Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi - Sancia Nash
The Reel Wāhine of Hawai'i short film series chronicles talented and pioneering women filmmakers who tell Hawai‘i stories uniquely through a camera lens. Sancia is an emerging voice in independent filmmaking from Kihei, Maui. Her films are rooted in oral histories, archives and acts of translation.
- Filmmaker(s)
- Meleanna Aluli Meyer
- Category
- Short Film
- Subject Matter
- Women, Biography
- Featured In
- Pacific Pulse
- Region
- Hawai'i
- Length
- 9 Minutes
- Year
- 2024
- Website
- https://www.reelwahineofhawaii.org/
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Sancia Miala Shiba Nash is a filmmaker from Kīhei, Maui. Through time-based media, she works collaboratively to amplify intersectional stories of place. Her practice is guided by oral histories, archives, and acts of translation. Currently she is helping to catalog Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina’s moving image collection, as a project of Puʻuhonua Society. In 2020, Sancia cofounded kekahi wahi, a grassroots film initiative dedicated to documenting transformations across Hawaiʻi.
Meleanna Aluli Meyer - Writer/Director
Meleanna Aluli Meyer is an avid creative in many media, life learner— and student of all things of culture and place. Mea Hawaiʻi, ʻike Hawaiʻi, moʻolelo Hawaiʻi; Material, wisdom traditions, stories and history, are passions. She is a filmmaker of necessity, as stories from community and family werenʻt much focused on or told in the 80s. She waded into filmmaking with Les Blank, creating the documentary Puamana (1991), ʻOnipaʻa (1996), Assisting David Kalama, Hoʻokuʻikahi- To Unify as One (1998), with her kumu John Keola Lake, Maunakea, Sacred Mountain, Sacred Conduct (2020) with Tom Coffman. Says Meyer about her work, “Voice matters- our unique stories and songs matter.” She is an educator and artist by training, whose love of all things Hawaiian keeps her grounded in Hawaiʻi nei.
Shaneika Ahuilar - Camera and Audio
Born and raised on the island of Oʻahu, cinematographer Shaneika Aguilar has always been fascinated with cameras and the ability to capture and materialize a moment in time. She is best known for her work on independent films as well as branded content.
Lisa Altieri - Editor
Lisa’s career in media arts spans more than 35 years and encompasses working at TV stations, for advertising agencies, non-profit and educational organizations and independent producers. She has produced and/or edited seven full-length documentaries about social and environmental issues that have been seen on PBS stations around the country and featured at film festivals and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., many of them award-winning. Her passion for storytelling has brought voices and perspectives of Native Hawaiian and other under-served communities to the screen and given them an audience that allows a deeper understanding and connection to shared issues and values.
Martha Nicholas - Intern and Production Assistant
Martha Nicholas is a filmmaker who was born and raised in Honolulu. She graduated from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa with a double major in Creative Media and American Studies. Alongside interning for Regional Emmy™ award Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi, Nicholas has experience as a cinematographer and assistant editor ‘Ilima Lady documentary. She is also a previous Wāhine in Film Lab fellow and a filmmaking mentor for Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking. Nicholas continues to explore multiple avenues within the film industry.
Social Media
Instagram: @hiwomeninfilmmaking
Facebook: @Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking
