Lumpia With A Vengeance Wins Hawaii Film Festival Audience Award

The 40th Hawaii Film Festival has announced the HIFF Audience Award Winners for this year’s festival.

Directed by Patricio Ginelsa, Lumpia With a Vengeance wins the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.

The Filipino American action-comedy film follows a superhero who fights with a surprising weapon, a delicious, fried-to-golden lumpia. The film stars former UFC fighter Mark Muñoz, April Absynth, Darion Basco and Danny Trejo. Lumpia With a Vengeance is a reboot of the 2003 Fil-Am indie-favorite, Lumpia.

Other HIFF Audience Award winners include:

HIFF Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: Wagon, Directed by Aniston Eyre

HIFF Audience Award for Best Short Film: Hawaiian Soul, Directed by ‘Āina Paikai