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Teens Use YouTube Stardom To Make Film

POSTED: 2:58 pm HST November 9, 2008
UPDATED: 3:17 pm HST November 9, 2008

Two teenagers from Hilo have used their YouTube stardom to make a feature film that premiered this weekend.

Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi's YouTube videos have garnered more than 150 million views.

Their work attracted the attention of a Los Angeles movie producer who offered to create a feature-film movie for them called "Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure."

Higa and Fujiyoshi started making videos because they were bored after school and didn't want to go outside in the rain.

Those videos developed a global following after Higa and Fujiyoshi posted them on YouTube.

As of Sunday, their channel has more than 623,000 subscribers, the second highest number on the video-sharing site.

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