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Kanani Koster

Location:
United States
Languages:
English
Issues:
Climate Change, Education, Racial Injustice, Women and Girls
Expertise:
Impact Producing, Alternative Distribution
Cultural/racial identity:
Hawaiian, Kanaka Maoli, Japanese,
Self identification:
woman

Bio

Kanani Koster is the Impact and Acquisitions Manager for Collective Eye Films. She has spoken on numerous panels on race, diversity and representation in film. Kanani is the 2020 Oregon Made Film Grant winner for the docu-short, Any Oregon Sunday, and a 2020 Portland Arts Museum Re:Imagined Artist recipient. She has worked in the marketing and outreach department for both Seattle International Film Festival and the Northwest Film Center. As the Impact Manager for Collective Eye she has implemented campaigns for Personhood: Policing Pregnant Women in America and other catalogue films focusing on community driven social change and partnerships with notable organizations like ACLU and NAPW.