01 Nonprofit · Community

AccesSurf Hawaii

AccesSurf started in 2006 with a few pickup trucks, some duct tape, and the belief that the ocean belongs to everyone. Their founders wanted to get people with disabilities back in the water — not as spectators, but as surfers. Nearly two decades later they run over 90 program days a year, serve hundreds of participants monthly, and have grown into Hawaii's only Paralympic Sports Club. They helped build the classification system for adaptive surfing's first World Championships and have sent athletes to compete internationally.

This film was made to help them raise funding. It doesn't ask for anything directly. It just shows you what they've built, and trusts that to be enough.

02 Athlete Feature · Brand

Kaiwaa — Antares OC1

Kaiwaa makes outrigger canoes rooted in the Hawaiian tradition of wa'a — the vessels that carried people across open ocean long before modern navigation existed. Their Antares OC1 was built for serious paddlers, and this film was built around one of them.

Paddling in Hawaii isn't purely athletic. It's a practice tied to place, to lineage, to a way of being on the water that doesn't translate easily into words. The intention here was to get close to that without explaining it away. She doesn't perform for the camera. She just paddles, and the frame follows.

03 Short Film

Being Seen — Mar

No client. No brief. Just an idea worth following.

This film started with a simple question: what does it actually feel like to be seen? Not noticed, not watched, but genuinely seen by another person. From that came something about self-expression as a private act made visible, about freedom found not in loudness but in the willingness to exist openly.

Mar brought that to the frame without being asked. It's a quiet film. It doesn't resolve neatly, and it wasn't meant to.

04 Documentary · Nonprofit

Project Vision Hawaii

Project Vision Hawaii has spent over a decade meeting people where they are. Their mobile units travel across Oahu, Maui, and beyond — bringing showers, meals, health screenings, and case management directly to houseless communities. They operate tiny home villages, medical respite shelters for people recovering from surgery or hospitalization, and hygiene programs that have provided over 7,000 hot showers in a single year. The through line in all of it is the same: dignity shouldn't require a permanent address.

This film doesn't tell that story from the outside. It follows one of their members through what he lived before Project Vision found him, and what shifted after. The organization exists in the background, the way good support does. He's the one in frame.

05 Editorial

Mahina Garcia

Some work exists purely as image-making. This was that.

Mahina brought a quality to the frame that resists easy description. A stillness. A presence that didn't need coaxing or direction, just space to exist in. These images sit somewhere between editorial and fine art, made for no brief other than the pleasure of making something visually honest.

Beyond the wedding.

AccesSurf Hawaii

Kaiwaa — Antares OC1

Being Seen — Mar

Project Vision Hawaii

Mahina Garcia