Upcoming Projects
FEATURE FILMS
(Loglines upon request)
Hulihuli Moon (original competition title: Kaulana Or The Aloha Express) - FINALIST, 2013 Beverly Hills Film Festival Screenplay Competition - Spiritual Hawaii-comedy / music & food, culture, family
A hilarious, heart-warming story about pursuing life's dreams that is as true in the islands as it is anywhere else in the world. (But way more fun in the "land of aloha.")
Hui
Hawaii youth-comedy / spirituality, coming of age
Woodle - WINNER, Best Animation Script, 2013 Los Angeles Film and Script Festival
Animation feature-comedy / love & peace in the wilderness, humanitarian solutions
The Sleeping Giant
True survival-drama / one man’s outrageous journey
(Loglines upon request)
Hulihuli Moon (original competition title: Kaulana Or The Aloha Express) - FINALIST, 2013 Beverly Hills Film Festival Screenplay Competition - Spiritual Hawaii-comedy / music & food, culture, family
A hilarious, heart-warming story about pursuing life's dreams that is as true in the islands as it is anywhere else in the world. (But way more fun in the "land of aloha.")
Hui
Hawaii youth-comedy / spirituality, coming of age
Woodle - WINNER, Best Animation Script, 2013 Los Angeles Film and Script Festival
Animation feature-comedy / love & peace in the wilderness, humanitarian solutions
The Sleeping Giant
True survival-drama / one man’s outrageous journey
Completed Collaborative Projects
with Austrian Filmmaker Jo Danieli / Lunawai Films International
“QUEENBEE” (“KÖNIGIN”) – (Drama) © Jo Danieli 2012 - Feature motion picture, 75 Min., PAL, SD/HD, color, stereo, German with English subtitles
An older woman (“Helene”) considers the dying of the bees to be an indication for the approaching end of mankind, due to millennia of abuse of nature; When she takes a young disrespectful woman (“Karla”) prisoner in her apartment, the verbal fight between the mature, sensitive world-view of a “queenbee” and the ignorant arrogance of a youngster turn into a murderous struggle for the inexperienced one’s right of survival … but in the end, not all may be real what appears to be dead-serious.
“Königin” (“Queenbee”)-Trailer with engl. subtitles: http://youtu.be/EEcQyloZiIg
“ARBO” – (Social drama) © Jo Danieli 2012 - Feature motion picture (artistic), 75 Min., PAL, SD/HD, color, stereo, German with English subtitles
A tree is accidental meeting place of nine people who don’t know each other, but all have a special need to be close to that very tree. Bizarre interactions develop that lead to unintentional murder. In interviews, all people involved reveal their motivations to fight for their place around the tree and share details from their private lives, and it becomes obvious that they all are unknowingly connected in some way and that each of them has to deal with tragedies and needs that are similar to those of the others. The tree himself expresses his bitter feelings about being embattled by those “others” in the introductory section of the film.
“Arbo”-Trailer English: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261261/
“GERONIA – His own wide world” – (Drama / Zeitgeist) © Jo Danieli 2011 - Feature motion picture, 120 Min., PAL, SD/HD, color, stereo, German with English subtitles
A middle-aged Internet-addict (“Gero”) who lives his life behind closed doors in the virtual world, gets through the intervention of his desperate girlfriend involved in the trendy treasure hunting game “Geocaching”, and not only does he discover nature and the outside world anew, but he also faces his own subtle values, ideals, fears and hopes and begins to reassess society-life and personal goals. He gives up his secluded life and renews his relationships with the ones closest to him and the entire world.
"Geronia"-Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733451/
“NATIVE OF OWHYHEE” (& “KE AKA”) – (Educational, history, missionary era, Christianity, Hawaiian culture) © Jo Danieli 2009 - Feature documentary, NTSC, SD, 390 min. & 285 min., widescreen, English
In the mid 19th century, Hawaii turned from an ancient "pagan" society into one of the most literate Christian nations in the world, leaving behind eras of tribal cults and sacrifices, of legendary magical ways of living predating even the era of the settlement of Polynesia. The intersection of cultures in Hawaii begun thousands of years ago, continued with Western contact and eclipsed in the fate of several young Hawaiian sailors and a Prince who played historical key-roles in the era of greatest changes when they introduced the pioneer American Christian missionaries to the islands.
(56 speakers, 10 Hawaiian narrators; over 1000 historical images, historical film-clips, Hawaiian music)
"Native Of Owhyhee" Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458948/
“SCHANDTATEN” (“SHAMEFUL DEEDS”) – (Satire / Women’s themes, nature) © Jo Danieli 2010 - Short film, 28 Min., PAL, SD/HD, color, stereo, German & English subtitles (incl. an XS-Version)
A woman moves on all fours through breathtaking nature of an autumn forest in Austria, living out her inner animal in a playful and erotic way - until she meets up with her husband, who treats her like an old woman and has no idea who she really is.
“Shameful Deeds” Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1884412/
"KIPUKA – The story of the legendary Hawaiian paradise" – (Educational, History, Pacific culture, spirituality) © Jo Danieli 2011 - Feature documentary, NTSC, SD, 151 min., widescreen, English
Hawaii is often considered the epitome of “paradise” – this documentary deals in depth with the true historical past of the archipelago and the related cultural and spiritual concepts as well as practices that are today often featured in very distorted ways, making the Hawaiian islanders appear to be a people that could have only existed in fiction. In reality, Hawaii has always been a place of great diversity. (40 expert speakers, native Hawaiian narrators, numerous historical images, Hawaiian cultural footage and music.)
“Kipuka” Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1880249/
An older woman (“Helene”) considers the dying of the bees to be an indication for the approaching end of mankind, due to millennia of abuse of nature; When she takes a young disrespectful woman (“Karla”) prisoner in her apartment, the verbal fight between the mature, sensitive world-view of a “queenbee” and the ignorant arrogance of a youngster turn into a murderous struggle for the inexperienced one’s right of survival … but in the end, not all may be real what appears to be dead-serious.
“Königin” (“Queenbee”)-Trailer with engl. subtitles: http://youtu.be/EEcQyloZiIg
“ARBO” – (Social drama) © Jo Danieli 2012 - Feature motion picture (artistic), 75 Min., PAL, SD/HD, color, stereo, German with English subtitles
A tree is accidental meeting place of nine people who don’t know each other, but all have a special need to be close to that very tree. Bizarre interactions develop that lead to unintentional murder. In interviews, all people involved reveal their motivations to fight for their place around the tree and share details from their private lives, and it becomes obvious that they all are unknowingly connected in some way and that each of them has to deal with tragedies and needs that are similar to those of the others. The tree himself expresses his bitter feelings about being embattled by those “others” in the introductory section of the film.
“Arbo”-Trailer English: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261261/
“GERONIA – His own wide world” – (Drama / Zeitgeist) © Jo Danieli 2011 - Feature motion picture, 120 Min., PAL, SD/HD, color, stereo, German with English subtitles
A middle-aged Internet-addict (“Gero”) who lives his life behind closed doors in the virtual world, gets through the intervention of his desperate girlfriend involved in the trendy treasure hunting game “Geocaching”, and not only does he discover nature and the outside world anew, but he also faces his own subtle values, ideals, fears and hopes and begins to reassess society-life and personal goals. He gives up his secluded life and renews his relationships with the ones closest to him and the entire world.
"Geronia"-Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733451/
“NATIVE OF OWHYHEE” (& “KE AKA”) – (Educational, history, missionary era, Christianity, Hawaiian culture) © Jo Danieli 2009 - Feature documentary, NTSC, SD, 390 min. & 285 min., widescreen, English
In the mid 19th century, Hawaii turned from an ancient "pagan" society into one of the most literate Christian nations in the world, leaving behind eras of tribal cults and sacrifices, of legendary magical ways of living predating even the era of the settlement of Polynesia. The intersection of cultures in Hawaii begun thousands of years ago, continued with Western contact and eclipsed in the fate of several young Hawaiian sailors and a Prince who played historical key-roles in the era of greatest changes when they introduced the pioneer American Christian missionaries to the islands.
(56 speakers, 10 Hawaiian narrators; over 1000 historical images, historical film-clips, Hawaiian music)
"Native Of Owhyhee" Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458948/
“SCHANDTATEN” (“SHAMEFUL DEEDS”) – (Satire / Women’s themes, nature) © Jo Danieli 2010 - Short film, 28 Min., PAL, SD/HD, color, stereo, German & English subtitles (incl. an XS-Version)
A woman moves on all fours through breathtaking nature of an autumn forest in Austria, living out her inner animal in a playful and erotic way - until she meets up with her husband, who treats her like an old woman and has no idea who she really is.
“Shameful Deeds” Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1884412/
"KIPUKA – The story of the legendary Hawaiian paradise" – (Educational, History, Pacific culture, spirituality) © Jo Danieli 2011 - Feature documentary, NTSC, SD, 151 min., widescreen, English
Hawaii is often considered the epitome of “paradise” – this documentary deals in depth with the true historical past of the archipelago and the related cultural and spiritual concepts as well as practices that are today often featured in very distorted ways, making the Hawaiian islanders appear to be a people that could have only existed in fiction. In reality, Hawaii has always been a place of great diversity. (40 expert speakers, native Hawaiian narrators, numerous historical images, Hawaiian cultural footage and music.)
“Kipuka” Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1880249/