Honolulu Film Awards
The Honolulu Film Awards (HFA) are international film awards granted to independent films in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States. In 2011, James Cunningham was named Best Director for his work on Das Tub. This win was one of more than thirty international awards won by students of Media Design School in 2011 alone, and two of the school's short films have won double accolades at the Honolulu Film Awards. Anjan Das' Banshiwala won the Feature Film Gold Kahuna award in 2011. The Hunatics, a film set on Maui, won a Gold Kahuna award in 2011 as well, as did Rideshare, the first feature film to be recorded entirely on iPhones. Strong Bodies Fight, a documentary film AbOUT the Bengal Bouts, also won a Honolulu Film Award in 2011. Antonio Padovan's Perry St won the Gold Kahuna award one year. In 2012, eight documentary films were given Aloha Accolade awards.
Winners
2012
- Grand Jury Award: Irvine Welsh's [...] (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)