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.
