The 38th annual Hawaii International Film Festival is underway at the Dole Cannery theaters.

One of the features this year is by local musician Justin Young. He’s making his debut as a director with his documentary film “My Hero’s Shadow: From Hitman to Hero.”

The movie focuses on the relationship between Maile Stant and her older brother Shane.

Shane Stant went to prison after he infamously hit figure skater Nancy Kerrigan with a baton in 1994.

Young said, “Shane gives never before heard details about the attack and tells his whole side of everything. He talks about Tonya Harding and he also gives an apology to Nancy Kerrigan. He talks about the way that he fells he impacted her life. Not just physically but on a deeper level.”

“I had spent the last 20 something years just completely out of the limelight and had no desire to be in it. But the fact that it was a Hawaiian production was huge. A lot of people didn’t realize I was actually Hawaiian,” said Shane Stant.

Stant is of Hawaiian descent and his family is from here.

The next screening of “My Hero’s Shadow” is on Wednesday, November 14 at 3:30p.m.

Both Stand and Young will be there for a question and answer session after the movie.

For more information: https://www.hiff.org/