Last week, I went to New. York to get my instrument repaired &…[more]
It’s #Octobersatz25 and this month we’re excited to have Ersatz films on streaming and physical media as well as in…[more]
When I was living in Philadelphia, I wrote this song for my niece, Maia, when she was born - knowing that I was going to try to chase my filmmaking career in California and that I’d be spending lots of time away from her.
Today, she turns 21 years old and I want to share this song from way back then. I feel like my songwriting AND my singing voice have improved but hey, this is a…[more]
(note: This post is long, but it’s mostly pics. Scroll to the end for a special sing-along video!)
The Fruit Fly Sing-Along Tour is over and the whole experience has been joyous, nostalgic, melancholy and galvanizing. Traveling from town-to-town with this time capsule of a low-budget film made it so I was constantly in conversation with crowds of people who had experienced loss and witnessed change since the last time they’d seen the film. The general sentiment during the Fruit Fly Sing-Along Tour was…[more]
During this tour, multiple people (from either the audience or the cast!) have told me that each song hits different in 2025. On July 23, join me, Joshua Grannell (aka Peaches Christ), L.A. Renigen, Aaron Zaragoza and Christian Cagigal for the SING-ALONG FRUIT FLY at The Roxie! Lyrics will be…[more]
We didn’t even know we were eligible! The Daydream Believers was a project, a curation that I carefully chose and mapped to mimic the beats of a narrative feature film, complete with thematic callbacks a finale and a poignant button. And a finale LOL. But still, I was aiming to emulate the “feel” of a feature film; I didn’t realize the jury saw The Daydream Believers as an actual…[more]
THE DAYDREAM BELIEVERS
Six Filipino-American directors. One American Dream. Welcome to the diaspora.
I’ve been watching a lot, a LOT of short films made by and starring Filipino-Americans over the past year and I’m proud to present a shorts program that I curated to feel like a feature film. It’s called The Daydream Believers and it’s screening at…[more]
Click in below to see my Instagram post about the event. It was a riot. I performed Tom Robinson’s “Glad to be Gay” because it’s the song I performed in the Castro when DOMA was struck down in 2013 - that’s when I got married to Mark Del Lima, who I’d been with for 7 years already at that point.
And with the kind of coding applied to the defunding of organizations around us…[more]
Are we going to let all of our beloved arts institutions disappear? NO!!! Put your queer money where your queer mouth is and rock out at this punked out fundraiser for the @thechancenter where I’ll be performing with a group of queer punk drag legends assembled by Peaches Christ and Edwin Outwater! May 22 at 8pm. Come shout with…[more]
I intended to throw myself a Mission Arcade birthday party, or at least do a 15-minute Online Birthday Party like I did last year, but this year …[more]
Because of the uncommonly long festival run we had for I Am a Ghost, people have been confused about when the official anniversary is. The film was shot in 2011, did the United States festival run in 2012, then the European run in 2013. It was released theatrically in 2014 and then on home video in 2015.
Well, now that Level 33 Entertainment is our new distributor, I Am a Ghost is receiving the deluxe Blu-Ray treatment with a new…[more]
Fruit Fly - the very first film I ever directed - has moved to Level 33 Entertainment, the distributor who currently has my most recent film The Secret Art of Human Flight! This is the first time the film has been on HD physical media AND it’s the first time the proper 5.1 soundtrack is being presented. (The previous tracks were mishandled during the ingestion process somewhere, and I’ll tell you what…[more]
Hey everybody, it’s H.P. again.
Usually, we do a sing-along after a singer dies (“Hey, let’s do Bowie!” / “Hey, let’s do Leonard Cohen!”) but this is the first time people have asked to do a specific song of mine: “Animated TV Show” (which you can hear/see at this link: https://www.hpmendoza.com/atvs ) In case you haven’t seen our previous videos, here’s a few seconds of each…[more]
