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VIDEO/FILM PRODUCER WRITER/EDITOR RESEARCHER MEDIA CONSULTANT CONFERENCE SPEAKER information

Stephanie J. Castillo, award-winning filmmaker

with associates in Honolulu, Los Angeles & Washington DC

Contact info

castillosj@aol.com (808) 735-0477

350 Ward Ave., Ste. 106-59, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814 USA

Stephanie's bio

A former journalist and an EMMY Award-winning independent filmmaker, Stephanie has been developing television documentaries since 1989. She holds an Executive MBA (2000) from the University of Hawaii. Her many awards include 3 CINE Golden Eagles, and a Progress Award from the Hawaii United Filipino Council and a Pamana Arts Legacy Award in recognition of her contribution to the Filipino American community through the documentary AN UNTOLD TRIUMPH. Her company 'Olena Media is based in Honolulu and has producing partners in Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. She also produces marketing, educational and promotional videos.

To view her complete biography. Click here.

Watch Stephanie's REEL on youtube.com

Update us, what are you doing these days???

Thanks for asking! Since the spring of 2007, I have been a part-time consultant with the Consuelo Foundation. I've been producing its annual reports and other communications projects, such as a revamp of their website.

Most recently, I completed a 40-minute video for a banquet luncheon in Manila on Oct. 13th that celebrated the Foundation's 20 years of giving hope in the Philippines. The Foundation is a private, operating, U.S-based non-profit corporation, endowed by the late Consuelo Zobel Alger. Her mission is to give hope to those who have lost it and those who never had it. The work of the Foundation is among the poor children, women and families in the Philippines and Hawaii.

In this coming year, I will produce another video to celebrate the Foundation's work in Hawaii, to be shown in April 2009 in Waianae, Hawaii. It's great to be working with such an inspiring organization and doing the work that I love!!! In my spare time, I keep on working on personal projects -- film projects, a book, and such.

QUICK PICKS

STRANGE LAND

GO TO website

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COCKFIGHTERS: The Interviews

Watch the short film

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AN UNTOLD TRIUMPH

order a copy

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SIMPLE COURAGE: An Historical Portrait for the Age of AIds

EMMY Winner!

order at Amazon.com

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View the STRANGE LAND interview

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CHECK THESE OUT

www.consuelo.org

See Stephanie"s redesign of the Consuelo Foundation's website for its 20th anniversary. 2008

A Manila Hello

Stephanie goes to the Philippines as a guest filmmaker. Check out her BLOG.

Catch

Stephanie's

CHRISTMAS CRUISE

BLOG

for some vicarious fun!

Stephanie took a break to write her next documentary, Strange Land: My Mother's War Bride Story. She took a "working vacation" on the 5-day Hawaiian Island cruise,

See samples of Stephanie's

MARKETING & PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS

Watch them on

A SPECIAL WEBSITE

JOURNEY WITH FATHER DAMIEN

QUESTIONS? FEEDBACK?

please email Stephanie

COMPLETED

DOCUMENTARIES

2006

STRANGE LAND

A 50-minute film about her mother Norma,

a World War II war bride from the Philippines, who married

her dad Wally in 1946. It's Stephanie's contribution to

the 100th anniversary of Filipino Immigration to the U.S.

Official Selection

Hawaii International Film Festival

World Premiere, Oct. 25, 2006

details

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2006

SANDAAN

A 90-minute documentary created for the 2006 Filipino American Centennial by Stephanie's filmmaking partner, director Sonny Izon.

Once again, she is his co-writer and in this his co-producer;.

In 2005, their award-winning An Untold Triumph aired in prime time PBS.

Sandaan is an intimate family album of Filipino experiences in America during the past one hundred years – at times exhilarating, at times bittersweet, but ultimately a determined and triumphant journey toward claiming America as home.

Premiered Oct, 20, 2006

Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Note: a new version is being produced,

for information contact SonnyIzon@aol.com

details

view excerpt on youtube.,com

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