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'Milk' writer joins Rainbow fest
Dustin Lance Black will be in a "gayla" event featuring a local short film, screenings and pupus
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 15, 2009
The appearance of the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Milk" highlights the 20th anniversary of the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, one of the longest-running gay and lesbian film festivals in the country.
THE 20TH HONOLULU RAINBOW FILM FESTIVALIn honor of late isle gay-rights activist Adam Baran:» Where: Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Arts » When: Thursday through May 24 » Cost: $10 general ($75 film passes and $100 festival passes are also available, which includes a "gayla" reception at 7:30 p.m. Sunday) » Info: 381-1952 or 388-8234; www.hglcf.org
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(Black also testified before California's Senate last week in favor of a proposed bill to declare May 22 Harvey Milk Day in honor of the memory and birth date of the slain San Francisco gay rights leader. The bill later moved out of committee with a favorable 7-2 vote and now moves to the state Senate.)
Two shorts will precede the showing of "Milk": "Let's Not Even Go There!," a comedic
illustration of an angry voice mail by Faye Dunaway, and the locally made "Beauty Brawl," by Kevyn Fong, which was funded by the University of Hawaii's Academy for Creative Media GLBT Filmmaker's Initiative Award.
A "gayla" reception will end the evening with drinks, pupus and entertainment, all hosted by Los Angeles comedy writer and personality Bruce Vilanch.
The schedule includes:
» 7 p.m. Thursday: Opening night festivities include a welcoming performance piece by dancer-c horeographer Peter Rockford Espiritu and a showing of "Clapham Junction," a drama that follows the overlapping stories of a number of gay men whose lives intersect through a senseless act of brutality over the course of one late summer weekend in London.
» 1:30 to 6 p.m. May 22: Free education and outreach screenings of "Third Sex (Fafa'afine)," about a New Zealand AIDS organization's work with the transgendered; "June's Story," telling of the arrest and charge against a Maori man in 1929 for impersonating a woman; Kathryn Xian and Brent Anbe's 2001 documentary of the Honolulu gay scene, "Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place"; the coming-of-age short "Clouded"; and "Trinidad," a documentary that follows three transgender women who live in the Colorado town that's becoming a mecca for transsexuals.
» 2 to 4 p.m. May 23: Free screenings of "for my wife ...," chronicling the life of tireless same-sex equal rights activist Charlene Strong of Seattle, bookended by the shorts "The Defenders" (about the outrage surrounding the passage of Proposition 8, the California law banning same-sex marriage) and "Finding Family: Gay Adoption in the U.S."
There are also an array of special "boyz" and "girlz" shorts and feature films that fill out the remainder of the Rainbow Film Festival, including:
» 4 to 6 p.m. May 23: As part of the Girlz Shortz program, screenings of the Australian drama "Lightswitch" and the film noir-ish "Tremble & Spark" are planned.
In addition, the Girlz feature films, first at 8 p.m. May 22, will be "When Kiran Met Karen," written and directed by Manan Katohora. Set in New York City, it's the controversial love story between a famous Bollywood actress, on the verge of being an international star, and a neophyte magazine writer. On May 23 at 6 p.m., it's the world premiere of "Ferron ... girl on a road," about the lesbian folk singer-songwriter pioneer's reunion with her band and their first concert trek together in more than a decade.
» 2 to 5 p.m. May 24: The Boyz Shortz lineup includes the U.S. films "Boycrazy," called "a boy meets boy meets boy ... musical," and the high-school drama "Weak Species." The Boyz feature films are "Shank" (6 p.m. May 22), a gritty British coming-of-age/rites of passage drama, and "Soundless Wind Chime" (8 p.m. May 23), which tells the poetic journey a new Chinese immigrant in Hong Kong makes to Switzerland in search of the past of the deceased Swiss lover he met in the former British colony.
For a complete schedule, visit www.hglcf.org.
The appearance of the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Milk" highlights the 20th anniversary of the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, one of the longest-running gay and lesbian film festivals in the country.
THE 20TH HONOLULU RAINBOW FILM FESTIVALIn honor of late isle gay-rights activist Adam Baran:» Where: Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Arts » When: Thursday through May 24 » Cost: $10 general ($75 film passes and $100 festival passes are also available, which includes a "gayla" reception at 7:30 p.m. Sunday) » Info: 381-1952 or 388-8234; www.hglcf.org
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(Black also testified before California's Senate last week in favor of a proposed bill to declare May 22 Harvey Milk Day in honor of the memory and birth date of the slain San Francisco gay rights leader. The bill later moved out of committee with a favorable 7-2 vote and now moves to the state Senate.)
Two shorts will precede the showing of "Milk": "Let's Not Even Go There!," a comedic
illustration of an angry voice mail by Faye Dunaway, and the locally made "Beauty Brawl," by Kevyn Fong, which was funded by the University of Hawaii's Academy for Creative Media GLBT Filmmaker's Initiative Award.
A "gayla" reception will end the evening with drinks, pupus and entertainment, all hosted by Los Angeles comedy writer and personality Bruce Vilanch.
The schedule includes:
» 7 p.m. Thursday: Opening night festivities include a welcoming performance piece by dancer-c horeographer Peter Rockford Espiritu and a showing of "Clapham Junction," a drama that follows the overlapping stories of a number of gay men whose lives intersect through a senseless act of brutality over the course of one late summer weekend in London.
» 1:30 to 6 p.m. May 22: Free education and outreach screenings of "Third Sex (Fafa'afine)," about a New Zealand AIDS organization's work with the transgendered; "June's Story," telling of the arrest and charge against a Maori man in 1929 for impersonating a woman; Kathryn Xian and Brent Anbe's 2001 documentary of the Honolulu gay scene, "Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place"; the coming-of-age short "Clouded"; and "Trinidad," a documentary that follows three transgender women who live in the Colorado town that's becoming a mecca for transsexuals.
» 2 to 4 p.m. May 23: Free screenings of "for my wife ...," chronicling the life of tireless same-sex equal rights activist Charlene Strong of Seattle, bookended by the shorts "The Defenders" (about the outrage surrounding the passage of Proposition 8, the California law banning same-sex marriage) and "Finding Family: Gay Adoption in the U.S."
There are also an array of special "boyz" and "girlz" shorts and feature films that fill out the remainder of the Rainbow Film Festival, including:
» 4 to 6 p.m. May 23: As part of the Girlz Shortz program, screenings of the Australian drama "Lightswitch" and the film noir-ish "Tremble & Spark" are planned.
In addition, the Girlz feature films, first at 8 p.m. May 22, will be "When Kiran Met Karen," written and directed by Manan Katohora. Set in New York City, it's the controversial love story between a famous Bollywood actress, on the verge of being an international star, and a neophyte magazine writer. On May 23 at 6 p.m., it's the world premiere of "Ferron ... girl on a road," about the lesbian folk singer-songwriter pioneer's reunion with her band and their first concert trek together in more than a decade.
» 2 to 5 p.m. May 24: The Boyz Shortz lineup includes the U.S. films "Boycrazy," called "a boy meets boy meets boy ... musical," and the high-school drama "Weak Species." The Boyz feature films are "Shank" (6 p.m. May 22), a gritty British coming-of-age/rites of passage drama, and "Soundless Wind Chime" (8 p.m. May 23), which tells the poetic journey a new Chinese immigrant in Hong Kong makes to Switzerland in search of the past of the deceased Swiss lover he met in the former British colony.
For a complete schedule, visit www.hglcf.org.
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