UH Hilo Student Film foreshadows the Ballistic Missile threat in Hawai'i

Last spring, Zoe Whitney was a student in UH Hilo's playwriting class, and was given the prompt to write a short play about "fake news" in response to issues in the U.S. after the recent Presidential election. The result was a one-act play called "The Last Journalist." The project earned an "A," and went on to win the university's Droste award for playwriting. It was turned into a film last summer as a student/alumni project, and entered into UH Hilo's Vulcan Student Film Festival. Whitney uploaded her entry shortly before the deadline, and 12 hours later, Hawai'i had a real-life scare that was eerily similar to the situation depicted here. People who woke up in Hawai'i on the morning of January 13th to the INCOMING BALLISTIC MISSILE alert on their cell phones will recall how frightening the threat is for those of us who live here. This short film explores the role that a radio DJ and a student intern play in this fictionalized interpretation of what could happen to our island home when international superpowers are overrun by overgrown egos.