Showcase celebrates work of budding isle filmmakers

By Mike Gordon

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 29, 2012

~~<p>Joel Moffett has seen the same thing happen every time he attends a screening of work by the young filmmakers at the Academy for Creative Media, the film school where he teaches screenwriting and directing.</p>
<p>"It's always a revelation to me, a surprise," said Moffett, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa program. "We are telling indigenous, locally based stories that are specific and unique to Hawaii. These are not clichés and not films you have seen before."</p>
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Joel Moffett has seen the same thing happen every time he attends a screening of work by the young filmmakers at the Academy for Creative Media, the film school where he teaches screenwriting and directing.

"It's always a revelation to me, a surprise," said Moffett, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa program. "We are telling indigenous, locally based stories that are specific and unique to Hawaii. These are not clichés and not films you have seen before." Login for more...