Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival 2009

Focusing on a boy in Northern Ireland isolated by his sexuality and alienated from his family due to his parent’s marital troubles, “James” reaches out in desperation to his teacher for support and guidance.

June’s Story tells the relatively unknown story of Hune Nikora Haora. In 1929, 28-year-old Haora was arrested and charged for impersonating a woman. The film explores how she made the transformation, and how she was “caught.”

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering A Sense of Place, while covering several aspects of the Honolulu gay scene, including Hawaiian culture and history, the drag scene, HIV, and religion tells the story of a varied people surviving stereotypes, indignation, homophobia, and marginalization in a land where the ancient culture once accepted them as a part of society.

Faye Dunaway's infamous voicemail, creatively conceptualized and edited by Mike Justice.

A story has to be lived before it can be told.

Join us for an intimate evening with screenwriter/executive producer Dustin Lance Black as our keynote speaker for our 20th Anniversary of the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival at the Doris Duke Theatre and our Gayla Celebration at the Henry Luce Pavilion.

In this 'filmed-in-one-shot' follow-up to his 2005 award-winning comedy short 'Ryan's Life', director Nick Wauters gets inside the minds of the patrons of a gay bar. And it's not pretty.

At the post office, a handsome customer grabs everyone’s attention when he starts to mail mysterious postcards. The two girls behind the counter battle over the meaning of this stranger’s actions, but the battle is misplaced, as one of the girls is soon to discover...

Worlds collide between three strangers divided by economics, social status, gender, race and sexuality.