Hawaii Book & Music Festival

Laura Margulies has been creating hand-painted animated films and commissioned work for 30 years.Her work combines motion, color, texture, live action, rhythm and sound to create award-winning,expressive media that has been screened worldwide. Laura recently completed a new short... Read More →

Gavin Arucan is a Hawaiʻi-based storyboard artist and filmmaker with a B.A. in Animation from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Currently, Gavin storyboards on the web series, Helluva Boss. Previously, they have directed several animated short films, including The Pākalā Kids... Read More →

Briana Smith is a recent graduate of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Creative Media program. Previously, she co-directed a film that was screened at the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival, directed a film that was screened in Shanghai, China through the UH SMART Program... Read More →

As a kanaka artist and scholar, Kalilinoe Detwiler explores paths of cultural perseverance by expressing ancestral knowledge in the present through animation and creative writing. She is pursuing an English MA at the University of Hawaiʻi and animates Hawaiian moʻolelo for Indigenous... Read More →