Stones is a mythical Hawaiian tale about a family torn between preserving their native land and life and embracing new people and cultures.

Set at the time of the illegal overthrow of the Hawai’ian monarchy in 1893, the unseated monarchy finds a hero in an unlikely place. Micah, a young thief, is asked to go on a mission that has the promise of reclaiming Hawai’ian identity.

From the earliest voyagers who navigated by starlight to the discovery of habitable planets by astronomers, Rock Bottom Riser examines the all-encompassing encounters of an island world at sea. As lava continues to flow from the earth’s core on the island of Hawaii—posing an imminent danger—a crisis mounts. Astronomers plan to build the world’s largest telescope on Hawaii’s most sacred and revered mountain, Mauna Kea. Based on ancient Polynesian navigation, the arrival of Christian missionaries, and the observatory’s ability to capture the origins of the universe, Rock Bottom Riser surveys the influence of settler colonialism, the search for intelligent life, and the discovery of new worlds as we peer into our own planet’s existence.

A short drama set on the final remaining sugarcane plantation on Maui. Twelve year-old Nua, identifies with the world through her intensely spiritual connection she has with the land but must find a way to tell her mother about the abuse she has suffered there before it closes forever.