Executive Producer
Tanoai Reed
Kahuku High School graduate 1991.
With 28 years of experience in the movie industry, Tanoai Reed is a stuntman, actor, and producer. He is best known as the stunt double for his cousin Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Tanoai Reed has worked in over 50 movies and 8 television shows. His movie stunt work includes Red Notice, Black Adam, Jungle Cruise, Jumanji, Fast & Furious, Iron Man 2, Hercules, Get Smart, Doom, Sky Scraper, San Andreas, Waterworld and the Scorpion King. Tanoai was an actor in NCIS Hawaii, Hawaii Five-O, Bay Watch and a music video for Black Eyed Peas.
Tanoai Reed was a star football player at Kahuku High School and attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa on a football scholarship.
Tanoai Reed https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715708/
Photo: Vecteezy
Director
Brenton Awa
KAHUKU High School graduate 2004.
Brenton Awa was the youngest Native Hawaiian television news Anchor in Honolulu. He was a Journalist/Anchor for ABC affiliate KITV News in Honolulu from 2013-2021. Brenton started his television news career at CBS affiliate Hawaii News Now
in 2008.
Brenton Awa was born in Ka'a'awa and was the Hawaii State Wrestling Champion from Kahuku High and Intermediate School in 2004. He was awarded a wrestling scholarship and earned a Communications and Leadership degree from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 2008.
Brenton Awa
Brenton frequently wore shorts and slippers under the TV anchor desk to remind himself he's a country boy from Kahuku.
Cinematographer
Bradina Anae
Kahuku High School graduate 2017
Our film's Director of Photography has worked on productions with Discovery, Roku TV, HGTV, Amazon Studios, LL Bean Productions, and Rick Bartalini Productions. She brings a Gen-Z perspective to our production shoots.
At Kahuku High School Bradina Anae was Hawaii State Shot Put Champion and in college she was Hawaii and Utah's Powerlifting Champion. She earned a degree in Film Cinematography from Bringham Young University in 2021.
Camera
Elyjah Hoapili-Kreutz
Surf Videographer
Ely produces videos for "Da Hui" a group of Native Hawaiian surfers who were known as the "Black Shorts" ·on the North Shore.. He specializes in telling stories from the people of the North Shore.
Ely Hoapili-Kreutz graduated from St. Louis in 2015.
Camera & Editor
Troy Gomes
With over 25 years of experience in the film and television industry, Troy has created numerous movie trailers, TV commercials and promos in Los Angeles and Hawai'i. He is a local boy who spent a decade working in LA at Fox Sports and at an award-winning creative agency in Beverly Hills. Upon returning home to Hawai'i, Troy has worked for television stations KITV and Hawaii News Now. He currently creates, directs, and edits some of the top TV promos and commercials in Hawai'i.
Troy Gomes graduated from Pearl City High School in 1990.
Research & Writing
Gloria Borland
Imiloa Borland
Imiloa Borland
Gloria Borland has 30 years experience in producing biographies. She grew up in Hawaii and spent decades in media in Washington DC. She created, produced, and hosted a national television show profiling minority entrepreneurs who overcame incredible odds to realize their dreams. Her series aired on over 150 PBS stations including WNET in New York, KCET in Los Angeles, WETA in Washington DC. The Wall Street Journal sponsored her television series.
Since moving back home, Gloria is committed to telling the incredible stories of people from Hawaii who have inspired the world. Gloria researched Barack Obama Made in Hawaii and produced Senator Inouye Told By His Son in 2021 and Patsy Mink Untold Story in 2022.
Gloria Borland graduated from Radford High School in 1974. She attended George Washington University in Washington, DC and worked for Senator Inouye.
Gloria currently lives in Ka'a'awa and is leading the effort to open
a new museum in downtown Honolulu. www.InspirationHawaiiMuseum.com
Gloria Borland - www.GloriaCBorland.com
Imiloa Borland
Imiloa Borland
Imiloa Borland
Imiloa Borland is a writer and public speaker who brings a Gen-Z perspective to productions. Imiloa Borland worked as a production assistant for Barack Obama Made in Hawaii, and was the editor for Senator Inouye Told By His Son and Patsy Mink Untold Story.
Imiloa was born in Washington DC and raised in Hawaii living in Foster Village, Mānoa and Ka'a'awa.
Imiloa Borland was a Polynesian Keiki dancer for seven years at a Halau in Washington DC. She performed Hawaiian Hula and dances from Samoa, New Zealand and Tahiti.
Imiloa Borland graduated from Punahou School in 2020 where
she was selected Punahou's Holokū Queen. Imiloa received a scholarship to attend The New School in New York City where she is studying creative writing and global studies.
Imiloa Borland - www.ImiloaBorland.com