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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi, Anne Misawa
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directed by Laurie Sumiye, fl. 2010; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 9 mins

Cinematographer, Director and ANNE MISAWA’s directorial credits include Waking Mele, (Sundance Film Festival), Eden’s Curve, and the feature length documentary, State Of Aloha. Her work as cinematographer includes the stunning Margarita with a Straw and Treeless Mountain, nominated for an Independent Spirit Aw...

directed by Laurie Sumiye, fl. 2010; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 9 mins
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi, Ciara Leina`ala Lacy
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directed by Heather Giugni, fl. 1986-2010; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 8 mins

Director CIARA LACY is an emerging Native Hawaiian film director and experienced producer whose films reflects her ethos: community-oriented and place-based. Her first feature Out of State (PBS, 2019) is a riveting look inside a for-profit Arizona prison which holds incarcerated Native Hawaiian men who practice hu...

directed by Heather Giugni, fl. 1986-2010; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 8 mins
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi, Connie M. Florez
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directed by Leah Kihara, fl. 1996; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 8 mins

As a busy producer, line producer and location manager CONNIE FLOREZ works on feature films, shorts, as well as episodic and reality television. An early advocate for queer film in the Islands, she organized and curated the Honolulu LGBT Film Festival. She produced Kumu Hina a nationally broadcast documentary feat...

directed by Leah Kihara, fl. 1996; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 8 mins
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi, Heather Haunani Giugni
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directed by Shirley Thompson, 1963-; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 9 mins

Prolific Native Hawaiian producer HEATHER HAUNANI GIUGNI recounts her start in 1980’s male-dominated world of news, “If you were female and wanted to do something, you were ridiculed!” She left news to start the first woman-owned production company in Hawai‘i. She then developed the first television show p...

directed by Shirley Thompson, 1963-; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 9 mins
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi, Jeannette Paulson Hereniko
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directed by Vera Zambonelli, fl. 2011; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 8 mins

JEANETTE PAULSON HERENIKO is a film producer who transformed the landscape for Hawai‘i-based filmmakers when she founded the Hawai‘i International Film Festival in 1981. She produced The Land Has Eyes, the first feature film shot in Fiji, with filmmaking partner and spouse Vilsoni Hereniko. She is producing th...

directed by Vera Zambonelli, fl. 2011; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 8 mins
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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi, Victoria Keith
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directed by Shirley Thompson, 1963-; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 9 mins

It’s 1981 on Oahu’s Sand Island and camerawoman VICTORIA KEITH fearlessly films as Honolulu police evict Hawaiian activists by force and residents burn down their homes in protest. Sand Island Story became a seminal film of the Hawaiian Renaissance. The first woman hired as a news photographer in Hawai‘i, Ke...

directed by Shirley Thompson, 1963-; produced by Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, in Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, 2018), 9 mins
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