The documentary of a former Hawaiʻi news anchor’s search for her family’s missing matriarch will premier next week during the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival.
Film cameras followed former KITV4 news anchor Diane Ako as she retraced the final footsteps of Helen Maliu, her great-grandmother, to Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi, a leprosy settlement established in 1866. Maliu disappeared from Honolulu in 1900.
“Pili Hou: Finding Helen” (pilihoufilm.com) follows Ako’s family as they unlock the secrets of her great-grandmother’s disappearance. On the Big Island, it will be screened on Nov. 8 at 5:30 p.m. at Kahilu Theater…