VOICES OF TRUTH ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I'S FUTURE & FREE HAWAI`I TV WIN MAJOR AWARD
East Bay Media Center Bestows Renown Digital Halo Media Activist Award
Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future, a weekly award-winning television show broadcast throughout Hawai`i, the US, internationally and on the web, and internet-broadcast Free Hawai`i TV have been awarded the prestigious Digital Halo Media Activist Award by the East Bay Media Center.
The award is given annually to filmmakers who have been judged to have successfully spread ideas online and galvanized community action.
“This award recognizes the Koani Foundation’s successful use of digital media for social change within Hawai`i,” states Paul Kealoha Blake of East Bay Media Center.
"Both Voices Of Truth and Free Hawai`i TV and all the work the Koani Foundation does throughout Hawai`i and the world exemplifies excellence in media and social justice.”
The East Bay Media Center, which produces the Berkeley Video and Film Festival annually, recognizes activists internationally working for social change through digital media.
“We’re thrilled to receive this important award and recognition,” remarked `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell, a director of the Koani Foundation. “We remain strongly committed to the use of the Internet as a means to educate the world about a Free Hawai`i.”
Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future, a winner of the 2009 WAVE Video Awards, has already been announced as a 2010 finalist. The WAVE Video Awards is a regional video competition in nine western US states.
Voices Of Truth airs on local access television throughout Hawai`i and is broadcast on `Olelo channel 53 on O`ahu. It also airs in 37 cities in the US as well as Cape Town, South Africa. The show can be viewed online at VoicesOfTruthTV.com
Free Hawai`i TV airs on FreeHawaiiTV.com
