Honolulu Film Awards

Winners

2012

• Grand Jury Award: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy
• Special Jury Award: Menschenliebe
• Special Jury Award: Viti
• Special Jury Award: Strings
• Jury Price: Strings
• Jury Price: Volunteer
• Jury Price: Marathon Boy
• Jury Price: 40 West
• Best Feature Film: A Little Bit Zombie
• Best of Hawaii: Go for Broke! Memories of Hawai'ian Japanese'Niseis
• Best Animation: 8 Second Dance
• Best Biographiy: Randy Parsons: American Luthier
• Best Comedy: Hi Honey
• Best Coming of Age: The Green Rush
• Best Crime: Dot Got Shot
• Best Director: Wendy Elkin
• Best Documentary Feature: Italy: Love It or Leave It
• Best Documentary Short: Birds of the Rainforest
• Best Educational Film: Though I'm Not Perfect
• Best Environmental Film: Carbon for Water
• Best Family Film: Giant Monsters Attack Hawaii!
• Best Foreign Film: Tokyo Playboy Club
• Best Historical Film: 7 Years Underground: A 60's Tale
• Best Independent Short: Slip Cue
• Best Music Video: Oh Luv
• Best Sci-Fi: The Kook
• Best Screenplay: Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
• Best Short Film: Best Man
• Best Television Pilot: Actors Anonymous
• Best Thriller: Fractured Minds
• Best Action Sports: Still By Numbers
• Best Drama: Masque
• Best Mockumentary: Roomies
• Best Student Film: After School

  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