Hawaii’s Auli‘i Cravalho will reprise her role as the titular character of the 2016 animated hit movie “Moana” in a Hawaiian-language version, a collaboration between Walt Disney Studios and the University of Hawaii’s Academy for Creative Media.

Casting for additional Hawaiian-speaking roles will begin in the next few weeks, according to a news release from UH-West Oahu.

Disney already made versions of the Polynesian-themed film in Tahitian and Maori languages.

The Academy for Creative Media System is funding and coordinating the project. Participants will include UH professors Puakea Nogelmeier and Haili‘opua Baker, and ethnomusicologist Aaron J. Sala. The film will be re-recorded in Hawaiian at Honolulu Community College’s MELE Studio, engineered by Jon Ross. Producers include Heather Giugni and Sharla Hanaoka of UH-West Oahu, in cooperation with Rick Dempsey of Disney Character Voices International.

Plans call for distributing the redubbed “Moana” to schools throughout the state as a Hawaiian-language educational tool, the release said.

Casting will be overseen by Rachel Sutton. Fluent Hawaiian-language speakers and singers should submit a photo, cellphone number, and link to a Vimeo or YouTube video of them singing/chanting in Hawaiian to acms@hawaii.edu. Friday is the deadline for submissions.

Info: acmsystem.hawaii.edu/moana-dubbing-project-casting/