A streaming platform for films from Maui and the Hawaiian Islands, built on Maui. The opening slate is being programmed right now — and the filmmakers who join it are the catalog everyone else will discover. Set your price. Keep 70% of every rental. Get paid the moment someone presses rent.
Submissions reviewed within 48 hours by real curators.
Films by filmmakers based in Hawaiʻi. The platform is built around the place — its stories, its people, its responsibility to itself. Hawaiian residency is verified through Stripe.
Every film here was approved by a person who watched it. No algorithm decides what belongs. The curatorial team is small on purpose — invited, named, accountable.
Of every rental, 70% routes directly to the filmmaker's bank at the moment of the transaction — not held back for monthly settlement. The remaining 30% covers payment processing, video infrastructure, and keeps Maui Stream running.
Maui Stream is built for your entire catalog — feature films and two-minute shorts, documentaries, series, shows, animation. Every piece gets its own page, its own price, and its own audience. No gatekeepers deciding your work doesn't fit, no algorithm burying it — and 70% of every rental lands in your account the moment it happens.
This is a streaming home where Hawaiʻi filmmakers publish their work, set their own rental price, and keep 70% of every rental — paid directly, in real time. You keep all rights to your film, always. Upload from your studio, and a real curator watches it and writes back within 48 hours.
Nothing goes live without a person saying yes. That review isn't a gate to keep you out — it's there to protect you. Before your film is public, we help you double-check the things that catch new filmmakers by surprise: music you don't have rights to, archival footage that needs clearing, people on camera who haven't given permission. Catching that together before launch is how everyone — you, your subjects, and the platform — stays safe.
And you're not doing this alone. Maui Stream is run by people from your own community — reply to any email we send and a real person answers. If you're stuck on an upload, a price, or a rights question, ask: aloha@mauistream.org.
Maui Stream is a collaboration between Akakū Maui Community Media — Maui's community media organization since 1991 — and Shoots Productions, which built and operates the platform.