May 26, 2016
May 25, 2016
May 15, 2016
Topless Kickstarter Video!
We are more than halfway through the Mele Murals Kickstarter campaign and doing whatever it takes to reach our goal! Please help push us over the top! Check out this fun video we shot the day of our World Premiere in March:
Mele Murals - Festival Premiere Night from Oiwi TV on Vimeo.
Shouts out to Mele Murals DP Justyn Ah Chong for conceptualizing and creating this video!
Mele Murals - Festival Premiere Night from Oiwi TV on Vimeo.
Shouts out to Mele Murals DP Justyn Ah Chong for conceptualizing and creating this video!
May 7, 2016
Please back Mele Murals on Kickstarter
I've never launched a Kickstarter campaign until now. We really need
your help to get our film Mele Murals across the finish line and more importantly to
share the film with the world! Please donate if you can and share: http://kck.st/1NBAlK2 Thanks in advance!
As many of you know, it is extremely difficult and to find funding for community-based documentaries, especially for projects coming from WITHIN the Native Hawaiian community. This is the first time I've ever asked my friends to donate money but it's only because I feel so strongly about sharing the strength and beauty of this story.
As many of you know, it is extremely difficult and to find funding for community-based documentaries, especially for projects coming from WITHIN the Native Hawaiian community. This is the first time I've ever asked my friends to donate money but it's only because I feel so strongly about sharing the strength and beauty of this story.
April 11, 2016
Mele Murals Chicago Premiere
Had a great sold-out Chicago Premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center as part FAAIM's Chicago Asian American Showcase. Tim Hugh and FAAIM have always supported my work over the years and I always look forward to screening in the Chi, even if it's snowing in April.
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| Mele Murals features the students at Kanu o ka ʻĀina in Waimea, HI. Kanu alum Alyssa Heenan now goes to college in Chicago and was able to see herself projected on the big screen. She was a senior in HS when we shot the film. |
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| The Mele Murals family has a far reach, even in the Midwest. Estria Miyashiro's family in Chicago came to the screening. Estria is one of the main characters featured in Mele Murals. |
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| The highlight of every trip to the Chi is catching up with my dude Steve Moon and his wife Tina. This time they took me to Papas Cache Sabroso and introduced me to the jibarito! Now I'm always going to have to hit this spot up when I'm in town. |
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| At least I got to break in my new foamposite boots. |
March 21, 2016
Mele Murals World Premiere
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| Cinematographer Justyn Ah Chong, me, Executive Producer Keoni Lee, Associate Producer Aina Paikai |
We did it! The sold-out World Premiere of Mele Murals at the Oakland Museum of California was exactly what we had envisioned! We were privileged to have our premiere at CAAMFest which has been supporting my work since my first film.
A huge thank you to everyone who came out. The strength of our communities were on full display that night and left me grateful and inspired. The event started with live paintings by Prime and Estria - the artists featured in the film - and ended with performances by Bambu, Geo and Sabzi.
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| The premiere was part of Friday Nights @ OMCA featuring Off The Grid food trucks. |
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| Prime and Estria (the artists featured in the film) doing what they do best. |
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| Me and the rents! |
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| Cast and crew. |
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| Prometheus Brown and Bambu performed at The Bar after the screening. |
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| Impromptu Blue Scholars set! Sabzi produced the score for Mele Murals. |
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| The Mele Murals 'Ohana in San Francisco's Japantown after the second sold-out screening. |
February 16, 2016
April 8, 2015
#ProtectMaunaKea
Last year I had the great opportunity of filming in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawai'i. There I got to witness the true meaning of Aloha ʻĀina in action as the people and land continuosly protect and provide for each other. Many of the friends I made during that trip are now engaged in a battle to protect their Mauna Kea. All week people have been protesting the start of construction for the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the peak of Mauna Kea. Mauna Kea is one of the most sacred places for the Hawaiian people and this telescope will further its desecration.
This footage is from an upcoming documentary on artists Estria Miyashiro and John "Prime" Hina and their Mele Murals project. Uncle Kalani Flores and Auntie Pua Case explain the sacredness and importance of Mauna Kea to a group of students from Kanu o ka 'Āina Learning ʻOhana (KALO) and the Mele Murals staff.
Editor: Tadashi Nakamura
Camera: Justyn Ah Chong & ʻĀina Paikai
Music: Misty Mountain by Humble Soul
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