Ko'olau Loa Partners,Inc.
LOCAL JOBS AND LOCAL HOMES FOR LOCAL PEOPLE
One of the most important elements within the Ko'olau Loa Revitalization Project is the creation of meaningful jobs through the development of businesses that are environmentally friendly. KLP will accomplish this by building a film and television production center that will include three sound stages, set construction facilities, pre-production, production, and post-production capabilities. The film and television studios will offer state-of-the-art digital capability, international distribution of daily shoot edits in real time, complete musical and voice dubbing and soundtrack capability. For the first time in the history of Cinema, producers in Hollywood and New York will be able to edit daily film from a "location" shoot from the comfort of their office without the cost of transportation or the inconvenience of time delay.
Attached to Sugar Mill Studios will be the Sugar Mill Film Museum, This dynamic facility will showcase the entire cinematography profession by highlighting films shot on location in Hawaii. Visitors will be able to walk on the beach with Burt Lancaster and Debra Kerr as they watch footage of From Here to Eternity; scream down Waikiki side streets with Jack Lord and Tom Selleck as trailers of Hawaii Five-O and Magnum P. I., roar into their ears. Movie memorabilia will be the name of the game as fifty years of Hawaii cinematography is displayed.
Finally, visitors will be able to take a guided tour of the film studios, but not before they sit through a four-dimensional theatre presentation of Hawaii's most action packed films; they'll be chased though the sky by Japanese Zeroes as they co-pilot Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett across the blood-strewn waters of Pearl Harbor. Then they'll be chased down the aisle by fifty-foot dinosaurs as they race through the high grasses brought to life in Jurassic Park. Sight, sound, and two directional movement will engulf the visitor in a thrill-by-thrill flight into fantasy . . . or will it be reality?
In keeping with the history of the North Shore as one of the planet's foremost surfing Meccas, the Museum will also showcase the history of surfing the wild waves of O'ahu - Sunset Beach, Waimea Bay and a hundred other breaks where the waves tower over twenty feet each winter. Surfing is Hawaii and the museum will showcase it in all its reality.
These three businesses will offer new employment opportunities; meaningful new jobs to an estimated 1,250 of Ko'olau Loa residents; significantly enhance the region's reputation worldwide by showcasing its spectacular beauty and breathtaking recreations of the movies . . . made in Hawaii.
