Tucker Jennifer Green Bob Hall Nancy Michel Film Intro Editors | Jim Hurst, Dave Byars Jean Hall Pat Allbee PR | Fern Gavelek Communications Scott Larson Dave Allbee Jessica Henley, gaiacreative Robert Golden Jude McAnesby Web | Stephen Daniel Karpik George Bush thank you! Madeleine Budde Accounting | Patricia Schumacher
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