Our goal is give animators an opportunity to share their cultural work with other artists and new audiences. CAFF, the Cultural Animation Film Festival is designed to showcase unique animated films based on the cultures of who we are. Our hopes is that these films will shed a better light on who we are as a people. We also hope that CAFF will inspire animators both new and seasoned from around the
world to create films and share their stories. The origins and inspiration of CAFF are simple and inspired by both children and audience reactions to cultural based animated shorts that were created in Hawai’i. These reactions made us think what if there was a festival devoted strictly to cultural animation? This simple question led us to discussions with the Doris Duke Theatre at The Honolulu Museum of Art who in turn, gave us a big thumbs up to proceed. We are grateful that with each passing year we have had incredible help from both organizing and community partners such as Aloha medical Mission, the Cultural Animators Network, The Center for Pacific island Studies, The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Pacific Islanders in Communication, the CG Bros, Brian Chee and the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Miyu Distribution, Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking, DreamFloat Hawai'i, University of Hawai’i Academy for Creative Media, Lady Pasifika, Kapi'olani Community College New Media Arts Program, Access To Independence and Raatior Ventures. We humbly thank each of them, for without their help and assistance we would not be looking forward to next years fest. events and screenings are held in association with The Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theatre and Dr. Mary Therese Perez Hattori.
