The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational at Waimea Bay, January 22, 2023  📷 © Renea Gavrilov Stewart

We call ourselves Rock Salt Media.  Rock means Pōhaku in Hawaiian. Pōhaku is the very foundation that supports life on land. Salt or Paʻakai, which translates to sea salt, is critical to the preservation and perpetuation of many Native Hawaiian traditions and customary practices.  Our name is very meaningful to us.  

We are content creators – we write, produce and direct. We listen and learn and the result from our research  turns into something special – a documentary, short, PSA and website messaging too. Video, audio, photography and music for every platform –because we do the job we love.

We won an Emmy for our series Family Ingredients which has been nominated multiple times for a Day Time Emmy. We continue our passion to produce high-quality projects from documentaries, television series, commercials, educational videos to website content and more, all supporting our community needs – because we love the job we do.  

Based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, we’ve been around since the age of videotape focusing on our Pacific Islander communities.   We are a trusted organization committed to our community and its preservation and perpetuation of its stories.