| Fruit Fly | |
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| Directed by | H.P. Mendoza |
| Written by | H.P. Mendoza |
| Starring | H.P. Mendoza L.A. Renigen Mike Curtis Theresa Navarro Aaron Zaragoza E.S. Park Christian Cagigal Don Wood Michelle Talgarow |
| Music by | H.P. Mendoza |
| Release date(s) | March 15, 2009 (SFIAAFF) August 11, 2010 (United States) |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Fruit Fly is a 2009 musical film with gay and Asian-American 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 one-week run in New York on September 24, 2010.[1]
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Fruit Fly is a musical comedy about Bethesda, a Filipina performance artist finding home in the unlikeliest places. She moves into an artist commune in an attempt to workshop her latest piece which deals with finding her biological parents. In the process, she finds an artistic family, clues of her mother’s whereabouts, and the startling possibility that she just might be a fag-hag.
Subplots include her relationship with her roommates in the artist commune, and their relationships with each other.