Island Film Group is a Hawai‘i-based entertainment production and financing company. Through our related companies, we work with local, national and international filmmakers to develop and produce film and television projects in and about Hawai‘i for domestic and international distribution.

PRINCIPALS

Ricardo Galindez attended both undergraduate and law school at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was general counsel to a number of software companies before moving to Hawaii in 2001 to join Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, Hawai'i's oldest and largest full service law firm. He played a major role as a partner in the Entertainment Law Group, where he honed his corporate structuring and financing skills while representing studio clients such as Twentieth Century Fox, ABC/Touchstone/Disney and Warner Bros. as well as independent filmmakers. Ric has garnered a strong reputation in the area of film financing and is regarded as an expert in Act 221/215 and Act 88 financing for film and television projects in Hawaii. He has also lectured at the University of Hawai'i's Academy of Creative Media on entertainment law. Ric currently serves on the boards of the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) and the Film and Video Association of Hawaii (FAVAH).

Roy Tjioe has roots in Hong Kong and Indonesia, and he attended Millfield School in Somerset, England, but he has called Hawai'i home since 1980. At the William S. Richardson School of Law, he was Comments Editor for the Law Review, and he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Bernard Levinson Memorial Award for outstanding essay on Constitutional Law. Roy was a successful litigation attorney at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel from 1988 and was a partner from 1996 until his departure in 2007. From 2002, he led Goodsill's Entertainment Law Group, where he represented local, national and international film and television producers, including Twentieth Century Fox, ABC/Touchstone/Disney and Warner Bros. as well as independent filmmakers. He has lectured at the University of Hawai'i's Pacific New Media and the Academy of Creative Media on entertainment law.

In addition to his legal background, Roy is an aspiring screenwriter [3rd Place (Drama), American Accolades Screenwriting Competition; quarterfinalist, CineStory Screenwriting Awards], and has acted in numerous local stage and independent film productions (his recent Chinese language film "Dao" won a Special Jury Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival). His artwork has been featured on the covers of the Hawai'i Bar Journal and he also works as a professional storyboard artist.