HONOLULU Short Film Competition

HONOLULU

Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1

Flaming lobsters and menstruation woes plague 12-year-old Yuki’s doomed Hawai’ian beach vacation. As tensions boil over, she, her aloof father and elegant grandmother battle bright red sunburns and the seemingly mundane family scuffles that manage to leave behind the deepest scars.

Maya Tanaka is a Japanese and Lebanese-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her work aims to make complex emotional spaces viscerally tangible.

Maya Tanaka
baby demon
maya.tee@gmail.com

Details

Country: USA

Year: 2022

Director: Maya Tanaka

Screenwriter: Maya Tanaka

Producers: Shuchi Talati, Darrin Kaneshiro

Executive Producers: Jasper Lo, Karin Tanaka

Director of Photography: Jih-E Peng

Editor: Kent Bassett

Costume Designer: Corey Mansfield

Music: Mark Van Hare

Cast/Featuring: Honori Shinozaki

Running Time (minutes): 15

Language: English

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