{"id":1716,"date":"2026-06-23T06:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:34:37","slug":"one-year-to-forever-filmmaker-shares-love-for-hometown-lahaina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One Year to Forever\u2019 filmmaker shares love for hometown Lahaina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<p>LAHAINA (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; With a red carpet rolled out, loved ones welcomed home Paul Venus and his wife, Fiona, during a private screening at Maui Mall theaters in Kahului last week. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1714\">New law to expand affordable homeownership opportunities in Hawaii<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Venus premiered his film \u201cOne Year to Forever\u201d to family and friends which he describes as a \u201clife-umentary\u201d about his life and love for his hometown of Lahaina. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018One Year to Forever\u2019 is a love story about marriage, memory, and the realization that there\u2019s nothing quite like coming home to Maui,\u201d Venus said.<\/p>\n<p>Venus grew up in Lahaina. His father, John Venus Jr., had a television station, MCTV Channel 7, that broadcast Lahaina news in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe ran local sports, Lahainaluna football games, and Halloween was a really big event for Channel 7 back then,\u201d Venus said. \u201cWe did a live to tape show on Front Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1712\">Dwayne Johnson, Catherine Laga\u2019aia on Polynesian representation in live-action \u2018Moana\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Venus is an award-winning television editor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my dreams was always to work and live in Hollywood and make movies,\u201d he said. \u201cI got the opportunity to work for NBC Universal initially, where I worked for NBC Nightly News and the Today Show and then Dateline NBC, and then I went to work for CBS News.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Venus is now entering a new chapter of his life and created something personal that others could relate to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially, it was going to be an anniversary video for our wedding,\u201d said Venus. \u201cAs I thought about it more, it became something else, it became something bigger. 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