Super Students
Monday, January 5, 1998
Name: Melanie Fields
Age: 17
Position: senior, Kalaheo High School
Pastimes: filmmaking, tennis, choral singing, volunteering at local hospital
Kalaheo High School senior Melanie Fields says her favorite movie these days is "Titanic." Aspiring film director
"I loved the cinematography shots!" Fields said. "It was amazing the things they could tell with that film, the way they were able to integrate computer-
generated graphics and people don't realize it."
An aspiring film director, Fields is also the recipient of an ADAMSVISION Scholar-Leadership Award. ADAMSVISION, a Houston-based film production company, will award Fields $10,000 annually for four years to help with her studies.
Fields and fellow high-schoolers from each of the states and the District of Columbia will be honored at ceremonies in Nashville, Tenn., later this month.
In her prize-winning essay, Fields wrote about her dream of being a successful movie director in the mold of role models Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese.
"She could do it," said John Connelly, director of Kalaheo's communications arts learning center, who has seen Fields' talents. "She ties just a high level of energy with intelligence."
For a History Day submission last year, she and fellow students Justina and Wendy Cross submitted a video on the Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hokule'a.
The video was the only audio-visual submittal from Hawaii to reach the national finals of History Day in Washington, D.C.
By Gordon Y.K. Pang, Star-Bulletin
