About this submission
Kapapala Ranch is a 34,000+ acre ranch next to an active volcano run by a Paniolo woman, Lani Cran Petrie. This intimate portrait reveals another side of Hawaiian culture -- that of it's Paniolo (Hawaiian Cowboys).
Directed, Produced, & Cinematography by Alison Week and Liz Barney
Cultural advising for this project provided by Danny and Anna Akaka
Production completed November 2020
Third Voice Productions, LLC
thirdvoiceproductions@gmail.com
Alison Week
Creator
Austin, TX, USA
Alison Week is originally from Hawai’i. Her passion for documentary filmmaking has grown over the past 6-years as she's worked managing documentary teams around the world and shooting for clients like BBC, NBC/Universal, Business Insider, and Verizon. She has been selected to speak on documentary filmmaking at SXSW and the Allied Media Conference, pitch work at Good Pitch Local – Dallas, and participate in the PBS Young Producers Conference and the American Conservation Film Festival’s Producing Camp.
She has guided teams from development through post-production, launched successful crowdfunding campaigns, and coordinated impact screening tours, including one across 17 cities in the Four Corners region of the US for the premiere of Yellow Fever: Uncovering the Navajo Uranium Legacy on PBS/America Reframed (Dir. Sophie Rousmaniere).
Recently, she was selected by the state of Hawai’i as a fellow in the Creative Hawai’i Lab - Producing Immersive 2019 with her first narrative (fiction) feature. She is currently working with co-producer, and Executive Director of the Made in Hawai’i Film Festival, Zoe Eisenberg on the pre-production of their films.