Honolulu Festival Wrapup
We’re back from the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, a fantastic experience all around, where A Lower Power was well received by our first real good-sized theater crowd.
Our amazing aloha began the day before the festival, when we arrived not only to a very warm welcome from our hosts, but also from Honolulu Weekly, which gave us a glowing review by film critic Bob Green. Ours was the only festival film to get a full review in the print edition, and the paper’s other featured movie review, for Shrek Forever After, was far less kind.
Our screening on Saturday afternoon gave us further confirmation that A Lower Power is hitting the mark. Big laughs and gasps in all the right places, and plenty of insightful questions in the Q&A afterward. On hand to greet these great fans were (pictured, from left) associate producer and actor Matthew Bridges; actor Terri J. Freedman; writer Tim Bland; and director Robert O’Geen.
A huge mahalo to everyone at the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival. It’s hard to imagine that a festival could be better run or its staff kinder or more helpful. We’re so grateful to have been included in a such a high-quality slate of films, and to have met and made friends with some of the artists behind them.
It feels like the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival has kicked open the door for our debut feature. We hope to have news of more screenings soon.
See more photos and tidbits from the festival on the A Lower Power Facebook page.
High Praise from Honolulu Weekly
A Lower Power has gotten its first review. Bob Green, critic for Honolulu Weekly, calls the movie "Funny, engaging and believable" and considers it a highlight of the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival:
"In an era of deeply shallow gay films … it’s a movie that knows what it really wants, gets behind that and delivers something well worth seeing. A Lower Power rises head and shoulders above other comedy-dramas in this year’s fest because it’s about something: It’s not just about what it means to be gay but what it means to be human."
A Lower Power screens Saturday, May 29 at 2pm at the Honolulu Academy of Arts’ Doris Duke Theatre. Get tickets now.
Meet Us in Honolulu
We’re less than a week away from the opening of the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival. You can get tickets for A Lower Power and the rest of the program online.
The screening of A Lower Power, at 2pm Saturday, May 29, will include a Q-and-A session afterward. Here’s who’ll be representing our film at the festival:
- Director Robert O’Geen
- Writer Tim Bland
- Actor Terri J. Freedman ("Emmy")
- Associate Producer and Actor Matthew Bridges ("Gary")
Find out more about everyone on our just-added cast-and-crew bios page. Hope to see you in Honolulu!
Honolulu Unveils Full Lineup
The Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival has announced its full 2010 program and schedule. The festival, at the Honolulu Academy of Arts’ Doris Duke Theatre, opens Thursday, May 27, and closes Sunday night, May 30, with the Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation Gala at Ka in the Victoria Ward Center.
A Lower Power screens at 2 pm. on Saturday, May 29, preceded by the short film Steam. A Lower Power director Robert O’Geen, writer Tim Bland, and actor Terri J. Freedman will be in attendance.
We’re excited to be a part of what looks to be an impressive festival lineup.
Tickets go on sale May 17.
New “Lower Power” Trailer
Leading up to our May 29 screening in the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, we have a new trailer. View it in HD here or on YouTube.
