Maui Film Commissioner Brian Kohne is an award-winning motion picture writer/director/producer (Get A Job, Kuleana) and music producer (Barefoot Natives, Willie K) who grew up on Maui. A 1982 Baldwin High graduate and an Art and Radio/TV/Film alumnus of San Jose State, he returned to Maui in 2005 from Silicon Valley, having excelled as a national director of sales and marketing, as a senior user interface architect for an interactive television corporation, and in sports broadcasting and corporate video production. Kohne is also a tenured associate professor who also built the Academy for Creative Media at University of Hawaii Maui College.