Television
LaLa
In 2009, I followed L.A. Renigen and E. Spark around Los Angeles eating Asian food and interviewing Asian chefs. The show premiered on Comcast in March. This was a six episode series we called “LaLa”.
I was shocked to find out from our producer, Don Young, that LaLa was getting great reviews and that people were trying to find it online.
L.A. Renigen and I are about to talk about the future of this series and whether or not our stomachs can handle another non-stop eating session.
In the meantime, I’m gathering all of the episodes of season one and will put them up here in January.
under construction.
Until January, here’s a taste of LaLa:
Blossom
I wrote a new piece called “Autumn” that will be used in Julia Kwan’s new short film, Blossom that will be screened as part of the Olympics in 2010.
Here is a piece of the song:
AUTUMN (pt. 3)
PIA
A science fiction film written and directed by Tanuj Chopra (Punching at the Sun).
Originally, I was only supposed to star in this film as a bigot cop but after the shoot, Tanuj decided to hire me as the sound designer, as well.
Here are two clips of the same scene: one with sound design, the other without.
PIA SCENE – WITH SOUND DESIGN
PIA SCENE – NO SOUND DESIGN
ersatzdesign
ersatzdesign.com
ersatzdesign is
Mark Del Lima, Jef Cunningham, Keiko Chaffee and H.P. Mendoza
ersatzdesign has been the design company behind high profile ad campaigns, national educational campaigns and next generation video-games.
ersatzdesign is branching out into different territory, now, with film–feature and short, narrative, documentary and experimental.
ersatzfilm has been formed with Fruit Fly being its first project.
under construction.
ABOUT / CONTACT
ABOUT H.P. MENDOZA/CONTACT
H.P. Mendoza
Films
* 2006 – Colma: The Musical – screenwriter, lyricist, composer, actor
* 2007 – Option 3 – screenwriter, lyricist, composer, editor
* 2008 – Abuela – co-director, composer
* 2008 – Fruit Fly – director, screenwriter, lyricist, composer, editor, actor
* 2008 – Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/Conversation Storm – co-director, cinematographer, editor
* 2009 – A Lower Power – composer
* 2009 – PIA – actor, sound designer
* 2009 – Blossom – composer
* 2009 – Victor Yang – sound editor
* 2010 – Clockwise (IN DEVELOPMENT) – director, screenwriter
Television
* 2009 – LALA (TV) – director, composer, editor (8 episodes)
Theater
* 2004 – Magic At – co-writer
* 2007 – The Necessity of Hank – cinematographer
* 2008 – I’m Yours! (or Deranged by Love) – lyricist, composer, musical director
Discography
* 2003 – Family (limited release)
* 2004 – Everything is Pop
* 2006 – Nomad
* 2007 – Colma: The Musical (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
* 2007 – Whiskey and Wine (limited release 2CD set)
* 2008 – Fruit Fly (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
* 2009 – Elsewhere
* 2010 – Melodica
H.P. Mendoza on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.P._Mendoza
H.P. Mendoza on IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2208558/
H.P. Mendoza can be contacted via e-mail at hp@hpmendoza.com
H. P. Mendoza (born March 13, 1977, San Francisco, California) is a Filipino American writer-director, and singer-songwriter based in San Francisco best known as the screenwriter and composer for the film Colma: The Musical, directed by Richard Wong. In 2006, he was listed as one of the Top 15 Creative Talents of 2006 by UCLA Asia Pacific Arts. His most recent work, Fruit Fly, premiered on March 15, 2009 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and is the winner of their Best Narrative Feature Audience Award. Fruit Fly is his directorial debut.
