Filmed on the Big Island, the movie is crafted entirely out of Native Hawaiian culture, including settings, chants, legends, songs and myths. The group received some production assistance from G.B. Hajim, a Big Island cinematographer who helped turn some of Ontai's creative visions into reality with eye-opening special effects. A lot of fun. Guerrero, a federal firefighter at Schofield Barracks and Iokepa's fiance in real life, said the toughest part was memorizing the poeticized Hawaiian language lines used in the film. You have to remind yourself to use different inflections.
Different words have different meanings when they are pronounced a certain way.
We didn't come into this as filmmakers, but we'll do anything we can to get the language out there. The film, which has its debut at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Hawai ' i Convention Center, will have English subtitles. It repeats 1 p.m. Saturday at the Signature Dole Cannery No. 4. Showings also are planned next week in Kaua ' i, Maui, Hilo and Kona. The Honolulu Advertiser, a division of Gannett Co .