directors Noah Keone Viernes and Sancia Miala Shiba Nash                               producers Noah Keone Viernes and Lance D. Collins                                                               co-producers Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick                                                                                              executive producers Bianca Isaki, Linda Nye, Claire Daoang                                     director of photography AJ Feducia                                                                                        editor kekahi wahi                                                                                                                           sound designer Noah Keone Viernes                                                                                opening animation director Shinya Akutagawa                                                                  digital cartographer Sean Connelly                                                                                    Hawaiian Language Supervisor and Field Producer Puaokamele Dizon                                                                               camera operators Sancia Miala Shiba Nash, Noah Keone Viernes, Puaokamele Dizon, Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Benjamin Viernes                                                                                  sound recordists Noah Keone Viernes, Jon Yim, Joel Katz                                            drone operator Matty Schweitzer                                                                                        additional voiceover Brendan George Ko, Mikiʻala Puaʻa Freitas                                                                                                         archival footage The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation: Eddie and Myrna Kamae, Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina: Joan Lander and Puhipau

Ea (2025) 70 mins. 16:9, color, sound

Ea [Sovereign] is a feature length documentary about Keʻeaumoku Kapu, a Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) community leader, activist, and caretaker of Nā ʻAikāne o Maui Cultural Center in Lahaina, Maui. Through resonant landscapes and multimedia expressions of indigenous presence, the film focuses on Kapu’s nearly 20-year battle, in and out of the U.S. court system, to reclaim ancestral kuleana land in Kauaʻula valley on the northwest coast of the island of Maui. Ea is a testament to the resilience of one family, whose efforts serve as a source of guidance for their community as well as future generations pursuing land and water rights across the Hawaiian archipelago. 

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