UH alum’s short film picked as PBS Online Film Festival favorite
Erin Lau’s short-film The Moon and the Night was selected as the favorite film Juried Prize winner of the 2019 PBS Online Film Festival by a panel of eight jury members.
UH West Oʻahu graduate first woman of Samoan ancestry to hold city auditorium manager post
Janelle Saole took a chance on a new creative media program at UH West Oʻahu, and has thrived with the experiences she gained.
Student work screened at premier computer graphics conference
Ten minutes of student work was submitted, including LAVA's Destiny-Class CyberCANOE 2D and 3D character animation scene assignments and animated short films.
UH Mānoa students travel to Shanghai for filmmaking SMART Exchange
During the filmmaking workshops, five Academy for Creative Media students along with Shanghai University’s Shanghai Film Academy students got hands on and co-produced two short films.
Alumna and Hollywood filmmaker to speak at UH Mānoa
Charlize Toratani, a graduate of the UH Mānoa's Academy for Creative Media, will speak on her pathway to a successful career in film making and advocacy.
UH West Oʻahu’s Sumiye selected for prestigious filmmaking fellowship
Sumiye is one of a dozen filmmakers who were selected for the 18-month Firelight Documentary Lab fellowship and hopes to finish A Paradise Lost, her first feature-length documentary.
Construction on Academy for Creative Media building at UH West Oʻahu begins
Work on the $33.3 million, two-story building is scheduled for substantial completion in June 2020, and will be the seventh structure built on the Kapolei campus.
Disney’s Moana in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi to be available to schools across the state
Moana will be distributed to schools across the state as the culminating act of a year-long production that strives to encourage students to learn the Hawaiian language.
Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds merges science, education, music and art
Hawaiʻi students had the opportunity to see and hear the diversity of Hawaiʻi’s native birds as well as feel the loss of extinction and the urgency for conservation at the Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds.
Hawaiian language Moana premieres
Cast members of the ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi-version of Disney’s Moana, including Auliʻi Cravalho, walked the blue carpet for its premiere at World Oceans Day on June 10, 2018.
