As the dust settles from the just concluded 44th Hawai‘I International Film Festival presented by Halekulani (HIFF44), the festival staff is currently going through wrap-up reports, crunching numbers, and analyzing data. On the programming side, it’s several post-mortems as we reflect on some of our personal film favorites, in the hopes that we can amplify […]
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We showed a lot of films, both narratives and documentaries, at HIFF44, so we’re not surprised that our loyal patrons may have missed a film or two due to scheduling conflicts. So, with the help of shorts programming manager Melina Kiyomi Coumas, we’d like to recommend a handful of films that may have escaped your
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