The Pacific Media & Learning Trust™ is a Hawai‘i Island-based non-profit corporation focused on media-making for television and the web
that illuminates Hawai‘i's history, culture, Ka ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i (the Hawaiian Language), and "real life examples" of sustainable living.
We do this by creating original work for broadcast television and the web, and by empowering Hawai‘i's historically under-represented populations in the
multimedia marketplace by providing hands-on training in television production and web technology for youth and adults.
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) recently reported that "...by the time the average American teen reaches 18 years of age,
he will have read 9 books, and watched 50,000 hours of television." Given this data, it is clear that media makers hold a major role in shaping how we
view ourselves, our community, and our outlook of life. It is critical that our young see people on television that look and sound like them,
protraying life-affirming, positively reinforced messages in sync with their culture, family dynamic, and way of life. The historic lack of these
attributes result in a disconnected sense of "self," and disconnection from one's own culture and lifestyle.
It is our endeavor to create content for television and the web that celebrates our island way of life, and to train interested persons from within
our community to become media creators, positively impacting contemporary life in Hawai‘i.
We are proud to be the promotional and sponsorship director for the Hawai‘i Island Chamber of Commerce's
E Mālama ‘Āina Festival, Hawai‘i's very first 2-Day Consumer Event focused on Traditional Methods of Hawaiian Sustainability, Alternative Energy,
Agriculture, Transportation and Green Construction & Building. To be held on Nov. 7 & 8, 2008 at Mo‘oheau Park, plans
for the event call for a series of sustainability "villages" manned by experts in a number of areas critical to life as we know it.
A section of a sample "green home" will be erected onsite, showing use of the best contemporary green building practices, including solar energy
and renewable building materials. A miniature ahupua‘a is planned to on display, depicting land stewartship practices found in traditional
Native Hawaiian living. Additionally, event planners will work with area schools to offer classroom field-trips to the E Mālama ‘Āina Festival
where children will be able to engage in interactive sustainability practices first-hand.
All of this, plus continuous award-winning Hawaiian entertainment live on stage, a variety of food vendors, and a special edition
Hilo Farmers Market.
In support of the E Mālama ‘Āina Festival, we are pleased to announce a 6-episode series of segments on Kama'āina Backroads™ profiling
Hawai'i Island's Innovators of Sustainability, folks working on the development and proliferation of smart ideas for the people of Hawai‘i
as we face the uncertainty of traditional fossil fuel-based products.
Mahalo for your visit to our website. While it is under construction, we welcome you to make contact
with us via email at info@pacificmediatrust.org
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Pacific Media Trust™,
A Hawai‘i Non-Profit Corporation
Post Office Box 6285
Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720