Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival 2009

Soundless Wind Chime is the poetic journey of Ricky, searching for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover – Pascal. The film shows a battle of love, lust, reality, memory and illusions and the grief everybody bears every day.

This touching story tackles issues that affect the transgendered community. Love Life 2, New Zealand AIDS Foundation’s second fono (conference) was created to empower, educate and inspire transgendered people from the Pacific/New Zealand region.

In a depraved and forgotten pocket of Philadelphia, a ruby-lipped beauty is brutally strangled. But this is just another stiff in a city so deep in dirty deals and sordid crimes. It's up to gutsy dame detective Charlie Forest to unearth the ugly truth.

Trinidad uncovers Trinidad, Colorado’s transformation from Wild West outpost to “sex-change capital of the world,” and follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the“transsexual mecca.”

A teenager’s routine visit to her father’s vacation home turns steamy when she finds herself unexpectedly attracted to her father’s fiancée.

Classmates Steve and George are part of a frightening food-chain; a deadly secret hidden deep within idyllic suburbia. For Steve, high school is a game. Seducing his classmates gives him his sense of purpose and fuels his art and poetry. When Steve sets his sights on the school star athlete, he starts a cat and mouse chase, which could ruin him and his idol. George, the school recluse, copes with the stress of his mother's cancer and strained relationship with his father by cutting class and using drugs. Hooking up with a stranger in an effort to lose himself, George finds himself in a life or death situation. At odds with each other, George and Steve have more in common than they realize. As their paths spiral downward, they could save each other -- or continue on their way to self-destruction. Based on the novel Closer and poems by Dennis Cooper, Weak Species, my thesis film, explores youth, alienation, rites of passage and calculated risk.

A famous Bollywood actress, Kiran, meets a lesbian journalist, Karen - 3 days before the release of her international film - 'A Himalayan Love Story'.

Lovers Danilo and Marcos commit to moving in together. But after a family tragedy leaves Danilo as the guardian of his little brother, things get turned upside down.. Can the three of them become a family or will responsibility force Danilo and Marcos apart?