HAWAIIAN GARDENS
2001
"Shot 'Dogma' style as with surveillance cameras. Best new film out of Germany you’ll never see."
- The Hollywood Reporter
"Reveals an electric screen presence in newcomer Valeria Hernandez as the Chicana wth ambition to burn.”
- Variety
A film by Percy Adlon
André Eiserman • Richard Bradford
Valeria Hernandez
Shareen Mitchell, Tsi Ma, Gerhard Geschwind
Michael Grimm, Florian Fitz
With Richard Roundtree
Can't Find My Way written by Bob Telson
Performed by Jevetta Steele
A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.
Screenplay by Percy and Eleonore Adlon
Produced by Eleonore Adlon
Produced for television by Benigna von Keyserlingk
Director of Photography – Rudolpho Paul
Editor – Jochen Künstler
Production design – Bernt Amadeus Capra, Camilla Nagler
Costume design – Christina Kern, Stacy Porter
Music by Bob Telson
A co-production of pelemele Film, Munich; Leora Films, Santa Monica; and Bayerischer Rundfunk
Premiered at the Munich Film Festival, 2002
Shot on minidv transferred to 35mm
Silverlake (Los Angeles) and Frauenau, Bavaria
July/August 2000
English, 107 min
