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Serving through media projects 

all her professional life.

 

Stephanie directing her first documentary. Moloka'i, Hawaii.  1991

 

         'Olena Media serves as Stephanie Castillo's company for producing films and videos, among other media services.  Begun in 1989, 'Olena Media has generated several short-form and long-form TV documentary projects, including SIMPLE COURAGE, the 1992 Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary about Hawaii’s leprosy epidemic.  It was co-produced with Hawaii Public Television.      

          

The company's stable of professional, independent talent and technicians has proven itself capable of producing high-quality products with national broadcast-standards. 

          

As a producer, director, editor and writer, Stephanie and her teams bring the highest professional and journalistic standards 

to all their work.   Integrity is a given.  

         

Stephanie generates her own publicity and marketing campaigns.  She designs her own websites. 

         

She is also a free-lance writer and editor working on several book projects of her own creation.  

Stephanie's Biography



Stephanie J, Castillo

Stephanie was born in Honolulu.   She and her seven sisters grew up in an Army family and lived six years in Japan, four years in the Philippines and the other years in Hawaii and the U.S. mainland. 



Noel "Sonny"  M. Izon

Stephanie works in close partnership Sonny and his Washington D.C.-based Interactive Communication Technology company.

            

They have been  long-time friends since high school and first collaborated in 1990 when Sonny  began assisting Stephanie  with the planning, scripting and editing of SIMPLE COURAGE, her 1993 EMMY Award-winning PBS  documentary. 


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