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The award-winning short, "Waking Mele," by Hawaii-born filmmaker Anne Misawa, will be screened with "Shadow of a Vampire" as part of the Hawai'i International Film Festival Closing Night Program tomorrow. Film festival
curtain closes
with ‘Waking Mele’The closing program begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Hawai'i Theatre Center. Tickets are $7 general and $6 for HIFF Ohana members.
"Waking Mele" is inspired by the myths of the fire goddess Pele and her sister Hi'iaka, as well as the fairy tales "Hansel and Gretel" and "Alice in Wonderland."
The film stars Sara Rivas, Daniel Louis Rivas and William Clearihue.
In the film, Mele, an orphaned teen-ager, tells of the last days spent with her ailing twin brother Egg.
On a road trip to find their childhood home, the teens are joined by a raver kid, a half-Hawaiian boy named Pua, who carries the ashes of his recently deceased father. Pua leads the twins through a Los Angeles wonderland of shoddy shelters to dance clubs on the Hollywood strip. Ultimately, each must find their separate ways "home."
The film, an official selection of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Cinemanila International Film Festival, also won the Best of Show and Best Cinematography awards at the 20th annual Southwest Film Festival and was a Jury Award Winner at the New York Exposition of Shorts this year.
Misawa is a graduate of Punahou School and earned an English degree at the University of Hawai'i.
For more information, call 528-HIFF (4433).
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