360 MAGAZINE’s Culture Editor, Tom Wilmer, visits with the director and cinematographers behind the lens of the award-winning documentary Lahaina Rising.
The producers & videographers share tales of the community’s poignant response to the deadly August, 2023 firestorm that devastated the historic town of Lahaina on the island of Maui and the community’s heartfelt response with a focus on the local organization Lahaina Strong.
Tune in to the podcast with Tom Wilmer for a most illuminating conversation with the producers and videographers of the documentary, Lahaina Rising.
Lahaina Rising won Hawai’i International Film Festival’s “Made in Hawaii” 2025 award–and rightfully so as this documentary delves deep into real-time events that occurred when the August 2023 deadly firestorm destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, Hawai’i.
We’ll meet up with Maui residents, Director/cinematographer, Matty Schweitzer, Blake Remelb, Producer and cinematographer, and impact producers, Amber Bobin and Keely Badger.
Schweitzer noted, “We wanted to tell Lāhainā’s story through the voices of those who lived it. It’s a story not only of loss, but of heroism, advocacy, and hope — of a community fighting for a regenerative future grounded in land justice and aloha ʻāina.”
