Wow. The Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. To have a LGBT film fest in Mumbai is a huge deal. What’s ballsy, too, is to call it a queer festival (which I prefer to LGBT). I wish I could be there to see Fruit Fly play in Mumbai.
http://www.mumbaiqueerfest.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=39&Itemid=64
Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Fruit Fly the musical/comedy/drama by local filmmaker H.P. Mendoza. It follows the story of Bethesda, a Filipina performance artist, in a nuanced, charming portrayal by L.A. Renigen, who moves to San Francisco to try to stage a work-in-progress version of her one woman show. She moves into a communal house [...]
“FRUIT FLY['s] deceptively casual mash-up and embrace of ethnic and sexual identity politics is nuanced enough to fuel a masters’ thesis. It’s also textbook guerrilla filmmaking, a loud-and-proud, indie-Asian/gay hijacking of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg that turns the Mission, the Castro and more into an all-singing, all-dancing whirl.” – Jason Sanders, Filmmaker Magazine Holy crap! From December [...]
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