{"id":776062,"date":"2026-05-06T00:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776062\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:18:18","slug":"lahaina-rising-documentary-to-screen-at-national-county-officials-conferences-maui-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776062\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lahaina Rising\u2019 documentary to screen at national county officials conferences : Maui Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\"\"The award-winning documentary Lahaina Rising, directed by Matty Schweitzer, will screened to national county officials this week in West Maui. The film takes audiences inside the Aug. 8, 2023, wildfire, capturing the devastation alongside the lived experiences, history and cultural identity of the Lahaina community. File photo<\/p>\n

A documentary about the 2023 Lahaina wildfire will be screened this week at two national conferences for county officials on Maui.<\/p>\n

\u201cLahaina Rising\u201d is scheduled for screenings May 5\u20137 at the National Association of Counties Western Interstate Region Conference and May 8 at the 40th Annual National Organization of Black County Officials Economic Development Conference in K\u0101\u02bbanapali.<\/p>\n

The film focuses on Lahaina residents, Native Hawaiian leaders and cultural stewards in the aftermath of the August 2023 fire, which killed 102 people and destroyed most of the historic town. It addresses disaster preparedness, land and water rights, ecological stewardship and community recovery.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBringing Lahaina Rising to NACo members is an invitation for counties nationwide to listen, learn and take action alongside communities redefining what true recovery looks like,\u201d said Blake Ramelb, producer of the film. \u201cAt the same time, these first-look screenings in Lahaina are rooted in honoring the community first\u2014creating space for dialogue and ensuring continued stewardship of this story by those most directly impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt its heart, this film is about the people of Lahaina\u2014about their strength, their \u02bbike, and their unwavering commitment to protecting what matters most,\u201d said Zeke Lee, legislative director, Public Lands and Western Interstate Region, National Association of Counties. \u201cOur hope is that county officials who experience the film will carry these lessons back to their own communities\u2014informing more thoughtful, community-centered approaches to disaster preparedness, land and water stewardship, and long-term resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NACo Western Interstate Region Conference brings together county officials from 17 states to engage with federal, state and regional policymakers on issues facing Western communities.<\/p>\n

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The screenings follow an appearance at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York and a premiere at the Hawai\u02bbi International Film Festival, where the film received the Made in Hawaii Award.<\/p>\n

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Private community screenings in Lahaina are also planned ahead of a broader national rollout. An educational licensing campaign \u2014 including discussion guides and a Traditional Ecological Knowledge toolkit \u2014 is expected to launch in fall 2026.<\/p>\n

More information is available at lahainarising.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The award-winning documentary Lahaina Rising, directed by Matty Schweitzer, will screened to national county officials this week in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[318012,171,318013,318014,53,318015,318016,318017,67,132,68,318018],"class_list":{"0":"post-776062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-blake-ramelb","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lahaina-rising","11":"tag-lahaina-wildfire","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-national-association-of-counties-western-interstate-region-conference","14":"tag-national-organization-of-black-county-officials-economic-development-conference","15":"tag-united-nations-permanent-forum-on-indigenous-issues","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-zeke-lee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}