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Program Guide 2011 January 5-9, 2011 Waimea, Mauna Kea + Kohala Coast January 13-15, 2011 Four Seasons Resort Hualalai www.waimeaoceanfilm.org PROGRAM GUIDE 2011 1 sponsors contents + about our area LODGING SPONSORS contents 4 Host Venues 5 Map 6 About the Festival 8 Films VENUE SPONSOR 20 Schedule 24 Breakfast Talks 28 Guest Speakers and Presentations 48 Artists and Exhibits 56 About Our Sponsors FOOD & BEVERAGE SPONSOR 62 Thank You to Our Contributors Photo courtesy Mauna Kea Resort SPONSORS AND PATRONS about our area big island | $25,000+ Five volcanoes comprise the Big Island, Spinner dolphins rest in shallow bays, including the still active Kilauea, which and during winter months, humpback sits at the heart of Volcanoes National whales delight visitors and locals alike with their acrobatic displays and kohala coast | $15,000+ Park. Together, Mauna Kea, Muana Loa and Hualalai form the backdrop beautiful song. of the Kohala Coast, where stark lava fields meet turquoise waters and sandy The town of Waimea, also known as beaches. Kamuela, sits in the saddle between coral reef | $5,000+ the dry and green sides of the island. The Kohala Coast is an area rich in both It is known as much for the paniolo Ken Ransford Law Hawaiian history and sea life. Tropical culture that lends character to the town fish, many of which are found nowhere as for the weather patterns ever shifting yellow tang | $1,000+ else in the world, inhabit these reefs, between rain, mist and sun. along with Hawaiian hawksbill turtles, Bryce Groark Photography octopus, eel and smaller reef sharks. Cover photo © Clark Little / ClarkLittle.com 2 WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org PROGRAM GUIDE 2011 3 host venues host venues + map Parker School Theatre host venues 65-1224 Lindsey Road Originally built in 1920 on the Parker WAIMEA Ranch as an entertainment center for Kawaihae Harbor Mauna Kea Beach Hotel ranch residents and workers, the 280- Kawaihae Road and Highway 270 62-100 Mauna Kea Beach Drive Hawai`i Preparatory Academy seat Parker School Theatre has been The first ships to bring horses and The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, built 65-1692 Kohala Mountain Road renovated over the decades but still cattle to the Big Island docked at in 1965 by Laurance S. Rockefeller, The Gates Performing Arts Center at maintains its charms of old. Festival Kawaihae Harbor. Today, the harbor epitomizes the beauty of Hawai`i and the Hawai`i Preparatory Academy is attendees may enjoy film screenings permits much larger sea craft and is the spirit of aloha. Breakfast talks will a 360-seat theatre at the heart of the and presentations at this venue. home to the Kawaihae Canoe Club and take place in the Garden Room, and Academy’s performing arts program. the Makali`i. Visit the canoe club just sunrise activities, a cultural evening, Film screenings, presentations, and PIKO Gallery past the harbor for outrigger canoe and the closing luau will take place on tours of the Energy Lab are scheduled 67-1185 Mamalahoa Highway paddling lessons, and the halau within the Mauna Kea grounds. throughout the festival weekend. Space H-148 the harbor for a breakfast talk around The PIKO Gallery and Hawaiian Ohana the Makali`i. Kahilu Theatre for Education in the Arts space, 67-1186 Lindsey Road projects of the Keomailani Hanapi The Kahilu Theatre, a 490-seat Foundation, present an exhibit with performing arts theatre in the center the work of the National Geographic of Waimea town, provides a home for photographer that was on the 1976 the presentation, support, education voyage of Hokulea. Participants are and promotion of the performing arts invited to hear voyagers from the and is billed as the Big Island’s premier trip talk about their experiences on cultural resource. The theatre will host Thursday at 4pm, and to view the the festival Hospitality Center, breakfast exhibit Friday and Saturday from 10am talks, film screenings, presentations, to 4pm. and a Meet the Artists gathering. Parker School Art Room KOHALA COAST 65-1224 Lindsey Road Festival participants are invited to stop Four Seasons Resort Hualalai by the Parker School Art Room from 1 72-100 Ka`upulehu Drive to 2pm each day to experience the art The Four Seasons Resort Hualalai of Aurora Robson in progress. The final at Historic Ka`upulehu captures the piece will move to Four Seasons Resort essence of Hawaiian design, culture Hualalai. and tradition and radiates understated elegance. The resort will host the gala opening on January 5th, as well as the festival itself again Jan. 13-15. 4 WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org PROGRAM GUIDE 2011 5 about the festival sunrise/morning activities THEATRE ENTRY about the festival Wear your pass with pride! You’ll need USING THE PROGRAM this for films and events. Also, theatre Check the map and the Host Venues staff will not be able to allow people page for venue locations (including to enter once a program starts. Queue address) and descriptions. early in order to assure seating. If you are seeing two consecutive programs in All film screening, presentation, a row, you will need to exit the theatre and special event times are listed between screenings. by day and venue in the festival schedule. Each Breakfast Talk location TBAS is listed along with its description Flyers announcing TBAs and special in the Breakfast Talk section of the screenings will be available at each program. Date, time, and location of Barbara A. Schaefer theatre and at Hospitality. presentations and special events are listed additionally with the respective sunrise/morning activities full-length program description. GETTING AROUND The Kahilu Theatre, PIKO Gallery, Parker School Theatre and Parker Art MAUNA KEA BEACH HOTEL KAWAIHAE CANOE CLUB HOSPITALITY Room are all within walking distance Join fellow festival attendees every The Kawaihae Canoe Club was formed in Hospitality and Will Call is located in of each other. We suggest carpooling morning during the festival (Thursday 1972 by a group of athletic and civic- the main gallery of the Kahilu Theatre. between the Kohala Coast, Waimea through Sunday) from 6:30 to 7:30am minded individuals from Waimea, and Purchase and/or pick up festival passes, Town, and the Hawai`i Preparatory to kick start your day. Planned activities has been instrumental to the revival grab an additional program, and learn Academy. It takes approximately 20 range from yoga to beach jog to of the ancient Hawaiian tradition of about scheduled morning activities and minutes to drive between the Kohala morning swim (conditions dependent). outrigger canoe racing on the Big Island. TBA film announcements here. Coast and Waimea Town. If you would like to participate in our The Club’s dedication to promoting and HOURS OF OPERATION: early-morning activities – given that perpetuating outrigger canoe racing THINGS TO REMEMBER brings participants ranging in age from Wednesday: 9am – 3pm Always wear your pass there’s nothing quite like starting Thursday: 9am – 6:30pm Sunrise / morning activities start at your day with the sunrise – check with ten to seventy, and helps challenge kids Friday: 9am – 6:30pm 6:30am Hospitality to find out which activities by giving them a sense of direction and Saturday: 9am – 3pm Breakfast talks start promptly at 8am – are scheduled each day. developing their discipline. come early to get coffee and a seat Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hapuna Beach Waimea Ocean Film Festival attendees Prince Hotel, the Fairmont Orchid, and are invited to join the Kawaihae Canoe the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai are all Club on Thursday and Friday mornings in offering steep room discounts to festival Kawaihae Harbor from 6:30 to 7:30am to attendees – treat yourself to a night learn how to paddle an outrigger canoe. or two at one of our luxurious sponsor Participation is limited: come early and hotels dress to be on the water. 6 WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL experience. environment. culture. www.waimeaoceanfilm.org PROGRAM GUIDE 2011 7 name of film the films It took 28 weeks to capture Oceans unprecedented footage of the mythic blue whale, feeding on clouds of krill, French directors Jacques Perrin and creating startling intimacy with one of Jacques Cluzaud filmed around the the most compelling creatures of the globe for almost five years, traversing deep. “The blue whale is an almost the earth’s oceans to capture the mythical animal,” said Perrin. “Furtive, heights and depths of the ordinary fast, and discreet, it is the largest and the extraordinary, in an attempt to animal ever to exist on Earth, and has answer a simple question: almost never been filmed underwater WHAT IS THE OCEAN? and never, to our knowledge, while The answer is the ocean is epic, feeding.” Filming other species, such fantastic, and magical. It lies beneath as the mola mola, or the sheepshead in a never-never land of coral, blue rasse, or the blanket octopus were whales, armies of crabs, and moments just as challenging, and the results of stillness as a man swims alongside a just as remarkable. The ocean and great white shark. It lies at the surface, its inhabitants became characters in racing with schools of tuna, herds of an epic story of renewal and survival, dolphins, and flocks of birds. It lies all moving together in the harmonic with a rare Galapagos Islands marine orchestra of life. iguana as it dives up to 50 feet to eat seaweed. Executive Producer Jake Eberts, who has been involved with a long list of Perrin and Cluzaud were able to use award-winning films, including Chariots ingenious new technologies and an of Fire, Gandhi, Driving Miss Daisy, unrestricted timeframe to build an Dances with Wolves, and A River Runs emotional bridge between the ocean Through It, will attend the screening and audience.