Conrad Lihilihi is a Kanaka Maoli filmmaker, nocturnal ukulele player, and first team left over eater. He attended the University of Washington where he created his own major, Ethnic Identities in Film and after a quick corporate detour at Microsoft, Conrad left rainy Seattle and in the summer of 2008 moved to smoggy Los Angeles where he began work as a Production Assistant for NBC’s The Office.
Conrad then went on to work in both Production and Post Production on film and TV projects, scripted and non scripted, for various studios and production companies in Los Angeles. He was a video editor for Telepictures’ Crime Watch Daily, which won a daytime Emmy for Outstanding Multiple Camera Editing and he spent five summers teaching filmmaking, camera tech, and video editing to high school students at a creative and performing arts summer camp at Occidental College. He’s currently a Production Coordinator at Dreamworks Animation.
As a writer/director, Conrad’s work spans commercials, music videos, documentary, and narrative film. Conra'd’s sci-fi thriller short, The Device (2013) was a semi-finalist at NBCUniversal’s Short Cuts Film Festival and was picked up for broadcast on Robert Rodriguez’ El Rey Network, along with his horror short, Happy Birthday Claire (2016), which also screened at historic Hawai’i Theater. His recent Smithsonian docuseries, Language of a Nation (2020) , details the rise and fall of the Hawaiian Kingdom as told through the newly rediscovered and translated Hawaiian language newspapers. The docuseries is currently being used in school curriculum at the high school and university levels in Hawai'i and is being recut into a feature film. His comedy short, The Mainland (2020), is making its festival run and brings light to the struggles of navigating the trendy façade of diversity in Hollywood. His current film The Break (2022) deals with the issues of domestic violence plaguing the Hawaiian community. Conrad also does sketch comedy under his Tuntadun Films youtube channel. He loves to create in all genres and aims to tell real stories of Hawai'i and her people to the world.
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