Scaling Up: Hawai‘i's Food Future
2022 | 27 mins | English
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, local farmers, entrepreneurs, elected officials and other stakeholders share their vision for growing Hawai‘iʻs agricultural sector with the aim of increasing the state’s food supply and diversifying the economy.
Scaling Up: Hawai‘i's Food Future captures a crucial juncture in Hawai‘i’s future in the movement for a paradigm shift to sustainable agriculture.
This short documentary was commissioned by
ThinkTech Hawai‘i and funded by the Cooke Foundation.
For more information about this production, contact us at:
PBS Hawai‘i is streaming the film on its YouTube page from May 19, 2022 through June 2, 2022.
ThinkTech Hawai‘i did an interview with director Kimberlee Bassford before the film's world premiere.
Watch it here.
Below is a list of known screenings of the film.
Maui Film Festival, Online, July 3-30, 2023
PBS Hawai‘i, rebroadcast, 2023
Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Nevada City and Grass Valley, CA, February 17-18, 2023
United Nations Day, Church of the Crossroads of Honolulu, co-sponsored by United Nations University Regional Center of Expertise (UNU-RCE) Education for Sustainable Development, Hawai‘i Institute for Human Rights and United Nations Association - USA Honolulu, Hawai‘i, October 24, 2022
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa's Better Tomorrow Speaker Series, September 8, 2022
PBS Hawai‘i, broadcast premiere, May 19, 2022
Hawai‘i International Film Festival, World premiere online during the festival, April 15-24, 2022
Director/Producer/Writer/Editor
Kimberlee Bassford
Executive Producers
Jay Fidell
Carol Mon Lee
Director of Photography
Valerie Narte
Narrator
J. Maki‘ilei Ishihara
Motion Graphics Artist
Mahima Tuladhar
Additional Camera
Kimberlee Bassford
Researcher
Kathleen Zane
Audio Post Production
Hank Gonzalez
Coloring
Gerard Elmore
Featuring
Jason Brand, Kō Hana Hawaiian Agricole Rum
Dylan Butterbaugh, Mānoa Chocolate Hawai‘i
Tamara Butterbaugh, Mānoa Chocolate Hawai‘i
Nicholas Comerford, University of Hawaii College for Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources
Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Hawai‘i State Senate
Keali‘i Figueroa, Leilehua High School
Jackie Freitas, Leilehua High School
Brendon Lau, Mari's Gardens
Todd Low, Hawai‘i State Department of Agriculture
Michael Roberts, University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization
Glenn Wakai, Hawai‘i State Senate
Denise Yamaguchi, Hawai‘i Agricultural Foundation
Archival Courtesy Of
Donovan M. Dela Cruz
Farish Media
Hawai‘i Agricultural Foundation
Hawai‘i State Archives
Hawai‘i Tourism Authority
Island of Hawai‘i Visitors Bureau (IHVB)
Kō Hana Hawaiian Agricole Rum
Mākaha Studios
Mānoa Chocolate Hawai‘i
Pond5
Music
“Hawaiian Skies”
Courtesy of Jeff Peterson
Thanks
Alexia Akbay
Jonathan Bassford
Michael Bassford
Naleea Bassford
David Cho
Teves Freitas
Jill Friedman
Dot Fujinaga
Armando Garcia-Ortega
Dick Jones
Kerry Kakazu
Donna Kimura
Cheng-Sheng Lee
Brian Miyamoto
Wayne Murphy
Robert Pennybacker
Maria Sabio
Neil Sims
Laurence Sombardier
Allison Tong
Shan Tsutsui
David Wong
Stephanie Whalen
Scaling Up: Hawai‘i’s Food Future is a co-production of ThinkTech Hawai‘i and Making Waves Films LLC, with partial funding provided by Cooke Foundation, Limited.
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