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Award-winning director to teach digital storytelling class at UH-Maui College

The Maui News

Maui director Brian Kohne, who has his latest film “Kuleana” touring film festivals across the country, will be teaching a digital storytelling class at the University of Hawaii Maui College in the spring, the college announced Wednesday.

“I’m excited to share some of what I’ve learned on a journey which began at Baldwin High on Maui where I made my first Super-8 movie in 1981,” Kohne said. “We’ll be joined in class by a number of professional storytellers, and together will explore a colorful array of media and methodologies which empower our creation and presentation of digital media products.”

The class, titled “ICS 190V2: Storytelling — Find your voice in digital media,” is being offered by the creative media program and will introduce students to the core principles, methodologies and creation of digital storytelling in various forms, such as movies, literature, spoken word, television, commercial art and online media.

Kohne is the head of Hawai’i Cinema and is preparing to release his mystery-drama “Kuleana,” which features an all-Hawaii cast and crew. Kuleana has already garnered several audience choice awards from film festivals on Maui, Oklahoma, Texas and California.

He was producer of “The Barefoot Natives” with Willie K and Eric Gilliom and wrote and directed the 2011 independent island comedy “Get A Job,” which featured Hawaii musicians and entertainers.

Kohne is a graduate of San Jose State University with degrees in art and radio, TV, video and film. He also has experience in sales and marketing, corporate video production, sports broadcasting and interactive television software development.

The creative media program offers a two-year associate in science degree in digital storytelling (film), computer graphics or web design at UH-Maui College, with a transfer opportunity to a two-year bachelor’s degree in creative media at UH-West Oahu.

The deadline to apply for the spring semester is Friday.

For more information, contact Creative Media Program coordinator Daniel Kruse at krused@hawaii.edu or 984-3324. For information on applying for the program, go to maui.hawaii.edu.

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