The votes have been tabulated and the audience has spoken. Here are the 44th Hawai‘i International Film Festival presented by Halekulani (HIFF44) Audience Award winners presented by Hawaii News Now. HIFF44 Audience Award for Narrative Feature: ABOUT FAMILY (South Korea) Director: YANG Woo-suk HIFF44 Audience Award for Documentary Feature: SHAKA, A STORY OF ALOHA (Hawai‘i, […]
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The 44th edition of the Hawai‘i International Film Festival (HIFF44) presented by Halekulani announced its jury winners and celebrated its Awards Gala Honorees at a private event held at the Halekulani Hotel. In its 2024 iteration, the organization awarded $25,000 in cash prizes to filmmakers across respective categories. KAU KA HŌKŪ AWARD The Kau Ka
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Instagram Facebook Youtube Filmmakers of the HIFF44 Environmental Shorts Program The Hawai’i International Film Festival is proud to unveil the winners of the 2024 Deep Blue Shorts Competition Presented by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office. This new competition with a $5,000 cash prize pool aims to raise awareness about and promote the
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HIFF44 starts its tour of the Neighbor Islands starting Saturday, October 19, and goes through November 10, with multiple feature, documentary and shorts program screenings sure to appeal to our audiences. Check out the HIFF44 Neighbor Island Showcase website for full details. MAUI (Maui Arts & Cultural Center) Buy Tickets Saturday, Oct. 19 1:00 p.m.
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Here is the HIFF44 West side schedule, which starts today! Unless noted, all screenings are at Consolidated Kapolei. All screenings will have after-film Q&As with the filmmakers. By popular demand, the Festival has added MOLOKA‘I BOUND, the Kau Ka Hōkū and Made in Hawai‘i Grand Jury Award winner. Tuesday, October 15 7:00pm MADE IN HAWAII
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As we go into our closing weekend at the Consolidated Kahala Theaters, here are some absolute ‘MUST-SEE’ films and events with many of them attached to filmmakers in attendance. First off, tickets are going fast with our added screenings of TINĀ (Opening Night) and MOLOKA‘I BOUND (Centerpiece), as well as more tickets released for HAKKENDEN:
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At HIFF, our volunteers are the backbone of the festival, and with their help, we’re able to bring together filmmakers, actors, and film enthusiasts from all around the world. In this short Q&A, meet Volunteer Coordinator Adrienne Wilson and Volunteer Assistant Kenna Tanouye as they talk about what goes on behind the scenes in shaping
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As the 8th anniversary of Disney’s MOANA approaches, HIFF is honored to host directing duo Ron Clements and John Musker, along with producer Osnat Shurer. Ron and John have directed beloved Disney films such as THE LITTLE MERMAID, ALADDIN, HERCULES, and THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. They worked with some of Walt Disney’s core animators
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We are so pleased with the support HIFF44 has been getting this month, and because of that, three of films are getting additional screenings and ticket sales by popular demand: Sunday, Oct. 13 TINĀ HIFF44 Opening Night Film, TINĀ, will be shown again after its triumphant opening night screening, this time at 3:30 PM MOLOKA’I
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HIFF44 is here! With a record number of shorts this year – a whopping 18 shorts programs! As an oscar-qualifying festival for short films, the competition is mighty and sometimes we have to add a few more programs due to the overwhelming amount of fantastic film submissions. We have some really incredible titles this season,
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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.