Updated at 2:47 p.m., Saturday, October 20, 2007
HIFF's sold-out 'All for Melissa' shot by local filmmaker
Advertiser Staff
"All for Melissa," the first full-length feature by local filmmaker Gerard Elmore, screens at the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival at 9:45 p.m. tonight at Regal Dole Cinemas.Elmore has made a splash locally with his string of short films such as "The Making of the Karaoke Video" and "Barry." Now he unleashes his first feature, which he has been mapping out for the past two years. Shot by Academy for Creative Media instructor Anne Misawa on O'ahu, "Melissa" follows Jared Rogers, a 22-year-old dreamer stuck in a go-nowhere office job and obsessed with an actress named Melissa Williams. Unrequited love, menehunes and aspiring filmmakers figure in the film, which stars Milan Tresnak, Jane Benney, Andy Bumatai, Kimberly Estrada and Maxwell Smart.
Tickets are sold out, but there's still the rush line (and usually most people in the rush line make it in — although Elmore has a lot of acquaintances).
