Erin Lau

Follow the dedicated, heroic, and adrenaline-seeking lifeguards of the North Shore of O'ahu as they save people's lives in the difficult and often life-threatening conditions of Hawaii's Seven Mile Miracle.

On Wednesday, July 17th 2019, a heavily armed police force arrested 36 Native Hawaiian kūpuna peacefully protecting Maunakea from desecration. The actions from that day sparked an international outcry and brought new life to the ongoing movement for Native Hawaiians’ rights for self-determination.

An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.

At dawn, Kelsey Akioka hikes out onto the Kalapana lava fields with a camera in hand and 80 lbs of gear on his back. We observe his methodical photography process amid one of nature’s most beautiful and chaotic events. Under the shade of a pop-up tent, he sells these photos at a small makeshift marketplace to apathetic tourists. By the end of the day, Kelsey returns home, exhausted and worn, to his son and elderly father. When he learns his friend is sacrificing his passion and moving away from home to pursue a better life for his family, Kelsey begins to question his own choices. As his frustrations spill into his home life, Kelsey must confront the turmoil stirring within him.

Rom-com obsessed teen Christine has always longed for the picture-perfect romance - but she's soon confronted with the fact that her ideal prince charming might actually be a princess charming instead.

Set in rural Hawaii, a Native Hawaiian girl must confront her father after he enters her beloved pet in a dog fight. The film explores the cultural and socio-economic strife that burdens many communities in Hawaii, but at its heart, it is a coming-of-age tale of a young woman who makes the difficult realization that to save her family, she must stand on her own.

Full length film based on the award winning short film of the same title. When the massive Thirty Meter Telescope is proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, an uprising of kiaʻi (protectors) in Hawaiʻi and around the world dedicate their lives to protecting the sacred mountain from destruction. Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, Standing Above the Clouds explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural traditions.

Dear Aloha is a short documentary profiling Diasporic Hawaiians living thousands of miles away from home. Dear Aloha shows how aloha sustains our people amidst distance, loss, and longing.

In a span of less than seven years, top organizations and publications including Time Magazine, Interscope Records, The Olympics, Filmmaker Magazine, Variety Magazine, the UFC, Bellator MMA and Major League Baseball have all featured the homegrown talents from one of the most unsuspecting of places…a small Pacific island only thirty seven miles long and five miles wide; the island of Guam, USA. Talent Town is a thought-provoking journey through Guam’s landscape of homegrown talent. Directors Don and Kel Muña conduct over thirty exclusive interviews with some of Guam’s most notable residing talent.

What does a young Maori girl do when violence stains her childhood and family?