Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 6, 1 June 1992 — Big Island film festival coordinator named [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Big Island film festival coordinator named

Kaniu Kinimaka-Stocksdale has been named Big lsland Coordinator for the 1992 Hawai'i lnternational Film Festival. She will work with the film festival's Neighbor Islands coordinator, Didi Chang. Attendance at the film festival on the Big

lsland more than doubled last year, with eombined 1991 and 1992 turnouts totaling 17,300. Kinimaka-Stocksdale is actively involved in the Big Island's film industry and serves as executive administrator of the Big Island Film and Video Association. She also handles loeahon coordinating for productions through her 10-year-old Kaniu K. Enterprises.

Assisting Kinimaka-Stocksdale will be: Brooke MeMahon, R.J. Kirchner appraisers, West Hawai'i coordinator; Cherie Longanecker, C. Longanecker & Associates, East Hawai'i coordinator; Bob Alder and Mary Willocks, Palaee Theater, technical coordination and film logistics, East Hawai'i; Noel Black Ackerman, Ackerman and Black, and C.J. Kimberly, C.J. Kimberly Realtors film logistics, West Hawai'i; and Helen Kobayashi, district resource teacher, Social Studies, Department of Education liaison.

Other members of the 1992 Hawaii Island Advisory Committee are Julie Hugo, development committee chairperson, Waikoloa Land Company and Big Island Group; Paula Helfrich, Hawai'i Island Eeonomie Development Board; Marni Herkes, Kona-

Kohala Chamber of Commerce; Lani Kahawaii, eeonomie development chairperson, Hawai'i Island Chamber of Commerce; Pam Souza, Consolidated Theatres Co. Ltd.; Pudding Lassiter, Wailoa Art Center. Also: Esther Cazimero, director of marketing and sales, Hawai'i Naniloa Hotel; Myrna Segawa, reservations manager, Hilo Hawaiian Hotel; C. Ilese Levitt, Volcano Art Center; Randall Neumann, Akebono Theatre; Joe Demoruelle, Sandy Demoruelle, Naalehu Theatre; Pat Rocco, Puna Chamber of Commerce; Miek Kalber, Tropical Visions Video, ine. Ex-officio members of the advisory committee are: Millicent Kim, Department of Research and Development, County of Hawai'i; Ken Johnston, Hawai'i Visitors Bureau; and Miehelle Wong-Wilson, Big Island Coordinator, Department of Business and Eeonomie Development. The Hawai'i International Film Festival, founded in 1981 by the East-West Center, became an independent, non-profit corporation in 1990.

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