The Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival (HRFF) is an LGBT film festival held annually in Honolulu which began in 1989 as the Adam Baran Honolulu Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.[1][2]
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Businessman Jack Law founded the non-profit Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation (HGLCF) in 1997 as an umbrella organization for the Adam Baran Honolulu Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, now known as the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival (HRFF).[3][4]
Prior to establishment of the non-profit, the film festival (started in 1989), originally donated proceeds of the festival to the Life Foundation, the state's main AIDS/HIV organization. Today, the HGLCF is a self-supporting non-profit 501(c)3.
Films programmed at the HRFF have gone on to win Peabody and Emmy Awards, such as the documentary, Daddy & Papa. HRFF has worked with PBS Hawaiʻi to program LGBT content documentaries. In 2008, a pilot Neighbor Island Outreach in Hilo on the Big Island began.
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References edit
- ^ Chang, Melissa (August 14, 2016). "Party pics: Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival red carpet gala". Honolulu. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- ^ Jones, Jay (August 3, 2017). "What's it like to grow up as a black, gay kid in Texas? Hawaii's Rainbow Festival films explores these questions and more". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- ^ Berger, John (June 9, 2015). "Stars open Rainbow Film Festival". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- ^ Ako, Diane (August 18, 2018). "The 29th Annual Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival closes with red carpet gala". KITV. Archived from the original on August 6, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
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