Brian Kohne, Maui Film Commissioner, is an award-winning motion picture writer/director/producer (Get A Job, Kuleana), music producer (Barefoot Natives, Willie K), and playwright (White Hawaiian w/Eric Gilliom). A 1982 Baldwin High graduate and Art and Radio/TV/Film alumnus of San Jose State, he returned home 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 assistant professor who built the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawaii, Maui College.