American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawaii

Co-founder of bluestocking films and hula dancer Lisette Marie Flanary creates documentary films that celebrate a modern renaissance of the hula and Hawaiian culture. She is the writer, producer, and director of Lehua Films and her award-winning documentaries America Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawaii, Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula, and One Voice have broadcast nationally on public television and shown in film festivals around the world. Her film Tokyo Hula examines the explosive popularity of hula in Japan.

Flanary is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in Film and Television Production and received her M.F.A. in creative writing at the New School University.

Evann Siebens specializes in making films about dance. A former dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, and the Bonn Ballet in Germany, she has filmed dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bill T. Jones, and Lucinda Childs. She is also a graduate of New York University and co-founder of bluestocking films, inc. Evann has been the videographer for numerous documentaries on dance including State of Darkness and From the Horse’s Mouth. Her short films, POTHEAD and do not call it fixity... have screened at film festivals and on arts networks worldwide. Siebens co-directed The Breach, a dance film series for DV Republic, and was commissioned to direct a documentary on the Jose Limon Dance Company in 2000.