August 2004
 Jeannette
Paulson Hereniko has spent much of her career working
with independent cinema of the Pacific, and recently produced
her first film, The Land Has Eyes, directed by Vilsoni
Hereniko. Of her experience as founder of the Hawai'i International
Film Festival, which she directed 1980-1996, she says, "I
think those were the most meaningful years of my life, working
with the people of Hawaii to empower minorities, to have their
voices and images seen as equal to Hollywood images." In
1990 Hereniko served as the first director of the Palm Springs
International Film Festival, and she now directs the Asia Pacific
Media Center of the University of Southern California. Through
the center she helped create the website www.asianfilms.org
which catalogues new releases from Asia in four languages: Chinese,
Korean, Japanese, and English, as well as reprinting articles
from the journal Cinemaya that offer critical perspectives on
the works. Hereniko serves on the international board of directors
of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) and
is president of NETPAC/USA.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Jeannette Paulson
Hereniko - courtesy of the filmmaker
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