Christen Hepuakoamana`a Marquez Director/ Producer
Christen Marquez holds a BFA in Film and Video Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts her work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival’s Gen-Y Studio, The Media That Matters Festival, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Christen is currently in Production of Haku Inoa, which is her first hour-long documentary intended for television broadcast. She working in partnership with PBS Hawai`i, Independent Television Service (ITVS), The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and Pacific Islanders in Communications.
In 2010 she finished Producing her first narrative feature called Two Shadows www.twoshadowsmovie.com with Director Greg Cahill. This film is the first ever to tell the story of a young Cambodian-American woman who returns to her home country to look for her siblings who were assumed to have been killed by the Khmer Rouge. Two Shadows will be playing festivals in 2011/2012.
Christen also shoots and produces video content for online web outlets and works a communications and new media consultant for small businesses and non-profit organizations. When she is not busy with work Christen trains muay thai kickboxing and sings sappy love songs at Cosmo’s Karaoke in Los Angeles.
