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Wong-Kalu, along with film maker Dean Hamer and director Joe Wilson, produced the short film, Lady Eva and feature documentary Leitis in Waiting about the struggle of the Indigenous transgender community in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. The films screened and won awards at AFI Docs and the LA, Margaret Mead, FIFO and Festival of Commonwealth Film and were broadcast on PBS/Pacific Heartbeat, ARTE, Maori TV, TV France and NITV. Since the production of Leitis in Waiting, the film co-directed by Kumu Hina was recently granted the GLAAD Media Award, accurately portraying issues among LGBTQI+ communities.

In 2020, Wong-Kalu directed, produced and narrated Kapaemahu, an animated short film based on the Hawaiian story of four legendary mahu who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i and imbued their powers on giant boulders that still stand on Waikiki Beach. Narrated in the rare Niihau dialect of Hawaiian, the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and qualified for the Oscars at Animayo.