Established in 2002 in Park City, Utah to honor and recognize the cinematic artists whose works premiered at the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals, the APFE foregrounds and celebrates the…
Though the United States has positioned itself as a beacon of democracy, its colonial power over five territories (Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana…
Brands and creators are pioneering new approaches to making longer-form content like film and TV shows, that help drive brand affinity and growth. With the slowdown in subscriber growth, streamers…
Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou, Vancouver-based creators of the wildly popular YouTube video essay series EVERY FRAME A PAINTING—which has amassed 2 million subscribers—are returning to HIFF! From YouTube videos…
This year marks the 100th year of the birth of Donald Richie, the world-renowned American scholar and critic who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the west.
ACM Accelerator
Celebrate the launch of the 44th Annual Hawai’i International Film Festival presented by Halekulani with a unique twist—the event takes place in HIFF’s metaverse, an interactive platform designed to resemble…
New American Perspectives
New American Perspectives (NAP) presented by the Vilcek Foundation shines a spotlight on immigrant and foreign-born artists, celebrating the powerful impact that diversity has on contemporary cinema and media in…
Special guests Ciara Lacy (Director, Queen’s Flowers), Alika Tengan (Director, Molokaʻi Bound), Holden Mandrial-Santos (Star, Molokaʻi Bound), along with Molokaʻi-based filmmakers Matt Yamashita and Mikiala Pescaia gather for a special…
New American Perspectives
BYWAYS, Roger Deakins' first-ever monograph (Damiani, 2021), includes previously unpublished personal black-and-white stills that reflect a life spent looking and telling stories through images, from 1971 to the present. After…