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Tokyo Hula

Tokyo Hula explores the personal stories of Japanese teachers and students of the hula to reveal the challenges and ways in which the hula dance has been transplanted and translated into a Japanese context and setting.

Funding Type

Development

Lisette Marie Flanary

Director/Producer

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.