March 2011
Ty Sanga (Native Hawaiian) is a director of short films that have been enthusiastically received on the film festival circuit. In 2010 the most recent of these, Stones, won best short at the Maui Film Festival and was screened at NMAI's Pacifika Showcase in New York and Native Cinema Showcase in Santa Fe. The film was an official selection for the Indigenous Shorts Showcase at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and the first film entirely in the Hawaiian-language to be shown at Sundance. In two consecutive years, Sanga's films, Plastic Leis (2005) and Follow the Leader (2006), won the Golden Honu Award for Best Hawaiian Short at the Big Island Film Festival in Hawai'i.
Sanga has an MFA from the Doge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University in Orange, California, and is now teaching screenwriting at the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai'i. Sanga was born and raised in Honolulu, where he currently resides.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Audience
at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and
Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI
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