Q & A with director H.P. Mendoza will follow the screening.
H.P. Mendoza is a Filipino American writer-director and singer-songwriter based in San Francisco. He is best known as the screenwriter, composer, and star of the film Colma: The Musical (2006). Fruit Fly (2009) is his directorial debut. It tells the story of Bethesda, a Filipina performance artist who moves to San Francisco to workshop her latest piece, which deals with the search for her biological mother. Upon moving, Bethesda discovers clues about her mother’s whereabouts, a new family, and the realization that she just might be a fag hag. For more on the film, visit www.hpmendoza.com
NOTE: The screening of Fruit Fly is presented in conjunction with the course, Film 20A: The Film Experience. In preparation for the event, the class will screen Colma: The Musical on Tuesday, February 16, at 4pm. Then H.P. Mendoza will visit the class to talk to students about independent filmmaking on Thursday, February 18, from 2 to 3:45pm. Both of these events are open to the public, though seating is limited. Unlike the screening of Fruit Fly, these events will occur in Oakes 105. For more information, contact instructor Greg Youmans at gyoumans@ucsc.edu.
This event has been made possible through the support of Film and Digital Media, the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the Lionel Cantú Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Intersex Resource Center.
Free and open to the public. For more information about the event or accessibility: 459-3204 / film@ucsc.edu / http://film.ucsc.edu
Please do not disturb the preceding class in EMS by arriving earlier than 10 minutes before the start of the movie.