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‘Lost’ series’
secrets bared

Some of the secrets to be revealed in season two of "Lost": The marooned Flight 815 passengers find the tail section of the plane, as well as the survivors among those who were seated there. And the plane didn't crash by accident, but for a very specific reason. But no one on board caused the crash.

Sawyer (Josh Holloway), wounded in the finale's pirate attack and abandoned in the ocean, isn't dead. The pirates are "the others" on the island that Rousseau (Mira Furlan) warned the castaways about, so that means the kidnapped Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) shouldn't be too far away ...

Maui Film Festival Starz Audience Award Winners: "Howl's Moving Castle" (Best Feature), "March of the Penguins" (Best Documentary Feature), "Our Time Is Up" (Best Short), "All Aboard the Crazy Train" (Best Documentary Short) and "Joe Blow" (Best Animated Short). Filmmaker Jennifer Shiman received the special Starz Ion Award for her "Bunny" shorts.

Filmmaker Don King, whose photography usually is in or underwater, is making a documentary on autism. A 35-minute snippet of the surf-themed film "All Aboard the Crazy Train," starring Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama, on which King was a photographer, will triple in length by August and should be ready for theatrical release.

Other festival notes: Actor Richard Chamberlain, who has relocated from Oahu to Maui, attended Shep Gordon's private party ... Jake Gyllenhaal, who received the festival's inaugural Shining Star award, took surfing lessons from Tide Rivers, son of festival creator/director Barry Rivers. Paparazzi captured the action Saturday at a Kihei beach.

ABC/Touchstone execs attended the festival and talked production business with Honolulu attorneys ...

In other news, the lawsuit brought by April Masini of Masini Television and Film Enterprises and Masini Enterprises in Los Angeles against Honolulu attorney Vito Galati and Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright for alleged breach of fiduciary duty, gross negligence, intentional interference of contractual relations, misrepresentation, fraud, and unjust enrichment, was settled last month. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed ...