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Honolulu run
will be in filmScenes from Sunday's Honolulu Marathon will bookend a Japanese-made movie about a teenage pop star's battle with leukemia and her dream of running in a marathon. "Road 88," which refers to the punishing but life-giving pilgrimage to the 88 temples of Shikoku, is scheduled for release in Japan in July. The Gahna Production Studios crew will shoot the main character registering for the race at the Outrigger Reef on the Beach Hotel, standing at the Ala Moana/Queen Street Extension starting line, and running over the Waikiki, Diamond Head and Hawaii Kai portions of the 26.2-mile marathon route. The docudrama is based on the plight of Japanese pop singing star Eri Murakawa, who is in remission. She plays the lead role but her name is changed to Aska. The 75-minute, $1.9 million film will spend about $110,000 here for the five-minute footage. ...
Trans World International is filming the Vans Triple Crown events for Fox Sports Net and NBC Sports, to be broadcast early next year. Film crews are also here from England, France and Australia. MTV is following the women's event, a London-based film team is covering the Eddie Aikau big wave contest and a French crew is shooting the Sunset Beach and Banzai Pipeline competitions. ...
Maui County and Akaku-Maui Community Television have announced a joint Artist-In-Residence Lab project -- AIRLab TV -- to provide mentoring and peer review for Maui's film and videomakers. Video artists Jay April and Lou DiLiberto, faculty-curators for the pilot program, have issued an open call for video artists to meet at Akaku studios (333 Dairy Road, Kahului) from 6 to 8 p.m. today. Maui County Film Commissioner Benita Brazier said AIRLab TV intends to provide a creative forum for local video artists, with the important added component of exhibit space and production support for multimedia expression to encourage development of community television programming for Maui County.
AIRLab TV video artists -- resident or visiting artists on Maui, Molokai and Lanai -- will receive exhibit space from Akaku's experimental TV channel XTV 54. AIRLab TV will be broadcast on XTV 54 throughout Maui and Kalawao counties, beginning Dec. 22, exclusively on Oceanic Time Warner Cable. For information, contact Akaku-Maui Community Television at 871-5554 or Film Commissioner Benita Brazier at 808-270-7710.
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