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WHITE HAWAIIAN Creator
ACTOR – PRODUCER – MUSICIAN
Brian Kohne
Hawaii’s Brian Kohne is an award-winning music producer (Barefoot Natives, Willie K) and motion picture Writer/Director/Producer (Get A Job, Kuleana – Maui). He and Eric Gilliom created the White Hawaiian in 2018.
An Art and Radio/TV/Film graduate of San Jose State, he returned to Maui in ’05 from Silicon Valley having excelled as a national director of sales and marketing, in corporate video production, sports broadcasting, and as senior user interface architect for an interactive television corporation.
Kohne is principal of Hawaii Cinema Inc., and Director of the Academy for Creative Media at UH Maui College.
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Brian Kohne
Director Academy for Creative Media at UH Maui College
As Director of Academy for Creative Media at UH Maui college, Brian works with a dedicated team of talented working professionals who strive to provide high-level instruction and mentorship. The Academy meets island creatives where they are upon arrival, and remain beside them on their artist’s journey through graduation and beyond.