Having recorded a cover of Carlos Santana’s song “Europa” on her album “Four Strings: The Fire Within,” multi-Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award winner Brittni Paiva heard the Latin rock legend was going to play Oahu in 2013 and made contact through her management. Santana invited her to ...
For the First Nations people of Canada’s remote archipelago of Haida Gwaii, playing basketball became a vital tool for preserving their culture in the face of government suppression. In his acclaimed documentary “Saints and Warriors,” Indigenous Haida filmmaker Nang K‘uulas Patrick ...
Among the films screening at the Wailuku Film Festival, Mikey Inouye’s “Mālama Mākua” traces the transformation of Oahu’s Mākua Valley from a place of deep cultural roots to a rallying point for grassroots activism. The documentary chronicles the ongoing struggle to restore U.S. ...
In the new documentary “SURFILMUSIC,” opening the inaugural Wailuku Film Festival on June 17, Oahu resident Jack Johnson was asked how he became so big. Johnson humbly responded, “I actually don’t know.” With more than 25 million albums sold worldwide, Johnson is known for iconic ...
Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms” began as a series of YouTube short films, creating a striking world of vast, empty hallways and vacant rooms that have no end. The film expands on the idea without trivializing or over-explaining it, adds a gripping narrative and is anchored by two powerhouse ...
Touring today with longtime members Philip Bailey, Verdine White and Ralph Johnson, the Grammy-winning band Earth, Wind & Fire is the subject of the new documentary “Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That’s the Weight of the World),” which debuts on Sunday on HBO. Directed by ...
