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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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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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
Sold-out HIFF44 Films Get Additional Screenings (TĪNA, MOLOKA’I BOUND, HAKKENDEN) Read More »
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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The 2024 Festival showcases another banner line-up of films by women and female driven stories. Particularly films that illustrate depth, nuance, and complexity in the depiction of female characters and storylines. Check out this exciting line-up of narrative features from rising female directors. All of these women present their first or second features at HIFF
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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
HOMEGROWN Shorts Program: Negotiating Identities in US Territories Read More »
The Halekulani Maverick Award is given to an international cinema artist who has a unique and eclectic career trajectory, contributing to international cinema arts in an innovative way. This maverick does things on their own terms, creating work that can have a rabid following to a mass appreciation in today’s pop culture. Like a trendsetter
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.