Honolulu Film Awards

The Honolulu Film Awards (HFA) are international film awards granted to independent films in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.

Winners

2012^[1]

• Grand Jury Award: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (Director: Rob Heydon)
• Special Jury Award: Menschenliebe (Director: Alexander Tuschinski)
• Special Jury Award: Viti (Fiji) (Director: Dustin Bancroft)
• Special Jury Award: Strings (Director: Mark Dennis & Ben Foster)
• Jury Price: Strings (Director: Mark Dennis & Ben Foster)
• Jury Price: Volunteer (Director: Mariah Wilson)
• Jury Price: Marathon Boy (Director: Gemma Atwal)
• Jury Price: 40 West (Director: Dana Packard)
• Best Feature Film: A Little Bit Zombie (Director: Casey Walker)
• Best of Hawaii: Go for Broke! Memories of Hawai'ian Japanese'Niseis (Director: Hiroyuki Matsumoto)
• Best Animation: 8 Second Dance (Director: Trey Moya / Howard Cook)
• Best Biographiy: Randy Parsons: American Luthier (Director: David Aldrich)
• Best Comedy: Hi Honey (Director: Peter A. M. Henderson)
• Best Coming of Age: The Green Rush (Director: Jason Edwards)
• Best Crime: Dot Got Shot (Director: Carlos Ramos Jr. / Honey Lauren)
• Best Director: Wendy Elkin (Painting Bolinas)
• Best Documentary Feature: Italy: Love It or Leave It (Director: Gustav Hofer / Luca Ragazzi)
• Best Documentary Short: Birds of the Rainforest (Director: Jim Denny)
• Best Educational Film: Though I'm Not Perfect (Director: Stacey Sargeant)
• Best Environmental Film: Carbon for Water (Director: Evan Abramson / Carmen Elsa / Lopez Abramson)
• Best Family Film: Giant Monsters Attack Hawaii! (Director: Dane Neves)
• Best Foreign Film: Tokyo Playboy Club (Director: Yosuke Okuda)
• Best Historical Film: 7 Years Underground: A 60's Tale (Director: Jason M. Solomon)
• Best Independent Short: Slip Cue (Director: Robin Kupferman)
• Best Music Video: Oh Luv (Director: MAGZ Magda Sztompka)
• Best Sci-Fi: The Kook (Director: Nat Livingston / Johnson Gregory Mitnick)
• Best Screenplay: Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (Director: Benjamin Nolot)
• Best Short Film: Best Man (Director: Edward Figueroa)
• Best Television Pilot: Actors Anonymous (Director: Bryan Stratte)
• Best Thriller: Fractured Minds (Director: Frank Battiston)
• Best Action Sports: Still By Numbers (Director: Bec Kingma)
• Best Drama: Masque (Director: Robert Hatch)
• Best Mockumentary: Roomies (Director: Christabel Savalas)
• Best Student Film: After School (Director: John Wakayama Carey)

2012 Gold Kahuna Winners

Feature Films

• Bedouin - Directed By: Igor Voloshin
• Brush - Directed By: Shiyan Zheng
• Currency - Directed By: Brad Rosier
• Five Hours South - Directed By: Mark Bacci
• Off Shore - Directed By: Sven J. Matten
• Red Scare - Directed By: William Dautrick
• Seven Eves - Directed By: Mark Nordhagen
• Weeding Out - Directed By: Georgy Kao

Action Sports Films

• Silent Night - Directed By: Bec Kingma

Animation Films

• 5 Minutes Each - Directed By:Vojin Vasovic
• The Dream of Ore Magi - Directed By: Evan Curtis

Documentary Films

• 47 Miles: March to Destiny - Directed By: Gregg Cummins
• Between Today and Tomorrow - Directed By: Junko Kobayashi
• Boom Varietal - Directed By: Sky Pinnick
• Flight To The Wall - Directed By: Bill Matson
• Knocking on the Devil's Door - Directed By: Gary Null
• Orchids - Directed By: Phoebe Hart
• The World's Most Fashionable Prison - Directed By: Chun Kit Mak
• Too Sane For This World - Directed By: William Davenport
• Valmara - Directed By: Christoph Vieth
• Wigge's Tauschrausch - Directed By: Michael Wigge

Hawaii Films

• Breathe Life - Directed By: Antje Beyen

Music Videos

• Chapel Song - Directed By: Matthew Mills
• Eye of the Storm - Directed By: Christopher Alender
• Mutant Calculator - Directed By: Alexander Tuschinski

Screenplay Competition

• Apparition - Written By: Roi Costa
• Devil's Valley Justice - Written By: Harold Brown
• Dirty Business - Written By: Haik Hakobian
• Full-Metal Alchemist - Written By: Mathew Brengman
• Loveband - Written By: Nicola Pedrozzi
• Lucky Numbers - Written By: Aimee Garabics

Short Films

• 2-Star - Directed By: Jacob Halajian
• Absent - Directed By: Richie Siegel
• Delivered - Directed By: Charles Willis
• Just Three Words - Directed By: Graeme Finlayson
• Mary and Bill - Directed By: Andrew Napier
• Men Who Don't Work - Directed By: Alexander Atkins & Andrew Franks
• Room Service - Directed By: Tariq Nasir
• The Audition - Directed By: Matthew Toffolo
• The Maiden and the Princess - Directed By: Ali Scher
• Work Hard, Play Harder - Directed By: James Newman

Student Films

• Christmas Reeve - Directed By: Mateusz Subieta
• Look to the Cookie - Directed By: Lindsay Lindenbaum
• Speak Out The Documentary - Directed By: Alex Vander Vlugt
• The Monster - Directed By: Matthew Childs
• Why Does God Hate Me? - Directed By: Joel Ashton McCarthy

Television Pilots

• MILF Money - Directed By: Aaron Preist

References