Healing Lahaina: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Join the Healing Lahaina documentary film team for a screening and panel co-presented by the Hawai’i International Film Festival and Capitol Modern.

Director Laurel Tamayo’s family lost their multigenerational home in the 2023 Lahaina wildfire, the deadliest wildfire in modern US history. Through personal recounts, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of survival, climate change and colonization, and community resilience.

This event will include a showing of the documentary, Healing Lahaina, as well as a panel on climate change, community resilience, and storytelling featuring Laurel Tamayo (Director), Austin Alimbuyuguen (Director of Photography), Taimane (Composer), moderated by Melina Coumas.