Director
At dawn, Kelsey Akioka hikes out onto the Kalapana lava fields with a camera in hand and 80 lbs of gear on his back. We observe his methodical photography process amid one of nature’s most beautiful and chaotic events. Under the shade of a pop-up tent, he sells these photos at a small makeshift marketplace to apathetic tourists. By the end of the day, Kelsey returns home, exhausted and worn, to his son and elderly father. When he learns his friend is sacrificing his passion and moving away from home to pursue a better life for his family, Kelsey begins to question his own choices. As his frustrations spill into his home life, Kelsey must confront the turmoil stirring within him.
Director
Rom-com obsessed teen Christine has always longed for the picture-perfect romance - but she's soon confronted with the fact that her ideal prince charming might actually be a princess charming instead.
Camera Operator
On Wednesday, July 17th 2019, a heavily armed police force arrested 36 Native Hawaiian kūpuna peacefully protecting Maunakea from desecration. The actions from that day sparked an international outcry and brought new life to the ongoing movement for Native Hawaiians’ rights for self-determination.
Writer
Set in rural Hawaii, a Native Hawaiian girl must confront her father after he enters her beloved pet in a dog fight. The film explores the cultural and socio-economic strife that burdens many communities in Hawaii, but at its heart, it is a coming-of-age tale of a young woman who makes the difficult realization that to save her family, she must stand on her own.
Director
Set in rural Hawaii, a Native Hawaiian girl must confront her father after he enters her beloved pet in a dog fight. The film explores the cultural and socio-economic strife that burdens many communities in Hawaii, but at its heart, it is a coming-of-age tale of a young woman who makes the difficult realization that to save her family, she must stand on her own.
Second Unit Director
In a span of less than seven years, top organizations and publications including Time Magazine, Interscope Records, The Olympics, Filmmaker Magazine, Variety Magazine, the UFC, Bellator MMA and Major League Baseball have all featured the homegrown talents from one of the most unsuspecting of places…a small Pacific island only thirty seven miles long and five miles wide; the island of Guam, USA. Talent Town is a thought-provoking journey through Guam’s landscape of homegrown talent. Directors Don and Kel Muña conduct over thirty exclusive interviews with some of Guam’s most notable residing talent.
Writer
What does a young Maori girl do when violence stains her childhood and family?
Director
What does a young Maori girl do when violence stains her childhood and family?
