"Clean Water, Common Ground," a made in Hawaii for TV film, received two 2007 Telly Awards - a silver (top) award for nature/wildlife documentary, and a bronze (second) award for TV documentary. A penetrating look at Hawaii’s struggles to address water quality issues in “paradise,”
The yearly Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, see
http://www.tellyawards.com/
for details. The 27th Annual Telly Awards received over 13,000 entries from major film studios in all 50 states and 5 continents. Fewer than one in ten entries received silver award recognition.
With Aloha spirit and Ohana (family), "native Hawaiians, local residents, commercial developers and university, federal, state and local officials together examine the impacts of point and non-point source pollution taking place...and offer measures that are needed to stem the persistent tide of environmental degradation"
Awards will be presented immediately prior to a private director's screening on Wednesday, 20 June 2007, at The Movie Museum
http://cinematreasures.org/
located at 3566 Harding Ave Suite #4 in Kaimuki.
The film will debut to the general public from Thursday through Sunday. Producer, director, crew and/or cast will introduce the film and answer any questions about its making. Interested parties should call Dwight at 735-8771 for reservations. The film is scheduled to simultaneously debut at Haleiwa Shingon Mission, 66-469 Paalaa Road (behind MacDonalds) in Haleiwa on Saturday, 23 June, at 7 p.m. The film is approximately 50 minutes including feature and studio discussion, and is rated "Family." Filmmakers are seeking invitations from other interested theaters and organizations to show the film on the other islands. Please call producer Daniel S. Janik at 808-551-7529 if you are interested in hosting or sponsoring a simultaneous debut.
"I'm proud to have been part of this film," says producer Daniel S. Janik, former USDA Extension Service Water Quality Agent for the Kaiaka-Wailua Hydrologic Unit Area (KWHUA) water quality project. "If we address the chief threats to our island environment and judiciously implement the measures needed to tackle those threats head-on, we may be able to preserve both water and land for many generations to come. But we must act now and this film's our way of making that clear." The KWHUA project, a federally-funded effort, was active from about 1991 through 1996. It included a regional assessment program (RAP) whereby high school and college students worked alongside Northshore residents to assess the current impact of land and agrochemical management on mixed fresh/salt water embayments. "Embayments are where we expected to find and indeed found the most telling impacts," says Janik. The project also included a classroom augmentation project (CAP) in which Apoha the O'opu fish regularly visited classrooms across Oahu and resulted in the now famous "River of Fish" display at Honolulu Hale - 1000 fish colored by Hawaii elementary school students with personal statements about how they planned to protect the water.
"Clean Water, Common Ground" is a "film of the times: the right film at the right time." It is distributed on Region 1 DVD by the National Film Network at
http://www.nationalfilmnetwork.com
and retails for $21.95.
