Meet the Crew
Chris Conybeare
Producer
Chris Conybeare has won numerous awards, including an Emmy, for his documentary productions about Hawaiʻi. Through his work, he has helped create a digital moving image archive that documents Hawaii’s plantation and working class history. He helmed the international news program, Asia Now, with partners, Japan’s NHK, and PBS stations KCTS Seattle, and PBS Hawaiʻi. As an attorney, he has been at the forefront of struggles for human rights, both at home and abroad. AQ McElrath is one of his personal heroes and he sees the current documentary project as both a tribute to her and a message about compassion and courage for future generations!
Joy Chong-Stannard
Producer/Director
Joy Chong-Stannard is a Hawaiʻi based independent filmmaker with extensive experience in archival research of historic photographs, moving images and historic documents that lend a visual dynamic to her portrayal of island history. Chong-Stannard’s fascination with Hawaiʻi past led to directing and editing productions that explore the dynamic social and economic upheavals of Hawaiʻi’s history that include Betrayal, the award-winning nationally broadcast docudrama of the overthrow of Hawaiʻi’s last reigning monarch and the ongoing Biography Hawai‘i series. Her production of Ka Hana Kapa tells the inspiring story about a small group of women who sought to revive the ancient art of making kapa or Hawaiian bark cloth. She is also the Producer/Director of the live weekly public affairs program, Insights on PBS Hawaiʻi.
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
Screenwriter
Screenwriter Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl is a writer and educator. She has been the researcher, writer, and co-Producer for the popular series Biography
Hawaiʻi on PBS. She has also written numerous other Hawai‘i history documentaries, including Jack Hall: His Life and Times. Her volume of plays and three mystery novels have been published by UH Press. Ms. Kneubuhl is the recipient of the Hawaiʻi Award for Literature, our state’s highest literary honor.
Jackie Pualani Johnson
Narrator
Original Music by Jon Magnussen
Jon Magnussen is a composer and educator equally at home in the analog or digital domain, As Professor of Music at UH West Oʻahu, he engages students in a wide range of sonic expressions, helping them tell their own stories. See https://jonmagnussen.com for more information.
Music performed by Galliard String Quartet
Recording Engineers, Bob Dickerson and Lauren Mueller
Sound Mixing by Max Eberbach (Pacific Music Productions)
