Kupuna – An Interactive Documentary About the Bridge to the Past of Laie, Hawaii
Nathaniel Hansen: professor, director, producer, and friend.
A close friend of mine, Nathaniel Hansen, is working on a documentary focused on the elderly Polynesian of my home town of Laie, Hawaii. Nathaniel has done previous work focusing on the bridge the elderly create to the past in any community. Now he’s taking that concept and placing it over the unique and amazing place I grew up on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii. The title of the documentary is Kūpuna and it is a story that is begging to be told, but can only be told through the voices of those who have lived through so much of the 20th century and into the new millennium.
In Nathaniel’s own words, Kūpuna is an interactive documentary portrait of Laie, a small Hawaiian town on the island of O’ahu...