Isle entertainer Moe Keale plays a state judge who by night is a kahuna in a proposed Hawaii-based television series. Photo by George F. Lee, Star-Bulletin

'Aloha Spirit' hopes to fly

By Tim Ryan
Star-Bulletin



A Hawaii independent filmmaker is marketing her three-minute "trailer" to Hollywood television network executives, hoping to find one who will pay for a pilot for a proposed hour-long Hawaii-based series called "Aloha Spirit."

Ingrid Sunday Wang of Lanikai is in Los Angeles completing post production of the trailer that was filmed on Oahu in three days this month. Wang's ISW Productions used a bungalow at the Oahu Film Studio for about two weeks for their production work, said Martha Noyes, the scriptwriter for Wang's story. Wang also directed and produced "Aloha Spirit."

The story is about three recently graduated police academy officers - two men and a woman all of different ethnic groups - assigned to the plainclothes division. The three rookies soon discover that they are being protected physically from fatal injury by some unknown force. The kahuna has the rookies swear an oath that as long as they do not fire a weapon they will be protected from fatal injury.

The kahuna tells them that to fulfill ancient Hawaiian prophesies the aloha spirit must be a way of the land or not only will Hawaii disappear but the earth will die.

The three officers are expert in some form of physical fighting:

The Caucasian character Joshua Adam Tree, portrayed by Sebastian Siegel, is a street brawler.

The Japanese-African-American character of Tye Hiroshi "Hiro" Cole, portrayed by Lorenzo Callender, is an expert in Asian martial arts.

The part-Hawaiian female officer Noelani Goodfellow, played by Tamme Strickland, is expert in lua, an ancient Hawaiian martial art form.

Hawaii entertainers Frank B. Shaner plays police sergeant Anthony Waterston and Moe Keale portrays Moses Kalapawela, a two-part character: a state court judge by day, and a kahuna in his off work hours.

R.M.K. Freitas has the role of the major kahuna, Sam Kapahulu.

If the a network agrees to the pilot production could begin as soon as October, Noyes said.




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