Fruit Fly (film)

Fruit Fly is a 2009 musical film with gay and AsianAmerican themes, directed by H.P. Mendoza, who wrote the screenplay for Colma The Musical 2007. The film, made entirely in San Francisco, premiered on March 15, 2009 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. It had a limited oneweek run in New York on September 24, 2010.

Subplots include her relationship with her roommates in the artist commune, and their relationships with each other.During the festival life of Colma The Musical, Mendoza and actress L.A. Renigen would jump back and forth from gay film festival to Asian film festival for about a year. After experiencing the strange treatment Renigen would receive from gay men automatically labeling her as a fag hag, he decided to create Bethesda, a character based on Renigen. Bethesda, like Renigen, is a performance artist who moves to San Francisco to workshop her latest performance piece dealing with finding her biological mother. Also like Renigen, Bethesda finds herself going to gay bars every night and getting labeled a fag hag. The musical film, called irresistible by the San Francisco Chronicle was funded by the Center for Asian American Media and was awarded the Best Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. ........

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