Connie is the founder and CEO of Hula Girl Productions, the production company currently working on The Glades Project. Connie produced the feature documentary, Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering A Sense Of Place, which premiered at the Washington D.C. Asian Pacific American Film Festival in October of 2001 at the Smithsonian Institute. It was a sellout favorite at both The
Hawaii International Film Festival in 2001 and The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in 2002. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is
currently utilizing Ke Kulana He Mahu as part of their Civil Rights Program curriculum training. The film was also a recipient of the 2002 Frameline/Horizons Film and Video
Completion Fund Award; Astraea Lesbian Action Fund for Justice. In June of 2003 Ke Kulana He Mahu was broadcast by WNET in New York (PBS).

She was Executive Producer for the award winning short, Constructions, which was juried the First Place award winner and Audience Award winner in the short documentary category at the First Annual QSFA 2000 (sponsored by Planet Out/IFilm). Constructions also received recognition among the Best Films of 2001 (short film category) at the Sapphos Movie Awards (Girlfriends Magazine) and the Adam Baran Award for best short film 2001. It received distribution by the National Asian American Telecommunications Association-NAATA (A PBS National Minority Consortia).

Connie’s most recent works include the following: work as the Director/Producer/Writer of Ho’oponopono, a short film, completed entirely in Hawai`i; work as a Producer/Assistant Director of Ka ‘Upena Kiloi, a short film funded by Pacific Islanders in Communications-PIC. Both films are currently in post-production. Other work
experience includes work as a 2nd2nd Assistant Director for The Fishbowl Project, directed by the late, Kayo Hatta, scheduled to air on National Public Broadcast & PBS
Hawai`i during the spring of 2006. Other recent works include pre-production manager for the U.K. feature film titled, The Killing of John Lennon in 2005.

Connie currently serves as a Director of Film rogramming for the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival since 2003. (www.HRFF.org). She is also a current Board Member and former Executive Director for the Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation, a 501c3 organization since 1996.Connie has served as Hospitality Coordinator and
Outreach/Program Distribution Coordinator for the Hawaii International Film Festival since 2003. (www.HIFF.org).