March 2005
 Producer
Lurline Wailana McGregor (Native Hawaiian)
directs short videos and is a former director of Pacific
Islanders in Communication (PIC), the public television consortium
responsible for programming by indigenous Pacific Islanders. She
is also the former executive director of 'Olelo Community Television,
where she founded NATV, a public access television channel devoted
to indigenous programming. Under her leadership, 'Olelo Community
Television established video production training programs at rural
O'ahu schools. McGregor currently works on legislative issues
for the State Senate of Hawaii, and formerly worked on Native
Hawaiian issues for Hui Na'auao, a coalition advocating Native
Hawaiian sovereignty, and for the Senate Select Committee on Indian
Affairs, under Senator Daniel Inouye, committee chair. McGregor
received an MA in political science and public affairs at George
Washington University in Washington, D.C. She was born to a Hawaiian,
Chinese, Scottish father and a German mother, and grew up in Honolulu,
Hawai'i, in a community that reflected her own multi-cultural
background.
"My primary interest in filmmaking and video production
has always been
in using the medium as a tool to educate our own communities and
to
inform others about us from a first person viewpoint. To engage
an
audience, though, a production must be artistic and entertaining.
I
like making documentaries because not only is truth often more
compelling (and unbelievable!) than fiction, but there are many
stories in our communities about our people that deserve to be
told.
The challenge is to tell the story in a way that is fresh and
that will
allow the truth to reveal itself. My goal is always to leave the
viewer with a new understanding and new insights of Native people
as
human beings."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Lurline Wailana McGregor - courtesy of the filmmaker
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