{"id":148834,"date":"2021-09-28T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=148834"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:57:13","slug":"animation-alums-spotlight-local-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/28\/animation-alums-spotlight-local-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation alums to take spotlight at local festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_39303\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pvRj9Y6692U?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"The P\u0101kal\u0101 Kids - Animated Short Film Trailer\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><small>Trailer for <em>The P\u0101kal\u0101 Kids<\/em>, directed by Gavin Arucan. <\/small><\/p>\n<p>Recent graduates from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/acm.hawaii.edu\/\">Academy of Creative Media<\/a> (<abbr>ACM<\/abbr>) will present screenings of their short films at the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiibookandmusicfestival.com\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Book and Music Festival<\/a> this fall. The virtual event will give audiences a glimpse of their animated works that range from traditional Hawaiian <span aria-label=\"moolelo\">mo&#699;olelo<\/span> (stories) to a film about two <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> kids on the run to Waimea Canyon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148846\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-acm-pali-lanes-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Woman smiling\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-acm-pali-lanes-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-acm-pali-lanes-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-acm-pali-lanes.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotional image for Briana Smith&#8217;s <em>Welcome to the Lanes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><abbr>ACM<\/abbr> alumni <strong>Briana Smith<\/strong>, <strong>Kalilinoe Detwiler<\/strong> and <strong>Gavin Arucan<\/strong>, who is now a lecturer at the academy, will be featured in a panel, Innovation Future&#8212;Academy for Creative Media Animation and Video Showcase, on October 7 at 4 p.m. The livestream event is open to the public. (<a href=\"https:\/\/sched.co\/m74v\">Register online<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Margulies<\/strong>, an assistant professor at <abbr>ACM<\/abbr>, known for creating hand-painted animated films, will moderate the online panel session.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is most gratifying to have our <abbr>ACM<\/abbr> filmmakers in the spotlight,&rdquo; Marguiles exclaimed. &ldquo;They have worked hard to make engaging films that address their unique perspectives and cultures while also invoking the universal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After the screenings, the filmmakers will be on hand for a question and answer session.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At the Academy for Creative Media, we seek to empower students to tell their own, original and authentic stories, especially those of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, Asia and the Pacific which are at the heart of <abbr>ACM<\/abbr>&#8216;s mission. The overall goal of our program is to nourish the individual voices and talent of our students so they can be successful in the film and television industries both on our island home and beyond,&rdquo; said <strong>Lisette Flanary<\/strong>, an associate professor at <abbr>ACM<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<h2>More about the filmmakers<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148843\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-acm-pakala-kids-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Girl standing in front of the sky\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-acm-pakala-kids-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-acm-pakala-kids-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-acm-pakala-kids.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from <em>The P\u0101kal\u0101 Kids<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arucan currently storyboards on the web series, <em>Helluva Boss<\/em> and has directed several animated short films, including <em>The P\u0101kal\u0101 Kids<\/em>, <em>Pua Warriors<\/em> and <em>Sina Ma Tinirau<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith co-directed a film that was featured at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> International Film Festival, and directed a film screened in Shanghai, China through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\/smartscholarship\/\"><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> SMART Scholarship Program<\/a>. In the summer of 2020, she completed a second documentary. She also directed the film, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fp.hiff.org\/films\/detail\/welcome_to_the_lanes_2020\">Welcome to the Lanes<\/a><\/em>, about a woman who runs a program for special needs young adults at Pali Lanes in Windward <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>As a kanaka artist and scholar, Detwiler explores paths of cultural perseverance by expressing ancestral knowledge in the present through animation and creative writing. She animates Hawaiian <span aria-label=\"moolelo\">mo&#699;olelo<\/span> for Indigenous productions.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiibookandmusicfestival.com\/schedule\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Book and Music Festival website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is an example of <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goals of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=20\">Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=12\">Becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), two of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\">2015&#8211;25 Strategic Plan<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briana Smith, Kalilinoe Detwiler and Gavin Arucan will present screenings of their short films at the 2021 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Book and Music Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[112,1480,1466,1465,9,56],"class_list":["post-148834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-academy-for-creative-media","tag-manoa-academic-innovation-engaged-learning","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-native-hawaiian-place-of-learning","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148852,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148834\/revisions\/148852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}