Honolulu Film Awards

The Honolulu Film Awards (HFA) are international film awards granted to independent films in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.

Honolulu Film Awards
Location	Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Country	United States
Website	honolulufilmawards.com

Winners

2012

• Grand Jury Award: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (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)

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 Priest