Crichton Uale is a Hawaiian and Samoan actor, writer, and producer based in Hawaiʻi, with a career spanning film, television, and live entertainment. His on-screen credits include the feature films Jamojaya, and Hanalei Bay, as well as television appearances in Hawaii Five-0, Hidden America with Jonah Ray, and the Book of Mormon Videos. Most recently, he stars as Curtis in the feature film HomeTown Hero. As a producer, Uale was part of the team behind the award-winning docume

Kaylin Melia George is a Native Hawaiian storyteller whose work spans film, literature, and community. A filmmaker by training, George began her career as an Editor in Tokyo and went on to work at a top-five talent agency before becoming a Resident Writer & Director at a Los Angeles-based production company. Her work grew to encompass narrative film, documentary, and national commercial campaigns, with projects recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and p

Jon Jenks is a writer, producer, and director based in Hawaiʻi. For more than two decades, he has worked across television, documentary, and digital media, with a particular interest in the ways history, culture, and popular storytelling intersect. His work is rooted in an appreciation for the people, music, art, history, and cultures that have shaped the place he calls home. As a producer at PBS Hawaiʻi, Jon has written and produced more than 200 television programs includin

Noa Gardner is a Native Hawaiian playwright born and raised in Kaimuki on the island of O’ahu. He started writing plays at Loyola Marymount University (2016) in a playwriting course taught by a professor named Kelly Younger. With his professor’s encouragement, Noa continued his education at the University of Southern California MFA Dramatic Writing program (2020), where he studied under distinguished playwrights such as Velina Hasu Houston, Oliver J. Mayer, Paula Cizmar, Luis

Born along the famed shores of Makaha, raised in the malu of Mauna Kaʻala, nurtured atop the hill of Kapālama, and swaddled by the Kaiāulu of the unrivaled Waiʻanae Coast, J.J. Kaʻōpua found her place as a peppy ʻōpio during the post-Hawaiian-Renaissance nineties Oʻahu. Back then, Hawaiians were a lot of things: passionate, proud, and maybe even a little pissed off at the unearthed miseducations of culture and history at the hands of American assimilation a century sooner. Mo

Hannah ʻĪʻī-Epstein Hannah Ii-Epstein (she/her) is a Native Hawaiian creative writer and award-winning dramatist from the North Shore of Oʻahu. Her work centers Native Hawaiian identity and LGBTQIA+ experiences, blending cultural tradition with contemporary storytelling across theatre and film. She earned her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University and is the Artistic Director of Nothing Without a Company, a Chicago-based theatre and film company