MUMBAI: Chuck Mitsui‘s One Kine Day, that won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2010 Hawaii International Film Festival,will have two screenings at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) on 11 and 14 March.
The film, which stars Christa B. Allen and Julia Nickson, takes us on a journey to another side of Hawaii, the side filmmakers rarely portray on screen. The film captures a day in the life of slacker-skater Ralsto (newcomer Ryan Greer) as he trudges through one of the most ‘da kine‘ days of his life. Across the islands of Hawaii, ‘da kine‘ is a pidgin phrase that can mean, well, just about anything.
In his directorial debut, Mitsui exposes a darker side of teenage life. In the course of the film, skateboarder Ralsto sees his relatively carefree world fade away into a more complicated existence when he discovers his girlfriend is pregnant.
Filmed on location on Oahu and produced by Hawaiian film company Haolewood Productions, the film also stars Janel Parrish and Jolene Blalock.
Mitsui, who was born and raised in the Bay Area, has been a pioneer in the Hawaii skateboard scene since 1995 when he opened 808 Skate, the first skate shop in Hawaii.
