I’m this year’s Artist-in-Residence at the 2024 Ouray International Film Festival! Excited to reconnect with Ouray alums and congratulations to this year’s Scholar-in-Residence, James Choi!
Here’s what Ouray International has to say:
This year’s Artist-in-Residence is H.P. Mendoza. Mendoza is a Filipino-American filmmaker best known for his work as screenwriter, composer and lyricist on Colma: The Musical (2006), as well as his art-house horror film, I Am a Ghost (2014) called “H.P. Mendoza’s objet d’art” by Dennis Harvey of Variety. After his directorial debut Fruit Fly (2009), David Lamble of the San Francisco Bay Area Reporter dubbed Mendoza “San Francisco’s queer cinema poet”. In 2012, Mendoza was inducted into Essential SF by the San Francisco Film Society which supported his Filipino-American dramedy Bitter Melon (2018) which placed on over a dozen Top 10 lists after its 2018 theatrical run and was hailed as one of the “20 Best Bay Area Films of the Decade” by the Mercury News. Mendoza is also known for his music and art installations including, Attack, Decay, Release, winner of the 2022 Grand Jury Prize at the Tallgrass Film Festival. At OIFF 2024, you can experience a live performance and screening of the film with Mendoza.
Mendoza recently won the 2023 Best Director award at the Ouray International Film Festival for The Secret Art of Human Flight starring Academy Award nominee Paul Raci and Grant Rosenmeyer. The Secret Art of Human Flight opens in theaters this summer.
This could be just what I need to pull me out of this death hole.