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Mahalo for your interest in entering your film into the 2012 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival.
This Friday, December 16, is the early film entry deadline for the 2012 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival.  The film submission fees below apply to films that are postmarked by December 16, 2011.  This year the festival will be held at the Doris Duke Theatre on May 31 to June 3, 2012.

Access the application process by clicking on link below:

Send your screener DVD(s) to:
Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival-HGLCF
Attn: Programming Committee
1670 Makaloa Street #204, PMB #370
Honolulu, Hawaii 96814

HGLCF is currently in search of a key visual for the 23rd Annual Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival!

23rd Annual Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival Key Visual
Artist Guidelines & Rules

The key visual for the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival should follow the following guidelines and rules:
1.  Visually convey the LGBTQ focus of the festival.
2.  Visually convey the Honolulu venue of the festival.
3.  Visually convey the “film or movie medium” of the festival.
4.  Reproduce well in color and B+W, in both large and small sizes.
5.  Be submitted in or capable of being easily converted to digital (vector) format.
6.  Be able to secure copyright permission for HGLCF to have rights to submitted image
to reproduce in all print, film, and video formats for the coming year of the festival, and in
the web archive indefinitely.

Submissions should be delivered, mailed or sent to HGLCF at its mailing or email address
and are due by 9 December 2011.

Presented in honor of World AIDS Day and making an encore performance after screening at the 22nd Annual Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, the award-winning, acclaimed documentary, WE WERE HERE will show at the Doris Duke Theatre this Thursday, December 1.

We Were Here documents the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. This documentary takes a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the City’s inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, the calamitous epidemic. This year, 2011, will mark 30 years since AIDS descended. Like an unrelenting hurricane, the epidemic roiled San Francisco for two decades and only began granting some reprieve with medical advancements in the late 90’s.

An official selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, We Were Here, is a film that extends beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself. It speaks to our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, and to the incredible power of a community coming together with love, compassion, and determination.

For tickets and more info on this upcoming screening, click here.

WE WERE HERE (trailer) from David Weissman on Vimeo.

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eCupid, starring Houston Rhimes, Noah Schuffman & Morgan Fairchild

Did you miss the world premiere of J.C. Calciano’s “eCupid” earlier this year at the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival? If so, you’ve got one five more chances to see it, coming soon on November 25 & 26. eCupid won the Jack Law Award at HRFF 2011.

The film is not yet available on DVD, so this is likely your last chance to see it here in Hawaii. Also, check out our previous blog post featuring a Q&A with actor Mike C. Manning (“Myles” in the film).

Click here for more information and to buy tickets online.