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“The Maui Film Festival is a perfect combination of a beautiful location, great people, great venues and a wonderful mix of films. As founder and director Barry Rivers says about the Maui Film Festival 'Heaven finally has a film festival.' I couldn't agree more!” — Jane Sarkin, Features Editor, Vanity Fair "Each June, the stunning island of Maui is the place where the brightest minds in film converge in paradise for an inspiring combination of relaxation and excitement at the Maui Film Festival at Wailea. Screening an impressive collection of studio and independent features that enthrall and top notch documentaries that captivate and inform audiences. There's no better place than Maui for a film festival." — Starz Festival Pass   "The Maui Film Festival Development and Sponsorship Team is unrivaled in execution and taste and was a pleasure to work with. I work with hundreds of people on hundreds of events but this was by far my most pleasant experience. I'd like to sincerely thank you for making me and my team feel welcome and filled with the aloha spirit. The brand was well represented and I hope to continue the relationship for many years to come." — Greg Sato, Event ManagerWest, FIJI Water   "The Maui Film Festival is a kick ass event. It's so sweet and so laid back and it's cultivating really great filmmakers with an environmental slant, and a meaningful take on life." — Pierce Brosnan, 2008 Maverick Award recipient   "The Maui Film Festival is terrific! It’s vibe echoes the early days of Sundance." — Dennis Quaid, Academy Award nominee and 2008 Galaxy Award recipient

GREAT BRANDS GET IT.

They understand that, in addition to presenting unique opportunities for client and executive hospitality, the Maui Film Festival Experience is a picture perfect platform to create brand awareness and loyalty among the cultural creatives, first adapters, new enthusiasts and consumers they crave.

 

SPONSORSHIP. MEET OPPORTUNITY.

The Maui Film Festival is equal parts Film Festival and Lifestyle Festival. Nearly 8,000 people from the Mainland, Maui and around the globe descend on the prestigious and luxurious resort community of Wailea each year to sample the good life the Maui Film Festival Experience offers. The ambiance of Maui serves as the festival's 'architect', and great films—and their associated creative arts—are its 'architecture'.

There are no secret passwords necessary to gain access to the event's most star-studded and luxurious experiences. Unlike many other film festivals, whose primary focus is commerce transacted between entertainment industry mavens behind velvet ropes or rarified dialogue between cinema cognoscenti, the Maui Film Festival's five-day underthe- stars 'Cirque du Cinema'—while attended by many of the most financially successful people drawn to any film festival is, nonetheless, equally accessible to all.

That said, the concept of 'joie de vivre'—living everyday life with zest, passion and joy in anticipation of what each new day may bring—is fortunately not lost on the plugged-in and passionate patrons attending each year's Maui Film Festival. Almost without exception, they are a group who seek out and crave on-going experiences of the finest things in life.

Better yet, from the viewpoint of potential sponsors, they do it primarily inWailea—the resort with the highest average daily room rate in the State of Hawaii.The convergence of Maui's semi-tropical sun and surf; leading-edge health, wellness, massage and spa options; flavorful Pacific Rim cuisine; and, last but not least, indigenous Hawaiian culture and ever-present aloha are the key ingredients which work the Maui Film Festival's magic on each and every attendee who collectively passed through the Maui Film Festival's turnstiles 20,000+ times in June, 2008.

For all these reasons, the Maui Film Festival atWailea presents a unique opportunity for festival sponsors to reach out to a dream demographic—connoisseurs of great filmmaking in particular, world class entertainment in general, and luxury and lifestyle products and services, best of all. They are people who are not only having one of the timesof- their-lives. They are also people feeling uniquely refreshed and rejuvenated. All of which makes them people who are ripe, ready and motivated to hear each sponsor's message clearly and uncluttered by the confusion of daily life in the real, rather than 'un-reel', world of the Maui Film Festival atWailea.

 

SPONSORSHIP OVERVIEW

Since June 2000, the Maui Film Festival has produced an annual five-day celebration of compassionate cinematic vision and storytelling.Taking place primarily at the Wailea Resort on Maui's picture perfect south shore, the Festival is a showcase for the best major studio, mini-major and independent distributors' releases of each summer. Many screenings unspool at under-the-stars venues considered by industry insiders and the international entertainment press to be either "the" or "among the" preeminent open air venues on Earth.

World-class culinary arts events, filmmakers panels, A-List tributes and private parties also contribute to making each year's Maui Film Festival at Wailea Hawaii's premiere film festival at Maui's premier resort a must-see for the nearly four thousand five hundred affluent lovers of great filmmaking and graceful living who travel to Maui each year for the event, where more than 58 features and nearly 36 shorts were screened in 2008. These mainland attendees, drawn together equally by their love of film as they are by Maui's 'hang loose' ambiance, enjoyed their Maui Film Festival experience alongside thousands of Maui and Hawaii residents.

In addition to the Maui Film Festival's annual event in Wailea, the Festival presents an on-going weekly CandleLight Café & Cinema film series throughout the year and FirstLight: Academy Screenings on Maui each Holiday Season, at which virtually all of the year's most award-worthy releases are presented either in advance of their national release dates or contemporaneously with screenings in New York or Los Angeles only.

 

A-LIST 'LUMINARIES'

Since the inaugural Maui Film Festival atWailea, the Festival has chosen an ‘ohana’ (family) of honorees that it prefers to call luminaries, rather than merely celebrities. As the Festival defines it, a luminary is a film artist whose overall body of work sheds as much light as heat and whose talent and work ethic place them in a
category that transcends mere celebrity. A luminary is the real deal.

The list includes: Joan Allen (Galaxy Award), Angela Bassett (Pathfinder Award), Jessica Biel (Shining Star Award), Adrien Brody (Friend of the Festival), Pierce Brosnan (Maverick Award), Tim Burton (Silversword Award), Patricia Clarkson (Pathfinder Award), Claire Danes (Nova Award), Geena Davis (Stella Award), Clint Eastwood (Silversword Award), Jake Gyllenhaal (Shining Star Award), Laird Hamilton & Dave Kalama (Beacon Award), Woody Harrelson (Navigator Award), Ted Hope (Trailblazer Award), Anthony Hopkins (Silversword Award), Felicity Huffman (Nova Award), Helen Hunt (Stella Award), William Hurt (Navigator Award), Greg Kinnear (Navigator Award), William H. Macy (Rainmaker Award), Virginia Madsen (Navigator Award), Bill Maher (Maverick Award), Mike Myers (Silversword Award), Dennis Quaid (Galaxy Award), John C. Reilly (Navigator Award), Rob Reiner (Lights! Camera! Passion! Award), and Owen & Luke Wilson (Shooting Star Award).

 

MEDIA COVERAGE

USA Today, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, People, Newsweek, In Style, Conde Nast Traveler, Extra, Men's Journal, Outside Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Hollywood Life, Time Out New York, National Public Radio, KCRW, San Francisco Magazine, LA Magazine, Washington Post, Associated Press, New York Post, The Guardian (London), NY Daily News, LA Daily News, Toronto Star, LAWeekly, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Maui News, Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Weekly, CNN, Bravo, CNN Headline News, Entertainment Tonight, E! Entertainment, Access Hollywood, Starz Festival Pass, Associated PressTV, CBS Early Morning, VH-1 Classics, Movie Television, Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International, indieWIRE, wireIMAGE, Getty Images, Filmmaker Magazine, Film FestivalsToday,Hawaii Film & Video Magazine, Hawaiian Style Magazine, Islands Magazine, Google.com, Yahoo.com, AOL.com, CNN.com, indieWIRE.com, MSNBC.com, Concierge.com, aint-it-cool-news.com, MovieCityNews.com and FilmFestivals.com.

 

2008 SPONSORS

View 2008 sponsors for Maui Film Festival at Wailea

 

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The Maui Film Festival takes great pride in going the extra mile to provide Festival Sponsors one-of-a-kind opportunities to personalize and "own" a key element of the Festival while simultaneously, in the uniquely elegant branding environment that is Maui, connecting with industry professionals, filmmakers and film lovers from around the world. The Maui Film Festival is also willing to consider multi-year sponsorship agreements. These agreements provide sponsors the assurance of knowing that they can rely upon each year's investment with the Maui Film Festival as a building block of their overall strategy to build brand awareness and increase profitability.

VENUES Celestial Cinema Maui SkyDome SandDanceTheater Starlight Cinema Seaside Cinema Lounge Solar Cinema StarDome Cinema

SPECIAL EVENTS Opening Night Reception Starry Night MoonDance Taste of Chocolate Taste of Wailea Private VIP Parties Father's Day Concert VIP Filmmakers' Soireé Launch Party Luau (in L.A.)

PROGRAMS Audience Awards Festival Tributes Filmmakers Panels Shorts Program Filmmaker Awards & Prizes The StarShow Yoga • Tai Chi • Surf Lessons VIP Shuttles &Test Drives

BENEFITS OF SPONSORSHIP MAY INCLUDE

Category exclusivity Display opportunities Banner and signage display National and local media space and impressions Passes to films, programs and events Promotional merchandise distribution Logo visibility in festival trailer

Logo visibility in print collateral Invitations to private parties On-line promotions and festival collateral Recognition announcements at screenings Off-site promotional opportunities Sampling Opportunities Point-of-Purchase Retail Tie-Ins

"The Maui Film Festival Serves Up Feasts, Stars and Enlightenment. It’s where the seaside rules and studio execs retreat and where there’s enough A-list presence on and off screen to make it an island celebration deserving of its industry recognition." — Harriette Yahr, IndieWire

"Hollywood under the stars – in pure paradise. That’s the cosmic chemistry of this under-the-stars festival. You relax all day. You get that thrilling “Is this the upstart Oscar contender of the year?” buzz at night. The features don’t start until you’ve observed a hula ritual and heard an astronomer’s tour of the stars. Yet this isn’t a New Agey fringe festival: it’s grown from 1,500 to more than 20,000 attendees in less than a decade and drawn blockbuster premieres." — Sarah Mueler Bossenbroek, San Francisco Magazine

 

Maui Film Festival Development Office
P.O. Box 790669 (16 Baldwin Avenue)
Paia, HI 96779
Phone: 808.579.9996 Fax: 808.579.9552