Hanauma: He Wahi Loli Mau Interlocking Bay: A Place of Continuous Transformation 2025 19 minutes color and sound  

Hanauma: He Wahi Loli Mau (2025) is an experimental educational program composed of an eclectic mix of audiovisual

material. Through animations, a public service announcement, underwater adventures, portraits of sea, land, and sky, field recordings and soundtracks the short film weaves together different interpretations of place across time. Hanauma: He Wahi Loli Mau visualizes and amplifies creation stories and lived experiences of Hanauma Bay in the ahupuaʻa of Maunalua on the island of Oʻahu for culturally diverse audiences while remaining deeply rooted in the particularities of Hawaiʻi.

Directed by grassroots film initiative kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Drew K. Broderick), Hanauma: He Wahi Loli Mau was made in collaboration with local and international artists and filmmakers including: Shinya Akutagawa, Colleen Kimura, Ann Marie Nālani Kirk, Sebastian “Sabby” Sayegh, and Noah Keone Viernes as well as members of the artist collective SnorkelClub (Aiala Rickard, Mele Hamasaki, Josh Tengan, Lise Michelle Suguitan Childers, Richard Hamasaki and Cathie Valdovino).

Hanauma: He Wahi Loli Mau was produced as part of WAHI PANA: Storied Places (2025-2028), a temporary public art project of the City and County of Honolulu Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts (MOCA) and a winner of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge. Mahalo to everyone at MOCA and the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve as well as to Puʻuhonua Society and Oʻahu arts communities at large for your support of this project. We are especially grateful to Marion Cadora, Donnie Cervantes, Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina, Ann Marie Nālani Kirk, Lynette Liu, Renee Wallace-Silberstein, Aaron Hansen, Alec Singer, and Emma Broderick.