Owner of Maui film studio looks to attract productions

By Mike Gordon

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 10, 2013

~~<p>Just like the farmer in "Field of Dreams," who replaced his Iowa corn field with a baseball diamond, Socrates Buenger has a tight grip on faith.</p>
<p>Buenger, the owner of the recently formed Maui Film Studios, is creating a 21,000-square-foot film and television soundstage in a new concrete building in Kahului. When he's finished — sometime this summer, he hopes — Buenger is convinced Hollywood will come. He's even hinted that productions are already poised to start but he won't say any more than that. This is a competitive business, he said.</p>
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Just like the farmer in "Field of Dreams," who replaced his Iowa corn field with a baseball diamond, Socrates Buenger has a tight grip on faith.

Buenger, the owner of the recently formed Maui Film Studios, is creating a 21,000-square-foot film and television soundstage in a new concrete building in Kahului. When he's finished — sometime this summer, he hopes — Buenger is convinced Hollywood will come. He's even hinted that productions are already poised to start but he won't say any more than that. This is a competitive business, he said. Login for more...