Anne Misawa

The romance between two teenage girls quickly manifests as terrifying, violent and inexplicable.

A coming of age romantic drama set in 1972 based on real life events. It is 1972 and muscularly handsome blond Peter heads off to an exclusive Virginia university, unsure of what to expect. He joins a fraternity house where he meets William, a classics major who has a strong attraction to him. Despite their flirting the reserved Peter becomes romantically involved in a menage a trois with his room mate Joe and Joe's girlfriend Bess. When the trio's social bliss is disrupted by a violent episode Peter is taken in and protected by Ian, his poetry professor. recuperating at Ian's idyllic country house, Peter soon falls in love with his hunky professor. Of course, their hot and heavy affair which includes skinny dipping, passionate sex and bathing outdoors is taboo. When jealousy rears its ugly head, Peter and Ian's happiness is threatened.

A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.

A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu telling the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past.

The life and times of a group of twentysomething black gay men living in West Hollywood.

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

Hildur, a young girl from a small fishing village in a remote corner of Iceland, falls for her sister's boyfriend while being stranded with him when the car breaks down.

Lucy, a young Victorian woman in the Old West, is being tormented by nightly visits from an incubus. Her friend Madeleine tries to console her, but is unable to help. A fallen woman, Lucy gets a job singing at the local saloon. However, the Incubus has followed her there; and things take an unexpected turn as Lucy and the Incubus, amidst the rowdy cowboys and saucy can-can girls, have their final showdown.

A precocious nine-year old deals with life after the lost of her mother.

A weird German doctor uses hypnotism, seduction, and criminality to get the better of a trio of spoiled wealthy siblings, in a tribute to old Hollywood Technicolor melodramas.

During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination.

Satire and deconstruction the high art scene with an eyeball-scorching onslaught of mind-blowing narrative madness and honey-laced pathos.

A short drama set on the final remaining sugarcane plantation on Maui. Twelve year-old Nua, identifies with the world through her intensely spiritual connection she has with the land but must find a way to tell her mother about the abuse she has suffered there before it closes forever.

Set in Hawaii, All For Melissa is a touching, beautiful feature film that tells the story of a young man's coming to grips with the reality of his everyday life. It shows that even though you may not get the girl of your dreams, the movie star fantasy; sometimes the girl next door, your best friend, is better than any dream girl ever could be. What sets All For Melissa apart from other films of this genre is the role the landscape, culture, and spirit of the Hawaii plays in the film. This is a love letter to Hawaii, a big aloha, and mahalo to the land and the people of this state.

The film unfolds through the POV of the Palila called Anuenue who stood as the client in 1979 court trials. The legal battle leveraged the Endangered Species Act to protect māmane forests where 2,500 Palila competed with introduced sheep & goats. He explains how they won in court, but are still in jeopardy; in 2024, only 300 Palila remain. Today, a Native Hawaiian conservationist struggles to save them amidst escalating threats of climate change, wildfires, introduced predators, diseases, and governmental neglect.