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Program
 10000 HEARTS Shy high school student, Nate has been bullied into artistic servitude by his sister and has resigned himself to social invisibility. Until he meets Logan, a charming upperclassman. Now Nate must summon the courage to stand up to his sister once and for... |
 2011 HRFF GALA The 22nd annual HRFF Gala Event will be held on Friday, May 13 at Chai’s Island Bistro in the Aloha Tower Marketplace. Join us for an exciting evening of delicious food prepared by renowned chef, Chai Chaowasaree, wonderful entertainment, special guest... |
 THE ADVOCATE FOR FAGDOM The story of a pioneer of the "New Queer Cinema". Bruce LaBruce ("L.A.Zombie", "Otto, or, Up with Dead People", & "The Raspberry Reich") John Waters, Bruce Benderson, Harmony Korine, Gus Van Sant, Richard Kern, Rick Castro and others deliver their... |
 BEASTY TRAINING A work-out tutorial spontaneously shot with elite athletes and crude humor. This short film tackles squatting, spotting, and man-cuddling! It is the total body workout! Starring MTV’s Silent Library host, Zero Kazama, “Beasty Training” will leave... |
 BEYOND GAY - THE POLITICS OF PRIDE This festival award-winning documentary is the most comprehensive look at the role of Pride Parades ever undertaken. This feature length documentary follows the Vancouver Pride Society’s (VPS) Parade Director Ken Coolen and his VPS colleagues as they... |
 BOYS AND GIRLS Young and attractive Keith and Marion are each getting ready at their homes for a date. |
 BROKEN VASE A dramedy about a young woman who must confront her fiance's secret past and resolve her misgivings when she meets his ex. |
 CHO DEPENDENT Through a combination of her classic comedy (mom impersonations) routines along with a collection of music with laugh-inducing lyrics, comedian Margaret Cho returns to the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival with the world premiere of Cho Dependent. Her... **Light Reception starting at 7:00 PM, hosted by Whole Foods Kahala and Waialua Soda Works** |
 CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME On the planet Zots, the ozone layer is being depleted because of too much "big feeling": Zotsians radiate love, which in turn destroys the ozone layer. Three lesbian women of Zots are banished to Earth to have their heart broken so they will no longer... |
 CRIED SUICIDE The things we do for love… Desperate for attention and heartbroken over an ex-girlfriend, Jay fakes a suicide attempt. This dark comedy shows the extent some will go to for an emotional reaction from an ex. Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival |
 CURIOUS THING Jared is closeted. Sam is straight. They find a connection in each other that neither has man has had before, but where do they go from there? Documentary audio of gay men recounting their experiences with straight men acts as the narration for this... |
 E-CUPID After seven years with his boyfriend, Marshall's love life has become too comfortable. He goes looking for a new life online, where he comes upon a mysterious app that guarantees to find true love. Newly single and ready for adventure, "eCupid"... **Light Reception starting at 5:00 PM, hosted by Whole Foods Kahala and Waialua Soda Works** |
 FIT Skins meets Glee when a last chance dance class becomes a therapeutic encounter between adolescents struggling with their ideas about sexuality and adulthood in a very British comedy. Everything from secret crushes to homophobic attitudes are revealed by... |
 GAYBY A gay man and a straight woman decide to have a child together the old fashioned way. Warning: This film contains an incredibly awkward sex scene. |
 GOING DOWN IN LA LA LAND Based on the novel by Andy Zeffer, "Going Down in LA-LA Land" is a story that reflects our celebrity-obsessed culture and a revealing look at some people's desire to be loved, adored, and adulated at any cost. Aspiring actor Adam moves to LA to finds... **Opening Night Reception starting at 6:00 PM, hosted by Whole Foods Kahala and Waialua Soda Works** |
 GUN HILL ROAD After three years in prison, macho Enrique (Esai Morales) returns to the Bronx to find the world he once knew has turned upside down. His wife, Angela (Judy Reyes), struggles to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage son, Michael (newcomer Harmony... |
 I WAS A TEENAGE WEREBEAR Gay adult superstar, Sean Lockhart aka Brent Corrigan, stars in the leading role as a closeted new kid who falls for Malibu High’s mysterious bad boy. As an homage to the Drive-In movies of the 50’s and 60’s, “I Was a Teenage Werebear”... |
 LOOP PLANES Animosity turns into romance as 13 year-old Nick meets a pink haired girl named Katie at an amusement park. Just as Nick and Katie are about to share their first kiss, their intimacy takes an unexpected turn. |
 MASALA MAMA A young boy aspires to become a comic book artist but can’t afford to purchase comic books. When he steals one from the gentle owner of a small Indian shop (a ‘mama’ shop), they each discover that appearances aren’t always the way they seem. |
 ROMEOS 20-years-old Lukas is right in the midst of male puberty - medically triggered – for he was in fact born a girl. Full of the zest for life, he enters big-city life and into the scene of homosexuals. Here Lukas experiences his first real flirt – with... |
 SPRING Spring is about a young man, Joe, seeking to discover his sexual boundaries with a stranger. Rightly or wrongly, Joe decides to venture down an unconventional path where he finds moments in equal measure that repel and excite him profoundly. Sundance... |
 THREE A Berlin-set drama written & directed by acclaimed German director Tom Tykwer ("Run, Lola, Run", "The International" & "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer") centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man. Aside from... |
 THREE VEILS The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, this film delicately tackles some of the... **Light Reception starting at 6:45 PM, hosted by Whole Foods Kahala and Waialua Soda Works** |
 TRIPLE STANDARD When the man he’s shared his life with for five years threatens to leave him for homophobic behavior in the locker room showers, comments and innuendo, a former professional athlete, is forced to face the reality that he himself is gay. |
 UNCLE DAVID Uncle David is a love story between a middle aged man and his young nephew, Ashley, which boldly imagines a world without an age of consent, a world where there are only consensual acts of love. We spend a weekend with the 2 of them as they prepare each... |
 WE ONCE WERE TIDE Set on an Island off the South Coast of England, this film tells the story of Anthony and Kyle, and their last night together as Kyle moves away leaving Anthony to look after his terminally ill mother. “We Once Were Tide” explores the intimate and... |
 WE WERE HERE 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... |
 A WOMAN NAMED CANYON SAM "A Woman Named Canyon Sam" is a portrait documentary exploring the intersecting identities of Canyon Sam, a Bay Area based Asian American lesbian performance artist, author and activist. |
 YES MAN Nathan, a devout Christian, a video editor of a conservative church, and a closeted homosexual, faces a personal crisis when he is told he will star in a commercial in favor of Prop 8. |
 YOU MOVE ME Two cynical best friends embark on a covert mission to retrieve the last batch of stuff from the apartment of a seductive ex-girlfriend. “You Move Me” is a classic American buddy comedy, a butch bromance, a road movie, a break-up flick, set in an... |
