Filmmaker’s Hawaii-inspired movie goes national

One of Yana Alliata’s first jobs in the film industry was working on the crew of director Alexander Payne’s 2011 made-in-Hawaii feature film, “The Descendants.” The experience of working on a film about Hawaii that was being filmed in Hawaii stayed in her mind long after the production wrapped, and when Alliata got the opportunity to write and direct her first full-length feature film, she returned to Hawaii to shoot it.

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