Genie Joseph is an award winning film and television director. Her feature films have been on Variety's Top 50 list and have won international awards.
As a staff producer/director at KITV-4, (The ABC Affiliate in Honolulu) she directed hundreds of TV commercials. Genie is the author of eleven screenplays - four of which have been sold and produced by independent companies.
SPOOKIES, a feature film distributed by SONY, is a gothic-horror spoof
which she co-wrote and directed. Spookies won three awards in the International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films in Paris.
Mind Benders, Starring Roy Thinnes, which Genie co-wrote and directed was shot in Montreal. It is a teen Comedy/Sci-Fi about a behavior modification experiment where they pipe subliminal sounds into a classroom to make free-thinking kids conform.
She has published short stories and writes a "Quality of Life" column for The Honolulu News. She and Matthew Gray, the Restaurant Reviewer for the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, were co-hosts of a talk radio show called LOVE LIFE for six years. Their show continues to broadcast on their Web Site, which attracts over 15 million hits per month.
With a masters degree. in communications, she teaches Television Production and Screenwriting at Oleo, Hawaii's Community Television. There she works with a diverse cross-section of Oahu's community, helping them focus their message and use the media to further their personal or organizational mission. She also teaches screenwriting and Low-Budget Filmmaking at the University of Hawaii's Pacific New Media.
Last year The Ohina Film Showcase showed her short film called Choices, which deals with the subject of domestic violence. Shown at The Honolulu Academy of Arts, "Choices" also won "Best Director" at the New York International Independent Film Festival and was shown in one of the alternate festivals at Sundance last year.
This year, she was again selected for the Ohina Film Showcase, this time with a 16-minute documentary she directed called We Are the PeaceMakers.
This project is an overview of the Peer Mediation Conflict Resolution Program at Leilehua High School.
Chief Justice, the Honorable Ronald Moon, has great praise for this video which was recently presented at a special showing at the Hawaii Supreme Court. It is being used to help the BOE make critical decisions about what programs to support in the future. Genie Joseph is also a senior mediator and group facilitator at The Mediation Center of the Pacific, where she volunteers.
While in New York, Genie had her own production company producing and directing corporate communication and training films. Working with such clients as The New York City Office of Business Development, Chase Manhattan Bank, Jaguar Cars, Mobil Oil, Time, Inc and many other companies. She specializes in blending information and entertainment, allowing the maximum impact for all audiences.
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