Next week, HIFF44 kicks off at the start of October, just in time for Honolulu Pride, which takes place at the end of the month. 2024 has been an incredible year for queer cinema, as Hollywood, popular culture, and the film industry have been increasingly recognizing the value and importance of LGBTQIA+ filmmakers, characters, and […]
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HIFF is privileged once again this year to have a group of distinguished jurors who will choose the winners in the several categories in competition. Let’s meet three of them. Jason Ishikawa A juror for the category of Best Short Film Award presented by Hawaiian Airlines, Jason Ishikawa comes back to his island home to
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The subtitle of HIFF’s HOMEGROWN shorts program is a very telling one: “A Part Of/Apart From.” Chloe Walters-Wallace, director of regional initiatives for Firelight Media, who produced this program, said “In commissioning these eight documentary short films for the collection, … we hope to shed light on the perspectives and experiences of the residents and
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With aloha, HIFF acknowledges its occupation of ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Indigenous Hawaiian people, the Kānaka Maoli.
With gratitude, we honor the ʻāina itself and the generations who steward it.