Lahaina film “My Partner” Wins Awards, Screens Across Hawaiʻi and Globe
“My Partner” movie poster- Jayron Munoz as Edmar, Alakaʻi Lastimado as Uncle Jack (KSG Films)
- Jayron Munoz, Kaipo Dudoit, Bryant de Venecia, Kaleo Pinto, Dan Francis Rodriguez in the boys’ love drama “My Partner,” which was shot in Hawai’i. (KSG Films) PC: My Partner
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“My Partner” Hawaiʻi’s first Boys’ Love drama, won the Grand Jury Award at the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival recently. It previously won the Audience Award at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Outstanding Excellence Award at the LGBTQ-Unbordered International Film Festival.
Directed by Native Hawaiian visual storyteller Keliʻi Grace and written by Maui’s Lance D. Collins, the film follows the story of two Lahainaluna High School senior boys whose separate worlds collide in a journey of self-awakening.
The film focuses on the lives of Edmar, a high achieving Filipino student, and Pili, a Native Hawaiian student athlete stand-out, as their seemingly separate worlds enter into a collision course when they are assigned to work on a class project together despite coming from rival friend groups.
“My Partner” was shot in Lahaina and is believed to be the last production to showcase Lahaina before the destructive Aug. 8, 2023 fire.
“My Partner” will be screening around the world including Hawaiʻi over the next month:
- Oct. 6 at 7:45 p.m. San Diego Filipino Film Festival:
https://sdfff.org/2023/movies/my-partner/ - Oct. 8 at 9 a.m. Mpumalanga International Film Festival (South Africa)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mpumalanga-international-film-festival-tickets-600698895567 - Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. San Antonio QFest-LGBT International Film Festival
https://pridesanantonio.org/sa-qfest-film-festival - Oct. 14 at 9:30 p.m. IndiFest: Indigenous Film Festival of Barcelona
https://indifest.org/es/sessio/my-partner-98-min-2/ - Oct. 20 at 4 p.m., Twin Cities Film Festival (Minneapolis)
https://twincitiesfilmfest.org/film-fest-movie/my-partner - Oct. 29, Hālāwai Film Festival (New York City)
http://www.halawai.org/hff.html - Hawaiʻi International Film Festival
https://hiff.org/events/mypartner/
Local Hawaiʻi screenings:
- Oct. 16 at 5:45 p.m. Kahala Theaters (Honolulu)
- Oct. 24 3 p.m. at UH Manoa, Hawai’i Fil-Am Film Fest 2023
- Oct. 26 at 7 p.m., Waimea Theater (Kauaʻi)
- Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m., Maui Arts and Cultural Center
- Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m., Hale Keaka Theater (Lānaʻi)
- Nov. 2 at 7 p.m., Palace Theater (Hilo)
The My Partner trailer has had over 2.7 Million views on Facebook since April.
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