✶ 𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓼𝓪𝓴𝓲 ✶
designer & film producer
Meleokauaapuakea Hamasaki is a designer & film producer from Kāne'ohe based in Honolulu and Los Angeles.
Her mission is exquisite equilibrium - the everyday remembering to cultivate and nourish our relationship to the natural world, the spiritual world, our communities, our families, and ourselves. ꩜
✶ 𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓼𝓪𝓴𝓲 ✶
designer & film producer
Meleokauaapuakea Hamasaki is a designer & film producer from Kāne'ohe based in Honolulu and Los Angeles.
Her mission is exquisite equilibrium - the everyday remembering to cultivate and nourish our relationship to the natural world, the spiritual world, our communities, our families, and ourselves. ꩜
✶ Film Producing ✶
✶ Film Producing ✶
ALU KA PULE, dir. Ang Axelrode. Documentary Feature. Production.
I AM BECAUSE OF YOU, dir. Daniel Croix. Narrative Short. Post Production.
DON'T TELL MAMA, dir. Chloe Leigh King. Narrative Short. 2025.
Festivals:
Brooklyn Film Festival
New Hampshire Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Woodstock Film Festival
MEMORY AS MISSIONARY POSITION, dir. Brigitte Leilani Axelrode. Experimental Short. 2025.
Festivals:
Dance Camera West
Hawaiʻi International Film Festival
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
HULI, dir. Daniel Croix. Narrative Short. 2024.
Festivals:
Kino Babylon Cinema, Berlin
Honolulu Museum of Art ‘Huli of Consciousness’
Honolulu African American Film Festival
Hawaiʻi International Film Festival
Diversity at Cannes Film Festival
Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival
Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival
Make Believe: Seattle Film Festival
Oakland International Film Festival
Buffalo International Film Festival
Pacific Island Film Festival
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival
Into The _ Hawaiʻi Festival Toyama Japan
Syracuse International Film Festival
Micheaux Film Festival
ALU KA PULE, dir. Ang Axelrode. Documentary Feature. Production.
I AM BECAUSE OF YOU, dir. Daniel Croix. Narrative Short. Post Production.
DON'T TELL MAMA, dir. Chloe Leigh King. Narrative Short. 2025.
MEMORY AS MISSIONARY POSITION, dir. Brigitte Leilani Axelrode. Experimental Short. 2025.
HULI, dir. Daniel Croix. Narrative Short. 2024.
✶ Product Design ✶
✶ Product Design ✶
Currently designing intelligent tooling at Yahoo. 2025-present.
Piʻikū design mentor for Gage Minamoto & Michelle Tran at Umi. Jul-Sep 2024.
Piʻikū design mentor for Lauren Hirai and Nic Kim at Farmlink Hawaiʻi. Sep-Nov 2023.
Established and scaled design systems for Coinbase. Shoutout to the real ones - you know who are you! 2021-2025.
Started my career in technology + design systems at Workday. Risktakers!!! 2017-2021.
My very first internship as a UX designer at Siegel+Gale. Thank you Leesa and Courtney for seeing & believing in me ♡. Summer 2016.
Currently designing intelligent tooling at Yahoo. 2025-present.
Piʻikū design mentor for Gage Minamoto & Michelle Tran at Umi. Jul-Sep 2024.
Piʻikū design mentor for Lauren Hirai and Nic Kim at Farmlink Hawaiʻi. Sep-Nov 2023.
Established and scaled design systems for Coinbase. Shoutout to the real ones - you know who are you! 2021-2025.
Started my career in technology + design systems at Workday. Risktakers!!! 2017-2021.
My very first internship as a UX designer at Siegel+Gale. Thank you Leesa and Courtney for seeing & believing in me ♡. Summer 2016.
✶ Web Design & Digital Communication ✶
✶ Web Design & Digital Communication ✶
⋆ The Renkon Project, Aug 2025
⋆ Puʻuhonua Society, 2024-present.
⋆ Ringshout Productions, 2024-present.
⋆ TOQA, 2020-2023.
⋆ The Renkon Project, Aug 2025
⋆ Puʻuhonua Society, 2024-present.
⋆ Ringshout Productions, 2024-present.
⋆ TOQA, 2020-2023.
✶ Event Producing ✶
✶ Event Producing ✶
Produced The Renkon Project at the Waikīkī War Memorial Natatorium. Site-specific performance installation on August 6, 2025.
Produced TUTUVI TUTUVI TUTUVI at a Private Residence. Fashion Show on August 10, 2024.
Produced Huli of Consciousness at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Community Film Screening on January 13, 2024.
Produced The Renkon Project at the Waikīkī War Memorial Natatorium. Site-specific performance installation on August 6, 2025.
Produced TUTUVI TUTUVI TUTUVI at a Private Residence. Fashion Show on August 10, 2024.
Produced Huli of Consciousness at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Community Film Screening on January 13, 2024.
Videos by Vincent Bercasio
✶ Education ✶
✶ Education ✶
HIFILM Producers Lab
Hawaiʻi International Film Festival
May 2026
Ka Maka ʻĪnana Cohort IV
Purple Mai'a
Mar-May 2023
DePaul University
Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Bachelors in User Experience Design & Graphic Design
c/o 2017 & 2018
ʻIolani School
High School Diploma
c/o 2013
Halau Mohala 'Ilima
Lifelong
HIFILM Producers Lab
Hawaiʻi International Film Festival
May 2026
Ka Maka ʻĪnana Cohort IV
Purple Mai'a
Mar-May 2023
DePaul University
Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Bachelors in User Experience Design & Graphic Design
c/o 2017 & 2018
ʻIolani School
High School Diploma
c/o 2013
Halau Mohala 'Ilima
Lifelong
