Peter Britos is a writer and visual artist from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. 

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Pete has worked in television, film, radio, gaming, telecommunications and academia.

 

He has taught a wide range of courses at Hawai'i Pacific University, University of Hawai'i-Mānoa, University of California Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media Studies, and at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

 

A painter, filmmaker and novelist, his speculative fiction/sci-fi novel Valley of Spiraling Winds is published by University of Hawaiʻi Press.

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Of his novel, University of Hawai'i professor emeritus Paul Lyons wrote:

 

"This work by Peter Britos is some of the most interesting extrapolative fiction written in and about Hawaiʻi to date—a truly exceptional, outsized, audacious, brilliant piece of writing, on the imaginative and conceptual scale of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas or William Gibson’s Neuromancer."

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VALLEY OF SPIRALING WINDS (2025)

a Spiral Jungle novel

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Feature film HOUSE OF THE SHARK (2026)

Starring: Kamahele & Tiare Thomas Harris.

Writer-Director: Pete Britos