(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]
LOS ANGELES! The Fruit Fly Sing-Along Tour is coming to Vidiots on Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27. I’ll be there with…[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]
It’s done. ❤️
(See the original post, here…[more]
Crazy! It’s been 20 years since my first album, Everything is Pop, was first uploaded to MySpace and subsequently released on CD! To commemorate its release…[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]
So, October…that was a lot. But I’m better at conveying my feelings and thanks in this…[more]
Ok, this is nuts. Our last in-person sing-along, Nomad, was in April of 2019 at the Roxie theater before I moved to Tokyo and the pandemic hit which resulted in all those virtual sing-alongs. It’s time for another...[more]
For the month of October, the San Francisco Public Library is doing a FREE series focusing on my the music in my films AND I’ll be doing a free LIVE show called “Singing in the Stacks” on October 19th where I lead a sing-along for various songs from films and albums I’ve released over the past 20 years, I hope you can...[more]
Today, our distributor put out the final trailer for the digital release of The Secret Art of Human Flight, and I’ll post it at the end of this piece. I’m thankful to everyone for supporting me during what is always the most important time for me: The release of another movie. Other folks have children; I have these films. It’s what I do. It’s all I want to talk about. It’s my passion, my insecurity and my pride. Even though it’s the first film I directed that I didn’t write, I...[more]
The day we’ve been waiting for is finally here. On July 4th weekend, our film The Secret Art of Human Flight opens in theaters. Check out our motion…[more]
