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Today on The Conversation, we're replaying interviews with filmmakers who focus on stories of the ocean.

Two Hawaiʻi-born actors are making names for themselves in Hollywood. Nyah Juliano and Koda Beschen recently appeared in the Fox series "Rescue: HI-Surf" and in independent films.

HPR's Maddie Bender reports on how federal funding cuts are impacting the University of Hawaiʻi; Kitty Simonds, executive director of the Western Pacific Fishery Council, responds to environmentalists' concerns about a Trump order allowing commercial fishing within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument

The Celebration of the Arts on Maui will come to a final close this weekend after over three decades of celebrating Hawaiian culture. The Conversation talked to Clifford Nae’ole, chair of the Celebration of the Arts, about what's changed since he first started the event.

As Hilo prepares for the Merrie Monarch Festival to reconvene on April 20, here's what to expect during the week-long festivities. HPR's Hannah Kaʻiulani Coburn has more.

Hawaiʻi issued an estimated $24.5 million in film tax credits in 2024. Entertainment industry professionals are supporting legislative measures to create a film authority to raise the film tax incentives cap, which is currently $50 million for all productions seeking to film in Hawaiʻi.

Mānoa Valley Theatre is staging Hawaiʻi's first-ever production of the musical "Parade." The show tells the true story of a 1913 murder in Atlanta, Georgia. But it's not all doom and gloom.

A new short film at the Maui Ocean Center showcases the first humpback whales to return to Lahaina after the 2023 wildfires. The Conversation talked to photographer and Maui resident Daniel Sullivan.

Elizabeth Ung, an MFA candidate and acting lecturer at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, reimagined the Chinese folk tale of a young woman impersonating a man to join the army to save her father, to Mulan having five distinct personalities throughout various time periods.

McKinley driver education coordinator Leilani Okuda discusses the perils of distracted driving; Author and DJ Morgan Nixon documents the history of the Jamaican reggae music label Studio One