[1] Fruit Fly is a musical comedy about Bethesda, a Filipina performance artist finding home in the unlikeliest places.

She moves into an artist commune in an attempt to workshop her latest piece which deals with finding her biological mother.

In the process, she finds an artistic family, clues of her mother's whereabouts, and the startling possibility that she just might be a fag-hag.

The musical film, called "irresistible"[2] by the San Francisco Chronicle was funded by the Center for Asian American Media and was awarded the Best Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

In 2019, Fruit Fly was listed in the Los Angeles Times as one of the 100 films in "The Asian American Canon"[3] and was celebrated for its 10th anniversary at the 2020 CAAMFest.