Photos from HIFF 2011

HIFF 2011 Photos / Videos // Christopher Hall // November 21, 2011 // no comments

Here is a selection of photos highlighting various events that happened during the 31st Hawaii International Film Festival presented by Halekulani.

Opening Press Conference at RumFire, Sheraton Waikiki.	Opening Night Party at Halekulani
Justin Cravalho, Luke Aguinaldo, Warren Daubert – HumanHand, designers of this year’s HIFF Key Visual.	Featured bartenders at a private Disaronno Amaretto event during the festival.
Meet the Filmmakers reception at RumFire #1	Meet the Filmmakers reception at RumFire #2
An Afternoon With Hawaii 5-0 – Alex O’Laughlin, Daniel Dae Kim & Grace Park	An Afternoon With Hawaii 5-0, held at Halekulani. HIFF executive director Chuck Boller, and programmer Anderson Le with cast and crew from Hawaii 5-0.
Actress Tamlyn Tomita with Chairman of the HIFF Board of Directors, Owen Ogawa and his mother.	Vilcek Foundation Executive Director Rick Kinsel (center) with 4 filmmakers from the American Immigrant Filmmakers on Profile section.
Award winning filmmakers Adam Pesce (Splinters), Prashant Bhargava (Patang), Ruslan Pak (Hanaan) with a representative from awards sponsor Tiffany & Co.	The annual Governor’s Reception, held at Washington Place, where the HIFF awards were announced this year.
HIFF award winning filmmakers and Masato Harada (director of festival hit Chronicles of My Mother) at HIFF’s closing press conference.	Visiting filmmakers enjoying the festival’s closing party at Sam Choy’s Breakfast, Lunch and Crab restaurant.
Alexander Payne, director of HIFF’s Closing Night film THE DESCENDANTS, and Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer of the novel the film was based on.	Honolulu mayor Peter Carlisle and HIFF executive Direcor Chuck Boller present Alexander Payne with this year’s Vision in Film award.