The Independent Filmmakers' Cooperative of the Philippines and Robinsons Galleria Movieworld - Ortigas brings back the landmark movies "Duda/doubt"(2002) and "Bathhouse" (2003), the first and second independent full length digital video movies to be shown in local commercial cinema venues in their original video format.
IFC presents "Con-queer-ing INDIE SINE: The Queer Cinema of Cris Pablo" which is a double feature screening of Duda and Bathhouse on March 28, 29, 30, 31, April 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10.
And to add sizzle to your summer movie visits, Grupong Sinehan presents 15 MINUTE LIVE FRONT ACTS IN THE EVENING:
MORENO (movie) BOYS VARIETY SHOW 7pm
MR. VALENTINO FINALISTS PRESENTATION 9PM
Duda stars Andoy Ranay, John Lapus, Rey Pumaloy, Paolo Gabriel, Jojo Nones, Bel Clerigo.
Bathhouse stars Jet Alcantara, Ray-an Dulay, Andoy Ranay, John Lapus, Rey Pumaloy.
Contact 4369348 or 09273613814.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
EXILED screenings
Set in Macau, a gangster turns his back on his syndicate with high hopes of starting a new life for his wife and children. But a pair of hit men from the syndicate arrive to execute him and prevent him from sharing anything he learned while in their employ. Two strong-arm men also arrive, determined to save him and his family.
Directed by Johnnie To nominee for BEST director in the 1ST ever Asian Film Awards for his work in EXILED.
Catch EXILED, nominee for BEST FILM in the 1st Asian Film Awards EXCLUSIVELY at the SHANG CINEPLEX, Shangri-La Plaza from March 28 to April 4, 2007. Don't miss it!!! MTRCB Rated R-18, Tickets at P120.00
Directed by Johnnie To nominee for BEST director in the 1ST ever Asian Film Awards for his work in EXILED.
Catch EXILED, nominee for BEST FILM in the 1st Asian Film Awards EXCLUSIVELY at the SHANG CINEPLEX, Shangri-La Plaza from March 28 to April 4, 2007. Don't miss it!!! MTRCB Rated R-18, Tickets at P120.00
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO screenings
Cinemalaya 2006 film ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO opens March 28 in SM Digital Cinema nationwide. Starring Johnny Delgado, Jennifer Sevilla, Baron Geisler, Monica Llamas, Arnold Reyes, Angeli Bayani and Ms. Boots Anson-Roa. Written and directed by Nick Olanka.
Synopsis
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO spans a week in a life of seven individuals with interconnected narratives. Domeng is involved in networking or multi-level marketing business and plans to encourage his estranged daughter Luna to join in this unscrupulous business. Luna is abandoned by her husband and son so she asks help from her mother Aling Tess. Aling Tess is a land lady who lives alone and fancies a young male boarder named Kulas. Kulas is a grocery store employee who aspires to become a store manager to impress Julie. Julie is a laundry shop attendant who is obsessed with a male costumer named Brian. Brian is a nurse in a local hospital who wants to work abroad so he persuades his girlfriend Sally to provide for his "fixer" fees. An accounting graduate who failed to pass the board exam for two consecutive years, Sally enters Domeng's networking business in the hopes of proving her worth. When she found out that networking is a scam Sally plans to take revenge on Domeng. The film illustrates the interconnectedness of our lives, a cycle of random events in which the decisions we make are as important as the choices we didn't take.
About the Director
Nick Joseph Olanka graduated from the U.P. Film Institute last April 2006. Active in the theater arts through the group The UP Repertory Company, he took cinematography classes in Mowelfund Film Institute under Ms. Lee Meily."Monday of Sorrow," (Lunes ng Hapis) his graduation film, won several international and local awards. It won 2005 Kodak Filmschool Competiton Philippines and was the Philippine entry for 2005 Kodak Filmschool Competition Asia-Pacific. It also received top prizes in the 18th CCP Independent Film and Video Competition, was shown in Slingshort Film Festival in Jakarta and is currently competing in CON-CAN Movie Festival, an online film festival based in Japan.
Synopsis
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO spans a week in a life of seven individuals with interconnected narratives. Domeng is involved in networking or multi-level marketing business and plans to encourage his estranged daughter Luna to join in this unscrupulous business. Luna is abandoned by her husband and son so she asks help from her mother Aling Tess. Aling Tess is a land lady who lives alone and fancies a young male boarder named Kulas. Kulas is a grocery store employee who aspires to become a store manager to impress Julie. Julie is a laundry shop attendant who is obsessed with a male costumer named Brian. Brian is a nurse in a local hospital who wants to work abroad so he persuades his girlfriend Sally to provide for his "fixer" fees. An accounting graduate who failed to pass the board exam for two consecutive years, Sally enters Domeng's networking business in the hopes of proving her worth. When she found out that networking is a scam Sally plans to take revenge on Domeng. The film illustrates the interconnectedness of our lives, a cycle of random events in which the decisions we make are as important as the choices we didn't take.
About the Director
Nick Joseph Olanka graduated from the U.P. Film Institute last April 2006. Active in the theater arts through the group The UP Repertory Company, he took cinematography classes in Mowelfund Film Institute under Ms. Lee Meily."Monday of Sorrow," (Lunes ng Hapis) his graduation film, won several international and local awards. It won 2005 Kodak Filmschool Competiton Philippines and was the Philippine entry for 2005 Kodak Filmschool Competition Asia-Pacific. It also received top prizes in the 18th CCP Independent Film and Video Competition, was shown in Slingshort Film Festival in Jakarta and is currently competing in CON-CAN Movie Festival, an online film festival based in Japan.
Francophonie Film Festival
af Ciné Club presents
The "Francophonie" Film Festival
(as part as the "Francophonie Week", every Wednesday at 8:30 pm at Alliance Française Ondeo Auditorium)
Canada
March 28
La Grande Séduction
Switzerland
April 4
Du Rouge sur la croix
Egypt
April 11
Le destin
Africa
April 18
Moi & Mon Blanc
For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street ),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City . 1209 Philippines .
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm
The "Francophonie" Film Festival
(as part as the "Francophonie Week", every Wednesday at 8:30 pm at Alliance Française Ondeo Auditorium)
Canada
March 28
La Grande Séduction
Switzerland
April 4
Du Rouge sur la croix
Egypt
April 11
Le destin
Africa
April 18
Moi & Mon Blanc
For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street ),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City . 1209 Philippines .
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm
Alliance Française de Manille screening
La Grande Séduction
(Seducing Dr. Lewis)
a film by Jean-François Pouliot(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 1 h 49 minutes
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 8:30 pm
(Free Admission)
(Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening)
Starring:
Raymond Bouchard (Germain Lesage), David Boutin (Christopher Lewis), Benoît Brière (Henri Giroux), Pierre Collin (Yvon Brunet), Lucie Laurier (Ève Beauchemin), Bruno Blanchet (Steve Laurin), and more…
Genre: Comedy / (more)
Awards:
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: WINNER - WORLD CINEMA AUDIENCE AWARD
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL: SPECIAL PRESENTATION
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: CLOSING FILM - DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT
Synopsis:
Seducing Doctor Lewis is a beguiling story of a ragtag fishing community on a tiny, impoverished island who must persuade a young Montreal-based doctor (David Boutin) to live in their town in order to get a much-needed new factory. This film is a charming and funny tale, as well as a wry meditation on truth and falsehood.
For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street ),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City . 1209 Philippines .
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm
(Seducing Dr. Lewis)
a film by Jean-François Pouliot(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 1 h 49 minutes
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 8:30 pm
(Free Admission)
(Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening)
Starring:
Raymond Bouchard (Germain Lesage), David Boutin (Christopher Lewis), Benoît Brière (Henri Giroux), Pierre Collin (Yvon Brunet), Lucie Laurier (Ève Beauchemin), Bruno Blanchet (Steve Laurin), and more…
Genre: Comedy / (more)
Awards:
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: WINNER - WORLD CINEMA AUDIENCE AWARD
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL: SPECIAL PRESENTATION
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: CLOSING FILM - DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT
Synopsis:
Seducing Doctor Lewis is a beguiling story of a ragtag fishing community on a tiny, impoverished island who must persuade a young Montreal-based doctor (David Boutin) to live in their town in order to get a much-needed new factory. This film is a charming and funny tale, as well as a wry meditation on truth and falsehood.
For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street ),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City . 1209 Philippines .
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm
Monday, March 26, 2007
CineKatipunan screenings
THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN
March 26- 31, 2007
Mervin Espina opens the week with the South East Asian
program, featuring six short works by Malaysian
independent filmmaker and writer Amir Muhammed. Sine
Patriyotiko presents their winning entry to last
year's Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula
[Documentary Video] awards, Mula Third Avenue Hanggang
Dulo.
Wednesday's treat is a back-to-back screening of short
works by young acclaimed filmmakers Raya Martin and
John Torres, followed by a screening of compelling
television documentaries on the insurgency and counter
insurgency war to be presented by Southern Tagalog
Exposure on Thursday. Friday the 30th is Elvert de la
Cruz Banares' day, with eXtermination2, a marathon of
his short works.
Mag:net caps the month of March on Saturday with an
arsenal of short experimental works by campus-based
filmmakers from KALAYAAN College and the College of
St. Benilde (curated by Jay Ticar and Elvert Banares).
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
While the film screenings are free, viewers are
encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or
comments aboutCinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com.
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly
holding of Live Performances by well-known and
emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located
along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in
Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191 or
visit www.magnet.com.ph.
26-31 MARCH PROGRAM
March 26 (Monday)
Malaysian Mondays: East Asian and South East Asian
Program (Curated by Mervin Espina)
Amir Muhammad's
6shorts (+ 1)
LOST (2002, 9.5 min) | FRIDAY (2002, 8 min) | MONA
(2002, 6.5 min) | CHECKPOINT (2002, 7 min) | KAMUNTING
(2002, 15 min) | PANGYAU (2002, 12.5 min)
+ 18MP (2006, 14 min)
March 27 (Tuesday)
Sine Patriyotiko: MULA THIRD AVENUE HANGGANG DULO
A documentary on the lives of three members of a youth
gang, their angst and conflicts, their wars and
struggles, their damnation and eventual freedom. 1st
Place. Documentary Video Category, Gawad CCP Para Sa
Alternatibong Pelikula 2006
SIPAT [Sine Patriyotiko] is a non-profit media group
that organizes the production, distribution and
exhibition of independent audio-visual presentations.
"Sipat," a Filipino term, means to look while aiming a
target. www.sipat.tk
March 28 (Wednesday)
Raya Martin and John Torres: SHORT FILMS
Shorts by Raya Martin:
BAKASYON [2004, 16mm, 12 mins]
A young girl from the city is left to the care of her
grandmother in the province. During her stay, the girl
learns about her grandmother's mysterious identity.
LIFE PROJECTIONS [2006, DV, 4 mins]
"A video wants to be a film, as the world's second
biggest oil spill just happened in the heart of the
filmmaker…A large group of Filipino film makers
responded with a short film to a disastrous oil spill
in their island nation. This talented film maker
instinctively avoided a political pamphlet and went
straight for the emotional core of the matter. He
found that core in his heart, as he writes himself."
-Gertjan Zuillhof, International Film Festival
Rotterdam
LONG LIVE PHILIPPINE CINEMA! [2007, 16mm, 6 mins]
Mother Lily is a Filipino Chinese producer who
monopolizes the local film industry. And the only way
to keep Philippine Cinema alive is to kill her. "Yes,
a cinema to be proud of, yet the cheer is full of
irony. The history of Filipino film isn't treated with
so much respect…. A burlesque, harsh satire about the
mistress of Philippine film production, the
Chinese-Filipino producer Mother Lily. She is hated
and feared, but nobody can get round her. Fortunately
this young film maker has thought up an adequate
solution to keep Philippine cinema alive. Mother Lily
is not a metaphorical invention. She really exists -
for now." -Gertjan Zuillhof, International Film
Festival Rotterdam
Shorts by John Torres:
TAWIDGUTOM is an experimental love poem/monologue
composed of images that recur and repeat themselves.
The narrator reminisces on a relationship and
anticipates meeting his love again, both with
trepidation and excitement. SALAT is composed of
several vignettes that are like snap-shots of urban
life, juxtaposed once again with images of love,
friendship and everyday life. In THE LAST SHERBET,
street kids savour ice cream. LUNAR PLAY is a short
elegy for Portuguese footballer Miklos Feher
(1979-2004), while ELLIPSIS, KULOB, AND LUNAR PUNCH is
a triptych in which the narrator muses on hope and the
persistence of the spirit to want to carry on, against
the background of a relationship that has quietly
ended. KUNAP PAAANO KITA LILIGAWAN NANG DI KUMAKAPIT
SA IYO? is an experimental film composed of rapid
cuts, digitised images,snippets of urban and rural
landscapes that are placed against a running poem,
often premised by the film's title - how can I court
you without ever holding you? -- but this rhetorical
question is addressed as much to a lover unseen as it
is to inanimate objects and to the world around the
poet/narrator.
Also by John Torres:
Gabi Noong Sinabi ng Ama Ko (Night When Father Told
Me)
Father writes his confession. Son goes away and
buries his hero. He plays the flute for a
funeral/dance of beating drums, meets Chance and
achieves a rebirth of meaning and purpose. Son: "I
cannot put into words how much contempt and love I
feel for you right now."
March 29 (Thursday)
Southern Tagalog Exposure: PULANG SINE Program
March 30 (Friday)
eXtermination2 : Four Films by ELVERT de la Cruz
BAÑARES
• Ang Bayan Kong Payapa (4 min)
This is the state of the nation cycle. (Originally, a
2-channel video installation for an exhibit, the work
was re-edited for usual screening pleasures.)
• astrangiam
(7min) Mind over matter. Perception over fact. Life
over death. Shot in Casio Exilim EX-53 still camera,
'astrangiam' meditates on the relationships and
parallelisms of time, spontaneity, assumptions, dreams
and elements of nature.
• Gemini (8 min)
A diptych film - visual experimentation of 16mm found
footages, scratching, etching and punching holes on
the actual film - with each color of the film strips
soaked in different concoctions and buried in sand.
• Plema [Phlegm] (22 min)
Motivated by emotional turmoils and day-job related
exhaustion, the filmmaker creates this video letter to
his VIDPREP (Video Experimentation) class with hopes
to help exorcise personal demons. Recording on used
tapes and utilizing current illness, this
semi-autobiographical video metaphorically structures
a visual collage of the filmmaker's wants, desires and
lamentations, strongly hinting of his retreat (or is
it escape?) from urban chaos and his complete
submission to creative freedom.
Plus
• Sukdulan Ng Pagrahuyo sa Dambana ng Sirenang Walang
Ulo
[The Zenith of Seduction at the Altar of the Headless
Mermaind] (12 min)
Poetry on video tackling themes of innocence, vices
and self-destruction. Shot in 1993 and re-constructed
in 2006. [Philippine Premiere]
Elvert de la Cruz Bañares is a filmmaker, curator,
educator and multi-media artist. His films have been
screened in underground film festivals in the United
States, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Japan. He
curated first time Filipino programs for the
'Queerfest: Vancouver Gay & Lesbian Film Festival' and
the 'Antimatter Underground Film & Video Festival' in
Victoria, Canada. He has, by far, written, produced
and directed 43 shorts (he calls them his "little
low-budget films"). "Gemini" is the only Filipino Film
in Official Selection at the Antimatter Underground
Film Festival 2004 in Canada and was presented as an
installation at the Daejon Museum of Art in South
Korea in 2005. Twice he was sent as Philippine
Delegate to Filipino film festivals in China
(Beijing'05 and Shanghai'06). He is currently
finishing his two full-length films, 'Alipo-op Sa
Animo' (Fog In The Consciousness) and 'The Atomika
Settlement: Devastation Canvas # 5'. He is the
festival director of eKsperim[E]nto Festival of Film,
Video & New Media and the 2006 ASEAN Film Festival (at
The Podium).
March 31 (Saturday)
CAMPUS BASED FILMMAKERS: Works from the KALAYAAN
College Fine Arts Majors
and Multi Media Arts Department of the College of
Saint Benilde
Selected by Jay Ticar and Elvert Banares
Students from the Fine Arts Department of KALAYAAN
College present expressions on video. Shorn of
narrative, the works are visual plays and experiments
on form. CELINE ROQUE compares and contrasts visuals
on sex and religion on digital (experimental, 2007).
JAN LUDWIG GO presents INOM, a short experimental work
about the life of a student of the artist/filmmaker,
beginning when the subject decides to consume seven
bottles of beer ( 8 mins, digital, 2006). GABRIEL
ALDECOA, PAOLO MARTINEZ, and AYA CADIZ will also
present more experimental works.
About KALAYAAN College's Bachelor of Fine Arts
program: The Department is guided by the philosophy
that every person can be nurtured to become an artist.
Although some may have special abilities concerning
art at a very early age, this does not mean that the
practice of art is limited to a few gifted
individuals. Through personal discipline, industry and
excellent training, the beginning student of fine arts
can be developed to become professional artists who
are at the same time responsive to the needs of their
communities.
The College of St. Benilde MultiMedia Arts Department
[Second Batch] presents the works ADAN by Gian Mawo,
SIPHAYO NG PINAKAMAGANDANG PANAGINIP by Rastle Lozano,
KULIGLIG by Jericho Añonuevo, KOSA by Karen Abarca,
DIWATA by Katz Delfin, WHISPERS by JM Qsuiblat, SILA
by Annie Beldia, and NGITI by Love Nakagawa.
About the CSB Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Arts
(AB-MMA) program: This degree program is the first of
its kind in the country, it combines evolving areas
such as digital media and the Internet with core
skills such as communications, programming, and
graphic design. You harness the power of the latest
digital media technology. It is also recommended for
those who are interested in broadcasting, journalism,
communication arts, new media design and
communications, and other fields using digital
technologies.
March 26- 31, 2007
Mervin Espina opens the week with the South East Asian
program, featuring six short works by Malaysian
independent filmmaker and writer Amir Muhammed. Sine
Patriyotiko presents their winning entry to last
year's Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula
[Documentary Video] awards, Mula Third Avenue Hanggang
Dulo.
Wednesday's treat is a back-to-back screening of short
works by young acclaimed filmmakers Raya Martin and
John Torres, followed by a screening of compelling
television documentaries on the insurgency and counter
insurgency war to be presented by Southern Tagalog
Exposure on Thursday. Friday the 30th is Elvert de la
Cruz Banares' day, with eXtermination2, a marathon of
his short works.
Mag:net caps the month of March on Saturday with an
arsenal of short experimental works by campus-based
filmmakers from KALAYAAN College and the College of
St. Benilde (curated by Jay Ticar and Elvert Banares).
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
While the film screenings are free, viewers are
encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or
comments aboutCinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly
holding of Live Performances by well-known and
emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located
along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in
Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191 or
visit www.magnet.com
26-31 MARCH PROGRAM
March 26 (Monday)
Malaysian Mondays: East Asian and South East Asian
Program (Curated by Mervin Espina)
Amir Muhammad's
6shorts (+ 1)
LOST (2002, 9.5 min) | FRIDAY (2002, 8 min) | MONA
(2002, 6.5 min) | CHECKPOINT (2002, 7 min) | KAMUNTING
(2002, 15 min) | PANGYAU (2002, 12.5 min)
+ 18MP (2006, 14 min)
March 27 (Tuesday)
Sine Patriyotiko: MULA THIRD AVENUE HANGGANG DULO
A documentary on the lives of three members of a youth
gang, their angst and conflicts, their wars and
struggles, their damnation and eventual freedom. 1st
Place. Documentary Video Category, Gawad CCP Para Sa
Alternatibong Pelikula 2006
SIPAT [Sine Patriyotiko] is a non-profit media group
that organizes the production, distribution and
exhibition of independent audio-visual presentations.
"Sipat," a Filipino term, means to look while aiming a
target. www.sipat.tk
March 28 (Wednesday)
Raya Martin and John Torres: SHORT FILMS
Shorts by Raya Martin:
BAKASYON [2004, 16mm, 12 mins]
A young girl from the city is left to the care of her
grandmother in the province. During her stay, the girl
learns about her grandmother's mysterious identity.
LIFE PROJECTIONS [2006, DV, 4 mins]
"A video wants to be a film, as the world's second
biggest oil spill just happened in the heart of the
filmmaker…A large group of Filipino film makers
responded with a short film to a disastrous oil spill
in their island nation. This talented film maker
instinctively avoided a political pamphlet and went
straight for the emotional core of the matter. He
found that core in his heart, as he writes himself."
-Gertjan Zuillhof, International Film Festival
Rotterdam
LONG LIVE PHILIPPINE CINEMA! [2007, 16mm, 6 mins]
Mother Lily is a Filipino Chinese producer who
monopolizes the local film industry. And the only way
to keep Philippine Cinema alive is to kill her. "Yes,
a cinema to be proud of, yet the cheer is full of
irony. The history of Filipino film isn't treated with
so much respect…. A burlesque, harsh satire about the
mistress of Philippine film production, the
Chinese-Filipino producer Mother Lily. She is hated
and feared, but nobody can get round her. Fortunately
this young film maker has thought up an adequate
solution to keep Philippine cinema alive. Mother Lily
is not a metaphorical invention. She really exists -
for now." -Gertjan Zuillhof, International Film
Festival Rotterdam
Shorts by John Torres:
TAWIDGUTOM is an experimental love poem/monologue
composed of images that recur and repeat themselves.
The narrator reminisces on a relationship and
anticipates meeting his love again, both with
trepidation and excitement. SALAT is composed of
several vignettes that are like snap-shots of urban
life, juxtaposed once again with images of love,
friendship and everyday life. In THE LAST SHERBET,
street kids savour ice cream. LUNAR PLAY is a short
elegy for Portuguese footballer Miklos Feher
(1979-2004), while ELLIPSIS, KULOB, AND LUNAR PUNCH is
a triptych in which the narrator muses on hope and the
persistence of the spirit to want to carry on, against
the background of a relationship that has quietly
ended. KUNAP PAAANO KITA LILIGAWAN NANG DI KUMAKAPIT
SA IYO? is an experimental film composed of rapid
cuts, digitised images,snippets of urban and rural
landscapes that are placed against a running poem,
often premised by the film's title - how can I court
you without ever holding you? -- but this rhetorical
question is addressed as much to a lover unseen as it
is to inanimate objects and to the world around the
poet/narrator.
Also by John Torres:
Gabi Noong Sinabi ng Ama Ko (Night When Father Told
Me)
Father writes his confession. Son goes away and
buries his hero. He plays the flute for a
funeral/dance of beating drums, meets Chance and
achieves a rebirth of meaning and purpose. Son: "I
cannot put into words how much contempt and love I
feel for you right now."
March 29 (Thursday)
Southern Tagalog Exposure: PULANG SINE Program
March 30 (Friday)
eXtermination2 : Four Films by ELVERT de la Cruz
BAÑARES
• Ang Bayan Kong Payapa (4 min)
This is the state of the nation cycle. (Originally, a
2-channel video installation for an exhibit, the work
was re-edited for usual screening pleasures.)
• astrangiam
(7min) Mind over matter. Perception over fact. Life
over death. Shot in Casio Exilim EX-53 still camera,
'astrangiam' meditates on the relationships and
parallelisms of time, spontaneity, assumptions, dreams
and elements of nature.
• Gemini (8 min)
A diptych film - visual experimentation of 16mm found
footages, scratching, etching and punching holes on
the actual film - with each color of the film strips
soaked in different concoctions and buried in sand.
• Plema [Phlegm] (22 min)
Motivated by emotional turmoils and day-job related
exhaustion, the filmmaker creates this video letter to
his VIDPREP (Video Experimentation) class with hopes
to help exorcise personal demons. Recording on used
tapes and utilizing current illness, this
semi-autobiographical video metaphorically structures
a visual collage of the filmmaker's wants, desires and
lamentations, strongly hinting of his retreat (or is
it escape?) from urban chaos and his complete
submission to creative freedom.
Plus
• Sukdulan Ng Pagrahuyo sa Dambana ng Sirenang Walang
Ulo
[The Zenith of Seduction at the Altar of the Headless
Mermaind] (12 min)
Poetry on video tackling themes of innocence, vices
and self-destruction. Shot in 1993 and re-constructed
in 2006. [Philippine Premiere]
Elvert de la Cruz Bañares is a filmmaker, curator,
educator and multi-media artist. His films have been
screened in underground film festivals in the United
States, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Japan. He
curated first time Filipino programs for the
'Queerfest: Vancouver Gay & Lesbian Film Festival' and
the 'Antimatter Underground Film & Video Festival' in
Victoria, Canada. He has, by far, written, produced
and directed 43 shorts (he calls them his "little
low-budget films"). "Gemini" is the only Filipino Film
in Official Selection at the Antimatter Underground
Film Festival 2004 in Canada and was presented as an
installation at the Daejon Museum of Art in South
Korea in 2005. Twice he was sent as Philippine
Delegate to Filipino film festivals in China
(Beijing'05 and Shanghai'06). He is currently
finishing his two full-length films, 'Alipo-op Sa
Animo' (Fog In The Consciousness) and 'The Atomika
Settlement: Devastation Canvas # 5'. He is the
festival director of eKsperim[E]nto Festival of Film,
Video & New Media and the 2006 ASEAN Film Festival (at
The Podium).
March 31 (Saturday)
CAMPUS BASED FILMMAKERS: Works from the KALAYAAN
College Fine Arts Majors
and Multi Media Arts Department of the College of
Saint Benilde
Selected by Jay Ticar and Elvert Banares
Students from the Fine Arts Department of KALAYAAN
College present expressions on video. Shorn of
narrative, the works are visual plays and experiments
on form. CELINE ROQUE compares and contrasts visuals
on sex and religion on digital (experimental, 2007).
JAN LUDWIG GO presents INOM, a short experimental work
about the life of a student of the artist/filmmaker,
beginning when the subject decides to consume seven
bottles of beer ( 8 mins, digital, 2006). GABRIEL
ALDECOA, PAOLO MARTINEZ, and AYA CADIZ will also
present more experimental works.
About KALAYAAN College's Bachelor of Fine Arts
program: The Department is guided by the philosophy
that every person can be nurtured to become an artist.
Although some may have special abilities concerning
art at a very early age, this does not mean that the
practice of art is limited to a few gifted
individuals. Through personal discipline, industry and
excellent training, the beginning student of fine arts
can be developed to become professional artists who
are at the same time responsive to the needs of their
communities.
The College of St. Benilde MultiMedia Arts Department
[Second Batch] presents the works ADAN by Gian Mawo,
SIPHAYO NG PINAKAMAGANDANG PANAGINIP by Rastle Lozano,
KULIGLIG by Jericho Añonuevo, KOSA by Karen Abarca,
DIWATA by Katz Delfin, WHISPERS by JM Qsuiblat, SILA
by Annie Beldia, and NGITI by Love Nakagawa.
About the CSB Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Arts
(AB-MMA) program: This degree program is the first of
its kind in the country, it combines evolving areas
such as digital media and the Internet with core
skills such as communications, programming, and
graphic design. You harness the power of the latest
digital media technology. It is also recommended for
those who are interested in broadcasting, journalism,
communication arts, new media design and
communications, and other fields using digital
technologies.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Khavn dela Cruz gets Banned!
This is not a film by Khavn: Khavn dela Cruz gets Banned!
Banned Movies Pilipinas has once again proven itself as the home of indie artists when it served as the venue for the premiere of John Torres’ Gabi Noong Nalaman Kong Ang Aking Ama ay May Anak sa Labas last January 20 and Raya Martin’s Long Live Philippine Cinema! last February 17.
Come March 24, 2007, Banned Movies Pilipinas will chalk up another milestone when it premieres Khavn dela Cruz’ newest digital film, Literature based on Joel Toledo’s 2004 2nd prize winning Palanca for Poetry. A recent recipient of the Grand Jury Prize in the recently concluded Digital Lokal competition of Cinemanila, Khavn dela Cruz is an award winning filmmaker who has made 16 features and more than 60 short films. He is also one of the movers behind the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (IFC) and Filmless Films. Khavn is jack of all trades: a teacher, a Palanca winning writer, and a musician. Considered as indie cinema’s enfant terrible (Giovanni Spagnoletti, Festival Director, Pesaro Film Festival), he will also screen his other groundbreaking digital films namely, Institusyon ng Makata (which stars Marvin Agustin), Amen, and I’m Not Batman (with the Radioactive Sago Project).
Complementing the night’s out there theme are bands with an avant garde edge: Taggu nDios, Linch 12, Khavn’s own band, The Brockas and the most avant garde of them all, the Andy Warhol’s of rock n roll, Kiko Machine and many more.
So free up your schedule on March 24 and come down to Center for Arts in Timog, Quezon City at 7PM and experience what living on the edge feels like.
The event is made possible through ClicktheCity. com, Transit, Red Leaf Printing press, Anthem magazine and NU 107.
For inquiries email us at banned_movies@ yahoo.com or visit www.bannedmoviespil ipinas.com. You can also text 0917-9180575.
The Films
Institusyon ng Makata
Tony de Guzman, current resident at the Institute of Poets , is one pissed-off, walking timebomb. Short of fuse, this shrewd citizen of the Philippine ghetto sets his sights on foreign classmate Steve Banners, a pompous self-righteous dude with delusions of America 's grandeur at the expense of Third World inequity. It stars Marvin Agustin.
AMEN
"Amen" is a brown comedy, the Filipino version of the black comedy. It's a cultural satire on blind obedience, specifically on the Filipino tradition of "mano": placing the hand of an elder on one's forehead as a sign of superficial respect.
I’m not Batman
A Batman is in the house, but he's no crusading knight from Gotham. Rather than haunting rooftops, he prowls the Quezon City streets for his prey. With special appearance by the Radioactive Sago Project.
Literature
Based on Joel Toledo’s poem of the same title. This poem is part of the collection that won Second Prize for Poetry in the 2004 Palanca Awards
Banned Movies Pilipinas has once again proven itself as the home of indie artists when it served as the venue for the premiere of John Torres’ Gabi Noong Nalaman Kong Ang Aking Ama ay May Anak sa Labas last January 20 and Raya Martin’s Long Live Philippine Cinema! last February 17.
Come March 24, 2007, Banned Movies Pilipinas will chalk up another milestone when it premieres Khavn dela Cruz’ newest digital film, Literature based on Joel Toledo’s 2004 2nd prize winning Palanca for Poetry. A recent recipient of the Grand Jury Prize in the recently concluded Digital Lokal competition of Cinemanila, Khavn dela Cruz is an award winning filmmaker who has made 16 features and more than 60 short films. He is also one of the movers behind the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (IFC) and Filmless Films. Khavn is jack of all trades: a teacher, a Palanca winning writer, and a musician. Considered as indie cinema’s enfant terrible (Giovanni Spagnoletti, Festival Director, Pesaro Film Festival), he will also screen his other groundbreaking digital films namely, Institusyon ng Makata (which stars Marvin Agustin), Amen, and I’m Not Batman (with the Radioactive Sago Project).
Complementing the night’s out there theme are bands with an avant garde edge: Taggu nDios, Linch 12, Khavn’s own band, The Brockas and the most avant garde of them all, the Andy Warhol’s of rock n roll, Kiko Machine and many more.
So free up your schedule on March 24 and come down to Center for Arts in Timog, Quezon City at 7PM and experience what living on the edge feels like.
The event is made possible through ClicktheCity. com, Transit, Red Leaf Printing press, Anthem magazine and NU 107.
For inquiries email us at banned_movies@ yahoo.com or visit www.bannedmoviespil ipinas.com. You can also text 0917-9180575.
The Films
Institusyon ng Makata
Tony de Guzman, current resident at the Institute of Poets , is one pissed-off, walking timebomb. Short of fuse, this shrewd citizen of the Philippine ghetto sets his sights on foreign classmate Steve Banners, a pompous self-righteous dude with delusions of America 's grandeur at the expense of Third World inequity. It stars Marvin Agustin.
AMEN
"Amen" is a brown comedy, the Filipino version of the black comedy. It's a cultural satire on blind obedience, specifically on the Filipino tradition of "mano": placing the hand of an elder on one's forehead as a sign of superficial respect.
I’m not Batman
A Batman is in the house, but he's no crusading knight from Gotham. Rather than haunting rooftops, he prowls the Quezon City streets for his prey. With special appearance by the Radioactive Sago Project.
Literature
Based on Joel Toledo’s poem of the same title. This poem is part of the collection that won Second Prize for Poetry in the 2004 Palanca Awards
Screenings at Titus Brandsma
Pelikula@TitusBrandsma : Ina, Kapatid, Anak (Mother, Sister, Daughter)
24 Acacia St. Brgy. Mariana, New Manila, Quezon City
March 24, 2007, 1pm onwardsADMISSION IS FREE
Pelikula@Titus Brandsma is a free monthly film screening with film dialogue
in each line-up that features fine samples of world cinema. It's an offering
of the Titus Brandsma Center-Media Program under the auspices of the
Carmelites in the Philippines.
A film dialogue is a systematic, goal-oriented, personal ("inner") and group
dialogue on films and TV stories that facilitate the sharing of faith-life
experiences, reflections and interpretations of the varied meanings of life
towards integration and wholeness.
Sequence:
The Trip to Bountiful (1985-USA) - Peter Masterson
Cast: Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De
Mornay
108 mins
Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is
set in 1947 Houston. Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped
in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law
and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to
revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers
to as "home." The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health
to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae,
insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts
"escape" attempts each month which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. Watts'
Social Security check. With writing by Horton Foote ("To Kill a
Mockingbird," "Tender Mercies"), this is the touching story of Mrs. Watts
successful escape and last trip home.
Awards/Nominations:
1986 Oscar Awards - Winner, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Geraldine Page).
Nominated, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium;
1986 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Winner, Best Actress; 1986
Golden Globes, USA - Nominated, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture - Drama; 1986 Independent Spirit Awards - Winner, Best Female Lead,
Screenplay. Nominated, Best Director, Feature; 1988 Mainichi Film Concours
- Winner, Best Foreign Language Film; 1987 Retirement Research Foundation,
USA - Winner, Wise Owl Award Television and Theatrical Film Fiction; 1986
Writers Guild of America, USA - Nominated, Best Screenplay Based on Material
from Another Medium
Pauline & Paulette (Pauline et Paulette) (2001-Belgium/France/Netherlands)
- Lieven Debrauwe
Cast: Dora van der Groen, Ann Petersen, Rosemarie Bergmans, Julienne De
Bruyn, Idwig Stephane
78 mins. In Dutch with English subtitles.
Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is mentally retarded and
been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger
sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for
Pauline to be looked after. Neither of them is ready to take care of her.
Paulette has a shop to look after and Cecile has her Albert. But according
to Martha's last will, her fortune will only be divided in three equal parts
if one of the sisters looks after Pauline. If they decide to take her to an
institution, Pauline will be the only heir.
Awards/Nominations:
2001 AFI Fest - Nominated, Grand Jury Prize; 2001 Cairo International Film
Festival - Winner, Golden Pyramid; 2001 Cannes Film Festival - Winner,
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention; 2002 Flaiano Film Festival -
Winner, Best Actress (Ann Petersen), Costume Design; 2001 Gardanne Film
Festival -Winner, Audience Award; 2001 Joseph Plateau Awards - Winner, Box
Office Award, Best Belgian Actress (Dora van der Groen), Belgian Director,
Belgian Film, Belgian Screenplay. Nominated, Best Belgian Actress (Ann
Petersen); 2001
World Soundtrack Awards - Nominated, Best Original Score of the Year Not
Released on an Album
The Mirror (Ayneh) (1997-Iran) - Japar Panahi
Cast: Mina Mohammad Khani, Kazem Mojdehi, Naser Omuni
95 mins. In Arabic/Persian with English subtitles.
A girl in traditional female clothing, and her arm in plaster, comes out of
school one day and doesn't find her mother meeting her. She decides to
travel home her self though she doesn't know her address and remembers the
road only visually.
Awards/Nominations:
1998 Istanbul International Film Festival - Winner, Golden Tulip; 1997
Locarno International Film Festival - Winner, Golden Leopard; 1996 New York
Film Critics Circle Awards - Winner, Best Foreign Language Film; 1998
Singapore International Film Festival - Winner, Silver Screen Award Best
Asian Director; 1997
Valladolid International Film Festival - Nominated, Golden Spike
For inquries/confirmation, call Bituin (726-6054), Eric (364-7955). Maxie
(751-1169).
Email: pelikula_titusbrandsma-owner@yahoogroups.com, tbcmedia@yahoo.com or
pelikula.tbc@gmail.com (To post ad, inquiries, communications)
Website: www.pelikula-titusbrandsma.ph .
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24 Acacia St. Brgy. Mariana, New Manila, Quezon City
March 24, 2007, 1pm onwardsADMISSION IS FREE
Pelikula@Titus Brandsma is a free monthly film screening with film dialogue
in each line-up that features fine samples of world cinema. It's an offering
of the Titus Brandsma Center-Media Program under the auspices of the
Carmelites in the Philippines.
A film dialogue is a systematic, goal-oriented, personal ("inner") and group
dialogue on films and TV stories that facilitate the sharing of faith-life
experiences, reflections and interpretations of the varied meanings of life
towards integration and wholeness.
Sequence:
The Trip to Bountiful (1985-USA) - Peter Masterson
Cast: Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De
Mornay
108 mins
Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is
set in 1947 Houston. Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped
in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law
and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to
revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers
to as "home." The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health
to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae,
insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts
"escape" attempts each month which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. Watts'
Social Security check. With writing by Horton Foote ("To Kill a
Mockingbird," "Tender Mercies"), this is the touching story of Mrs. Watts
successful escape and last trip home.
Awards/Nominations:
1986 Oscar Awards - Winner, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Geraldine Page).
Nominated, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium;
1986 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Winner, Best Actress; 1986
Golden Globes, USA - Nominated, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture - Drama; 1986 Independent Spirit Awards - Winner, Best Female Lead,
Screenplay. Nominated, Best Director, Feature; 1988 Mainichi Film Concours
- Winner, Best Foreign Language Film; 1987 Retirement Research Foundation,
USA - Winner, Wise Owl Award Television and Theatrical Film Fiction; 1986
Writers Guild of America, USA - Nominated, Best Screenplay Based on Material
from Another Medium
Pauline & Paulette (Pauline et Paulette) (2001-Belgium/France/Netherlands)
- Lieven Debrauwe
Cast: Dora van der Groen, Ann Petersen, Rosemarie Bergmans, Julienne De
Bruyn, Idwig Stephane
78 mins. In Dutch with English subtitles.
Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is mentally retarded and
been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger
sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for
Pauline to be looked after. Neither of them is ready to take care of her.
Paulette has a shop to look after and Cecile has her Albert. But according
to Martha's last will, her fortune will only be divided in three equal parts
if one of the sisters looks after Pauline. If they decide to take her to an
institution, Pauline will be the only heir.
Awards/Nominations:
2001 AFI Fest - Nominated, Grand Jury Prize; 2001 Cairo International Film
Festival - Winner, Golden Pyramid; 2001 Cannes Film Festival - Winner,
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention; 2002 Flaiano Film Festival -
Winner, Best Actress (Ann Petersen), Costume Design; 2001 Gardanne Film
Festival -Winner, Audience Award; 2001 Joseph Plateau Awards - Winner, Box
Office Award, Best Belgian Actress (Dora van der Groen), Belgian Director,
Belgian Film, Belgian Screenplay. Nominated, Best Belgian Actress (Ann
Petersen); 2001
World Soundtrack Awards - Nominated, Best Original Score of the Year Not
Released on an Album
The Mirror (Ayneh) (1997-Iran) - Japar Panahi
Cast: Mina Mohammad Khani, Kazem Mojdehi, Naser Omuni
95 mins. In Arabic/Persian with English subtitles.
A girl in traditional female clothing, and her arm in plaster, comes out of
school one day and doesn't find her mother meeting her. She decides to
travel home her self though she doesn't know her address and remembers the
road only visually.
Awards/Nominations:
1998 Istanbul International Film Festival - Winner, Golden Tulip; 1997
Locarno International Film Festival - Winner, Golden Leopard; 1996 New York
Film Critics Circle Awards - Winner, Best Foreign Language Film; 1998
Singapore International Film Festival - Winner, Silver Screen Award Best
Asian Director; 1997
Valladolid International Film Festival - Nominated, Golden Spike
For inquries/confirmation, call Bituin (726-6054), Eric (364-7955). Maxie
(751-1169).
Email: pelikula_titusbrandsma-owner@yahoogroups.com
pelikula.tbc@gmail.com
Website: www.pelikula-titusbrandsma.ph .
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Alliance Française de Manille screening
The af Ciné Club presents
Cause Toujours
a film by Jeanne Labrune
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 87 minutes
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 8:30 pm
( Free Admission )
(Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening)
Starring:
Victoria Abril (Jacinthe), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Bruno), Sylvie Testud
(Léa), Didier Bezace - (Laurent), Claude Perron (Judith), and more
Genre: Comedy / (more)
Critics Reviews:
"beautiful images and music and of course, great quality of its actors."
-Le Parisien
"The film forms a crackle whole of intelligence, humour and humanity."
-Libération - Gérard Lefort
Synopsis:
My first is a moth (exasperating)
My second is a mute (enigmatic)
My third is a house (worrying)
My all is a film, which takes the form of a fantasy, about mistrust and
trust.
************************************************
For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm
Cause Toujours
a film by Jeanne Labrune
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 87 minutes
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 8:30 pm
( Free Admission )
(Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening)
Starring:
Victoria Abril (Jacinthe), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Bruno), Sylvie Testud
(Léa), Didier Bezace - (Laurent), Claude Perron (Judith), and more
Genre: Comedy / (more)
Critics Reviews:
"beautiful images and music and of course, great quality of its actors."
-Le Parisien
"The film forms a crackle whole of intelligence, humour and humanity."
-Libération - Gérard Lefort
Synopsis:
My first is a moth (exasperating)
My second is a mute (enigmatic)
My third is a house (worrying)
My all is a film, which takes the form of a fantasy, about mistrust and
trust.
************************************************
For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
PANTASYA at UPFI
Gay fantasies for the straight guy
You’ve encountered queer eye for the straight guy, now experience the gay fantasies for the straight guy as UP Film Institute in Diliman, Quezon City premieres for a one-time-only affair on Tuesday, 20 March 2007, at 7 p.m. the new digital feature entitled Pantasya from international award-winning director Brillante Mendoza.
A digital feature in five episodes that all deal with the wildest gay fantasies involving “men in uniform,” Pantasya in action takes place round the clock with each episode segueing to the next as follows:
Biyahe (10:45 a.m.): A jealous teen gay student hails a taxi cab of a jilted taxi driver. Misery loves company, so the two depressed hearts easily find comfort in each other’s lonely arms.
Linya (1:20 p.m.): A hermit gay homeowner calls a phone company to have his landline fixed. Two easy-going linemen show up to fix not only the line gone awry but also the hermit’s lonesome heart.
Laro (3 p.m.): After an inter-barangay basketball game, an introverted gay fan finds way into the locker room and takes a closer peek at the ball players doing a different game under the shower.
Biliiis! (5:48 p.m.): A delivery boy races against time to bring pizza to a bored gay yuppie working overtime. Luck seems to evade the frantic boy but the yuppie changes it.
Bantay (11:45 p.m.): Gay lovers are quarreling. Boyfriend drops artist at the townhouse after the tiff. The horny security guard in his graveyard shift offers more than a shoulder to cry on.
Pantasya is a Viva Entertainment presentation produced by Centerstage Productions and topbilled by Philippine cinema’s sexiest men today! Its premiere is another UP Film Institute exclusive certainly not to be missed.
To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute e-group: upfilminstitute@ yahoogroups. com
All you have to know is in your inbox.
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
You’ve encountered queer eye for the straight guy, now experience the gay fantasies for the straight guy as UP Film Institute in Diliman, Quezon City premieres for a one-time-only affair on Tuesday, 20 March 2007, at 7 p.m. the new digital feature entitled Pantasya from international award-winning director Brillante Mendoza.
A digital feature in five episodes that all deal with the wildest gay fantasies involving “men in uniform,” Pantasya in action takes place round the clock with each episode segueing to the next as follows:
Biyahe (10:45 a.m.): A jealous teen gay student hails a taxi cab of a jilted taxi driver. Misery loves company, so the two depressed hearts easily find comfort in each other’s lonely arms.
Linya (1:20 p.m.): A hermit gay homeowner calls a phone company to have his landline fixed. Two easy-going linemen show up to fix not only the line gone awry but also the hermit’s lonesome heart.
Laro (3 p.m.): After an inter-barangay basketball game, an introverted gay fan finds way into the locker room and takes a closer peek at the ball players doing a different game under the shower.
Biliiis! (5:48 p.m.): A delivery boy races against time to bring pizza to a bored gay yuppie working overtime. Luck seems to evade the frantic boy but the yuppie changes it.
Bantay (11:45 p.m.): Gay lovers are quarreling. Boyfriend drops artist at the townhouse after the tiff. The horny security guard in his graveyard shift offers more than a shoulder to cry on.
Pantasya is a Viva Entertainment presentation produced by Centerstage Productions and topbilled by Philippine cinema’s sexiest men today! Its premiere is another UP Film Institute exclusive certainly not to be missed.
To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute e-group: upfilminstitute@ yahoogroups. com
All you have to know is in your inbox.
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
Monday, March 19, 2007
CineKatipunan screenings
THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN
March 19-24, 2007
Mervin Espina opens this week with the Malaysian
Mondays program of AsiaLunes, featuring a documentary
by Lam Li. Other exciting highlights for this week’s
Cinekatipunan program are animated shorts by
multi-awarded graphics artists and art educators Ramon
del Prado, Edwin Guillermo, ArtFarm, Avid Liongoren,
Vivian Limpin, Brendan Goco and Roxlee on Friday,
March 23, and Lav Diaz’s 10-hour opus Ebolusyon ng
Isang Pamilyang Pilipino (Evolution of a Filipino
Family) for the whole of Saturday.
For our painter’s pick this Wednesday, independent
curator and conceptual artist Roberto Chabet
recommends Francois Girard’s 32 vignettes on the life
of Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould. This is
followed on Thursday by Sigfried Sanchez’s
mockumentary on the protracted search for the late
Lino Brocka’s purported progeny. S-Express continues
with its selections on Tuesday.
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
While the film screenings are free, viewers are
encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or
comments aboutCinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@ yahoo.com.
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly
holding of Live Performances by well-known and
emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located
along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in
Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191
or?visit www.magnet.com. ph.
PROGRAM
March 19 (Monday)
ASIALunes: East Asian and South East Asian Program
(Curated by Mervin Espina)
A documentary by Lam Li
SURVIVING BEIJING
(Lam Li | 2005 | Documentary | Malaysia-China |
85mins)
+ NAO
March 20 (Tuesday)
Alexis Tioseco: S-Express
Alexis Tiosco presents selections from S-Express, an
active Southeast Asian network for short film
exchange. Initiated in 2001 by programmers Yuni Hadi
(Substation, Singapore), Chalida Uabumrungjit (Thai
Film Foundation), and Amir Muhammad (Malaysian
Shorts), the group has expanded to involve Indonesia
(Minikino) since 2004, plus the Philippines, and China
(Maggie Lee) since 2005.
March 21 (Wednesday)
Chabet's Choice: Francois Girard: 23 SHORT FILMS ABOUT
GLENN GOULD (1993)
A collection of vignettes highlighting different
aspects of the life, work, and character of the
acclaimed Canadian classical pianist, Glenn Gould.
Directed by Quebec native Francois Girard, it won
multiple Genie awards--including best picture, and
best director for Girard--for its sensitive treatment
of Gould's life and considerable legacy.
François Girard originally conceived 32 Short Films
About Glenn Gould as a biography to try to explain the
bizarre genius of the master pianist who stopped
touring in 1963 at the height of his success.
March 22 (Thursday)
CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS PROGRAM
Sigfreid Sanchez: ANAK NI BROCKA
A motley group of television journalists stumble upon
a possible scoop: that the Philippines' national
cinema hero, Lino Brocka, actually sired a son. Video
cameras in hand, the journalists set off in search for
clues about the National Artist's life, discovering
much more aspects to the late filmmaker's than what
they initially expected. This eye-opening digital
feature and mockumentary includes interviews with many
of Brocka's protégés and colleagues, including Nonie
Buencamino, Jacklyn Jose, Gina Alajar, Bembol Roco,
Angie Ferro, Jeffrey Quizon, Joonee Gamboa, Chanda
Romero, Soxy Topacio, Menggie Cobarrubias, Geoff
Eigenmann, Nanding Josef, Allan Paule, Timothy Diwa,
Francis Magalona, Behn Cervantes, and Philip Salvador.
Sigfreid Barros-Sanchez directed Ang "Anak Ni Brocka"
and the black comedy Lasponggols (Last Take, Last
Shot) via film grants from Cinemalaya and Cinema One
Originals, respectively. "Ang Anak ni Brocka" was
screened at the Pesaro Film Festival in Italy and at
the San Pedro, California Film Festival and the Hawaii
Film Festival. As a music video director, Sanchez won
the Best Director plum for the 2006 Awit Awards for
Sugarfree's "Hari Ng Sablay". His next video, Hale's
"The Day You Said Goodnight" was nominated at the 2005
NU Rock Awards for Best Music Video, the 2006 MYX
Awards, and the 2006 Awit Awards.
March 23 (Friday)
ANIMATION PROGRAM: Works by Ramon del Prado, Edwin
Guillermo, ArtFarm, Avid Liongoren, Vivian Limpin,
Brendan Goco and Roxlee
Ramon del Prado is a self taught 2d animator/
filmmaker / graphic designer. Born on May 1, 1982 in
Dumaguete City Negros Oriental, where he grew up. He
moved to Manila at age 17 and graduated from De La
Salle University - Manila at 2003 under the
Communication Arts Program where he received his
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis award for his first
major film, "EGG". He is currently doing freelance
graphic design and tries to find time to do more
animated films on his own.
Edwin Guillermo showcases the following recent short
works done in Claymation:
Karaniwang Tae: Originally set in Ortigas, this
Claymation short tells the story of an anthropomorphic
piece of shit who gains the ability to turn into human
form in order to woo the prettiest woman he has ever
seen. She turns out to be a call center agent.
Guillermo's first narrative animation short, the final
project from UPFI's Art and Animation workshop
facilitated by Roxlee.
Poring Glory: This Claymation short narrates about the
friendship between a teardrop-like Poring and a
catterpillar- like Fabre. These two fantasy creatures
were taken from Ragnarok Online, a popular online game
in the Philippines. Poring Glory has won 3rd place in
the Level-Up LIVE! 2006 Filmfest.
Moral Lesson: Another Claymation short based on
another online game. Based on the sci-fi game RF
Online, this is the story of a young human clone being
taught the fundamentals of their robotic Accretian
race - science and logic, before she sheds her flesh
for a sturdier metallic body. Offical entry to the
Level-Up LIVE! 2006 Filmfest.
Mutationpermutation : A Claymation short designed to
introduce Math and Science week for a certain high
school. Exposed to nuclear radiation, a primitive
creature starts to mutate and evolve into higher and
mathematical forms.
ArtFarm Asia, the first animation school in the
Philippines, has produced the all-Filipino animated
feature called "Kuwentong Kayumanggi" that was aired
on GMA-7. The company also did two feature films for
Roger Corman, a Hollywood-based movie producer.
Avid Liongoren is an illustrator, graphic designer,
commercial and music video director and more. A
graduate of the University of the Philippines College
of Fine Arts (UP-CFA), he combines free-hand art and
digital technology, contemporary quirk and
individualist expression in his digital art works and
'drawings' and multi-awarded music videos. Avid is all
set to release his first independent motion picture
entitled "Saving Sally."
Vivian N. Limpin is a graduate of B.A. Malikhaing
Pagsulat sa Filipino (Creative Writing in Filipino)
from the University of the Philippines in 1995. She
has published poems, essays, short stories, feature
articles and scripts in various magazines, newspapers,
comics, and books for NGO’s, written and translated
plays and vignettes for TROPA (Teatro, Pelikula, Arte)
and other production groups. She has also expanded her
poetry readings into performance poetry. She was a
Writing Fellow for Drama in the 22nd UP National
Writers Workshop in 1994, and for Poetry in Filipino
in the 19th Cornelio Faigao Writers Workshop in 2002.
Brendan Goco is a prolific animator, illustrator and
photographer. A dedicated art educator, he has
facilitated animation workshops at the Mowelfund Film
Institute and the UP Film Institute and is currently a
part-time instructor (teaching illustration) at the
Ateneo de Manila University.
Roxlee is an advocate of independent and underground
cinema in the Philippines. Apart from making animated
and collage films, he is also a comic strip artist,
drawing such strips as 'Cesar Asar' and 'Santingwar' .
He started as a cartoonist and began making animation
and short films in 1983 up to the present. He made
around six short super 8 films, six short films in
16mm, one short 35mm film, and a full length 35mm
feature film entitled "Cesar Asar," based in his
popular comic strip. One of the founders of a group of
Filipino animators called "Animagination, " Roxlee is
also a staff of the Yamagata Documentary Film
Festival, held every two years in Japan.
March 24 (Saturday)
Lav Diaz: Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino
(Evolution of a Filipino Family)
(10 1/2 hours):
The story of "Eboluyson ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino"
spans the years 1971 to 1987, the period that defines
the problems of the present Filipino psyche-why is it
so brutalized, so troubled, so apathetic and complex.
The years 1971 and 1972 were the height of radicalism
by the Philippine Left, the onset of the
Muslim-Christian strife in the island of Mindanao and
the eventual declaration of Martial Law by dictator
Ferdinand Marcos. From 1964 up to 1985, the Marcos
regime trampled on human rights, institutionalized
graft and corruption in the bureaucracy, and looted
the national coffers. In 1986, a peaceful uprising
called The People's Power Revolution forced Marcos out
of the country ending his dictatorial rule and
installing Corazon Aquino, widow of the murdered Ninoy
Aquino- Marcos' top political foe, as President.
Against this backdrop is the farming family Gallardo,
whose struggle and condition mirrors the marginalized
population of the Philippines; the sector trapped in a
situation not of their own doing, but born from a
system that could not provide proper social services,
and of a feudal culture that only protected and
empowered the status quo. Central to the story are the
disintegration, displacement and dysfunction caused by
poverty, not just to the family unit but, also, to the
individual members. These and other characters form
the cycle of lives that intertwine and interact as the
nation struggles to survive economically, politically,
sociologically and spiritually.
For those who are familiar with Diaz’s works,
"Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino" is "Batang
West Side I". "Batang West Side" tackled the very same
premise, subject and theme but explored it in a very
different time and milieu-the need to critique the
Filipino, examine his condition, confront his past.
"Batang West Side" dealt with our scars, "Ebolusyon…"
explores the infliction of the wound.
"Ebolusyon…" is eleven years in the making.
Pre-production started in December of 1993 in Jersey
City, and began photography on March 8, 1994 in
Lexington, New Jersey. Production was protracted and
independent; shot only when there was money, and if
the crew and actors were available. The Philippine
shoot started in early 1997 in Gerona, Tarlac, and
culminated early April of 2003 in the majestic
mountains of Itogon, Benguet. More scenes were added
last October and November of 2004.
Post production started February of 2004 and finally
stopped January 31, 2005. Different versions of the
film was already shown in various festivals-The Asian
American International Film Festival of New York 2004
(8 hours rough cut on vhs), The Toronto International
Film Festival 2004 (10 hours on digital beta), The
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005 and
Goteberg Film Festival 2005 (10 hours 43 minutes).
March 19-24, 2007
Mervin Espina opens this week with the Malaysian
Mondays program of AsiaLunes, featuring a documentary
by Lam Li. Other exciting highlights for this week’s
Cinekatipunan program are animated shorts by
multi-awarded graphics artists and art educators Ramon
del Prado, Edwin Guillermo, ArtFarm, Avid Liongoren,
Vivian Limpin, Brendan Goco and Roxlee on Friday,
March 23, and Lav Diaz’s 10-hour opus Ebolusyon ng
Isang Pamilyang Pilipino (Evolution of a Filipino
Family) for the whole of Saturday.
For our painter’s pick this Wednesday, independent
curator and conceptual artist Roberto Chabet
recommends Francois Girard’s 32 vignettes on the life
of Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould. This is
followed on Thursday by Sigfried Sanchez’s
mockumentary on the protracted search for the late
Lino Brocka’s purported progeny. S-Express continues
with its selections on Tuesday.
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
While the film screenings are free, viewers are
encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or
comments aboutCinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@ yahoo.com.
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly
holding of Live Performances by well-known and
emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located
along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in
Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191
or?visit www.magnet.com. ph.
PROGRAM
March 19 (Monday)
ASIALunes: East Asian and South East Asian Program
(Curated by Mervin Espina)
A documentary by Lam Li
SURVIVING BEIJING
(Lam Li | 2005 | Documentary | Malaysia-China |
85mins)
+ NAO
March 20 (Tuesday)
Alexis Tioseco: S-Express
Alexis Tiosco presents selections from S-Express, an
active Southeast Asian network for short film
exchange. Initiated in 2001 by programmers Yuni Hadi
(Substation, Singapore), Chalida Uabumrungjit (Thai
Film Foundation), and Amir Muhammad (Malaysian
Shorts), the group has expanded to involve Indonesia
(Minikino) since 2004, plus the Philippines, and China
(Maggie Lee) since 2005.
March 21 (Wednesday)
Chabet's Choice: Francois Girard: 23 SHORT FILMS ABOUT
GLENN GOULD (1993)
A collection of vignettes highlighting different
aspects of the life, work, and character of the
acclaimed Canadian classical pianist, Glenn Gould.
Directed by Quebec native Francois Girard, it won
multiple Genie awards--including best picture, and
best director for Girard--for its sensitive treatment
of Gould's life and considerable legacy.
François Girard originally conceived 32 Short Films
About Glenn Gould as a biography to try to explain the
bizarre genius of the master pianist who stopped
touring in 1963 at the height of his success.
March 22 (Thursday)
CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS PROGRAM
Sigfreid Sanchez: ANAK NI BROCKA
A motley group of television journalists stumble upon
a possible scoop: that the Philippines' national
cinema hero, Lino Brocka, actually sired a son. Video
cameras in hand, the journalists set off in search for
clues about the National Artist's life, discovering
much more aspects to the late filmmaker's than what
they initially expected. This eye-opening digital
feature and mockumentary includes interviews with many
of Brocka's protégés and colleagues, including Nonie
Buencamino, Jacklyn Jose, Gina Alajar, Bembol Roco,
Angie Ferro, Jeffrey Quizon, Joonee Gamboa, Chanda
Romero, Soxy Topacio, Menggie Cobarrubias, Geoff
Eigenmann, Nanding Josef, Allan Paule, Timothy Diwa,
Francis Magalona, Behn Cervantes, and Philip Salvador.
Sigfreid Barros-Sanchez directed Ang "Anak Ni Brocka"
and the black comedy Lasponggols (Last Take, Last
Shot) via film grants from Cinemalaya and Cinema One
Originals, respectively. "Ang Anak ni Brocka" was
screened at the Pesaro Film Festival in Italy and at
the San Pedro, California Film Festival and the Hawaii
Film Festival. As a music video director, Sanchez won
the Best Director plum for the 2006 Awit Awards for
Sugarfree's "Hari Ng Sablay". His next video, Hale's
"The Day You Said Goodnight" was nominated at the 2005
NU Rock Awards for Best Music Video, the 2006 MYX
Awards, and the 2006 Awit Awards.
March 23 (Friday)
ANIMATION PROGRAM: Works by Ramon del Prado, Edwin
Guillermo, ArtFarm, Avid Liongoren, Vivian Limpin,
Brendan Goco and Roxlee
Ramon del Prado is a self taught 2d animator/
filmmaker / graphic designer. Born on May 1, 1982 in
Dumaguete City Negros Oriental, where he grew up. He
moved to Manila at age 17 and graduated from De La
Salle University - Manila at 2003 under the
Communication Arts Program where he received his
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis award for his first
major film, "EGG". He is currently doing freelance
graphic design and tries to find time to do more
animated films on his own.
Edwin Guillermo showcases the following recent short
works done in Claymation:
Karaniwang Tae: Originally set in Ortigas, this
Claymation short tells the story of an anthropomorphic
piece of shit who gains the ability to turn into human
form in order to woo the prettiest woman he has ever
seen. She turns out to be a call center agent.
Guillermo's first narrative animation short, the final
project from UPFI's Art and Animation workshop
facilitated by Roxlee.
Poring Glory: This Claymation short narrates about the
friendship between a teardrop-like Poring and a
catterpillar- like Fabre. These two fantasy creatures
were taken from Ragnarok Online, a popular online game
in the Philippines. Poring Glory has won 3rd place in
the Level-Up LIVE! 2006 Filmfest.
Moral Lesson: Another Claymation short based on
another online game. Based on the sci-fi game RF
Online, this is the story of a young human clone being
taught the fundamentals of their robotic Accretian
race - science and logic, before she sheds her flesh
for a sturdier metallic body. Offical entry to the
Level-Up LIVE! 2006 Filmfest.
Mutationpermutation : A Claymation short designed to
introduce Math and Science week for a certain high
school. Exposed to nuclear radiation, a primitive
creature starts to mutate and evolve into higher and
mathematical forms.
ArtFarm Asia, the first animation school in the
Philippines, has produced the all-Filipino animated
feature called "Kuwentong Kayumanggi" that was aired
on GMA-7. The company also did two feature films for
Roger Corman, a Hollywood-based movie producer.
Avid Liongoren is an illustrator, graphic designer,
commercial and music video director and more. A
graduate of the University of the Philippines College
of Fine Arts (UP-CFA), he combines free-hand art and
digital technology, contemporary quirk and
individualist expression in his digital art works and
'drawings' and multi-awarded music videos. Avid is all
set to release his first independent motion picture
entitled "Saving Sally."
Vivian N. Limpin is a graduate of B.A. Malikhaing
Pagsulat sa Filipino (Creative Writing in Filipino)
from the University of the Philippines in 1995. She
has published poems, essays, short stories, feature
articles and scripts in various magazines, newspapers,
comics, and books for NGO’s, written and translated
plays and vignettes for TROPA (Teatro, Pelikula, Arte)
and other production groups. She has also expanded her
poetry readings into performance poetry. She was a
Writing Fellow for Drama in the 22nd UP National
Writers Workshop in 1994, and for Poetry in Filipino
in the 19th Cornelio Faigao Writers Workshop in 2002.
Brendan Goco is a prolific animator, illustrator and
photographer. A dedicated art educator, he has
facilitated animation workshops at the Mowelfund Film
Institute and the UP Film Institute and is currently a
part-time instructor (teaching illustration) at the
Ateneo de Manila University.
Roxlee is an advocate of independent and underground
cinema in the Philippines. Apart from making animated
and collage films, he is also a comic strip artist,
drawing such strips as 'Cesar Asar' and 'Santingwar' .
He started as a cartoonist and began making animation
and short films in 1983 up to the present. He made
around six short super 8 films, six short films in
16mm, one short 35mm film, and a full length 35mm
feature film entitled "Cesar Asar," based in his
popular comic strip. One of the founders of a group of
Filipino animators called "Animagination, " Roxlee is
also a staff of the Yamagata Documentary Film
Festival, held every two years in Japan.
March 24 (Saturday)
Lav Diaz: Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino
(Evolution of a Filipino Family)
(10 1/2 hours):
The story of "Eboluyson ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino"
spans the years 1971 to 1987, the period that defines
the problems of the present Filipino psyche-why is it
so brutalized, so troubled, so apathetic and complex.
The years 1971 and 1972 were the height of radicalism
by the Philippine Left, the onset of the
Muslim-Christian strife in the island of Mindanao and
the eventual declaration of Martial Law by dictator
Ferdinand Marcos. From 1964 up to 1985, the Marcos
regime trampled on human rights, institutionalized
graft and corruption in the bureaucracy, and looted
the national coffers. In 1986, a peaceful uprising
called The People's Power Revolution forced Marcos out
of the country ending his dictatorial rule and
installing Corazon Aquino, widow of the murdered Ninoy
Aquino- Marcos' top political foe, as President.
Against this backdrop is the farming family Gallardo,
whose struggle and condition mirrors the marginalized
population of the Philippines; the sector trapped in a
situation not of their own doing, but born from a
system that could not provide proper social services,
and of a feudal culture that only protected and
empowered the status quo. Central to the story are the
disintegration, displacement and dysfunction caused by
poverty, not just to the family unit but, also, to the
individual members. These and other characters form
the cycle of lives that intertwine and interact as the
nation struggles to survive economically, politically,
sociologically and spiritually.
For those who are familiar with Diaz’s works,
"Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino" is "Batang
West Side I". "Batang West Side" tackled the very same
premise, subject and theme but explored it in a very
different time and milieu-the need to critique the
Filipino, examine his condition, confront his past.
"Batang West Side" dealt with our scars, "Ebolusyon…"
explores the infliction of the wound.
"Ebolusyon…" is eleven years in the making.
Pre-production started in December of 1993 in Jersey
City, and began photography on March 8, 1994 in
Lexington, New Jersey. Production was protracted and
independent; shot only when there was money, and if
the crew and actors were available. The Philippine
shoot started in early 1997 in Gerona, Tarlac, and
culminated early April of 2003 in the majestic
mountains of Itogon, Benguet. More scenes were added
last October and November of 2004.
Post production started February of 2004 and finally
stopped January 31, 2005. Different versions of the
film was already shown in various festivals-The Asian
American International Film Festival of New York 2004
(8 hours rough cut on vhs), The Toronto International
Film Festival 2004 (10 hours on digital beta), The
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005 and
Goteberg Film Festival 2005 (10 hours 43 minutes).
THE DEPARTED at UPFI
Special Full Run for The Departed
The UP Film Institute is most proud to bring back this year's Oscar Winner
for Best Picture The Departed for which Martin Scorsese has finally
bagged the Academy Award for Best Director gets a full run as follows: March
19 Mon 2/5/7:30 p.m.; Mar 20 Tue 1:30/4:30 p.m.; Mar 21 Wed 1:30/5/7:30 p.m.;
Mar 22 Thu 5/7:30 p.m.
A Warner Bros. Pictures release,The Departed is the US remake of
Infernal Affairs-the acclaimed 2002 Hong Kong flick co-directed by Alan Mak
and Andrew Lau that was followed in turn by a prequel and a sequel.
The UP Film Institute's full run for The Departed forms part of a
school-ends special to wrap up the entire academic year.
Here's a recap of UP Film Institute's current screenings for the convenient
reference of all concerned:
Mar 19 Mon 2/5/7:30 p.m.
The Departed
Mar 20 Tue 1:30/4:30 p.m.
The Departed
Mar 20 Tue 7 p.m.
Premiere: Pantasya
Mar 21 Wed 1:30/5/7:30 p.m.
The Departed
Mar 21 Wed 4 p.m.
Free Film from Iran: Thought (Pendar) by Leila Mirhadi
Mar 22 Thu 5/7:30 p.m.
The Departed
Mar 23 Fri
Cine Italia
5 p.m. Paisa' (Paisan) by Roberto Rossellini
7 p.m. Il Postino (The Postman) by Michael Radford
Mar 24 Sat
Cine Italia
2 p.m. Germania Anno Zero (Germany Year Zero) by Roberto Rossellini
5 p.m. I Vitelloni (The Young and the Passionate) by Federico Fellini
7 p.m. La Notte di S. Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars) by Paolo and
Vittorio Taviani
March 26 Mon 9 a.m. onwards
Theses Day 1
Mar 26 Mon 5/7 p.m.
Kabul Express
March 27 Tue 9 a.m. onwards
Theses Day 2
Mar 27 Tue 5/7 p.m.
Kabul Express
Mar 28 Wed 5/7 p.m.
Ask the Dust
Mar 29 Thu 5 p.m.
Free Films from Iran
Up by the Road by Marjan Ashrafizadeh
Milkan by Minoo Kiani
Thought (Pendar) by Leila Mirhadi
Mar 29 Thu 7 p.m.
Ask the Dust
Mar 30 Fri
Free Films from Iran
2 p.m. The Actor by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
5 p.m. Kandahar by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
7 p.m. The Father by Majid Majidi
Mar 31 Sat
Free Films from Iran
2 p.m. The Peddler by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
5 p.m. The Cyclist by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
7 p.m. The Color of Paradise by Majid Majidi
Apr 2 Mon 5/7 p.m.
Kabul Express
Apr 3 Tue 5/7 p.m.
Kabul Express
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/International Association of Film and Television Schools)
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
The UP Film Institute is most proud to bring back this year's Oscar Winner
for Best Picture The Departed for which Martin Scorsese has finally
bagged the Academy Award for Best Director gets a full run as follows: March
19 Mon 2/5/7:30 p.m.; Mar 20 Tue 1:30/4:30 p.m.; Mar 21 Wed 1:30/5/7:30 p.m.;
Mar 22 Thu 5/7:30 p.m.
A Warner Bros. Pictures release,The Departed is the US remake of
Infernal Affairs-the acclaimed 2002 Hong Kong flick co-directed by Alan Mak
and Andrew Lau that was followed in turn by a prequel and a sequel.
The UP Film Institute's full run for The Departed forms part of a
school-ends special to wrap up the entire academic year.
Here's a recap of UP Film Institute's current screenings for the convenient
reference of all concerned:
Mar 19 Mon 2/5/7:30 p.m.
The Departed
Mar 20 Tue 1:30/4:30 p.m.
The Departed
Mar 20 Tue 7 p.m.
Premiere: Pantasya
Mar 21 Wed 1:30/5/7:30 p.m.
The Departed
Mar 21 Wed 4 p.m.
Free Film from Iran: Thought (Pendar) by Leila Mirhadi
Mar 22 Thu 5/7:30 p.m.
The Departed
Mar 23 Fri
Cine Italia
5 p.m. Paisa' (Paisan) by Roberto Rossellini
7 p.m. Il Postino (The Postman) by Michael Radford
Mar 24 Sat
Cine Italia
2 p.m. Germania Anno Zero (Germany Year Zero) by Roberto Rossellini
5 p.m. I Vitelloni (The Young and the Passionate) by Federico Fellini
7 p.m. La Notte di S. Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars) by Paolo and
Vittorio Taviani
March 26 Mon 9 a.m. onwards
Theses Day 1
Mar 26 Mon 5/7 p.m.
Kabul Express
March 27 Tue 9 a.m. onwards
Theses Day 2
Mar 27 Tue 5/7 p.m.
Kabul Express
Mar 28 Wed 5/7 p.m.
Ask the Dust
Mar 29 Thu 5 p.m.
Free Films from Iran
Up by the Road by Marjan Ashrafizadeh
Milkan by Minoo Kiani
Thought (Pendar) by Leila Mirhadi
Mar 29 Thu 7 p.m.
Ask the Dust
Mar 30 Fri
Free Films from Iran
2 p.m. The Actor by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
5 p.m. Kandahar by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
7 p.m. The Father by Majid Majidi
Mar 31 Sat
Free Films from Iran
2 p.m. The Peddler by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
5 p.m. The Cyclist by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
7 p.m. The Color of Paradise by Majid Majidi
Apr 2 Mon 5/7 p.m.
Kabul Express
Apr 3 Tue 5/7 p.m.
Kabul Express
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/International Association of Film and Television Schools)
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
BATAD at SM Cinemas
"BATAD UNTIL MARCH 20 ONLY!
Now you have a chance to see the award-winning film BATAD sa Paang
Palay, at SM Digital Theaters!
Watch the funny, heartwarming & magical story unfold at the following
SM branches: SM Fairview, Mega, North Edsa, Manila, Centerpoint, Southmall,
San Lazaro, Davao, Cebu, Clark, San Fernando & Mall of Asia
Screening Schedule:
M/T/W/TH - 2PM 5PM 8PM
F/SAT/SUN - 12NN 3PM 6PM 9PM
Rated "G" by MTRCB
Rate "A" by Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB)
Now you have a chance to see the award-winning film BATAD sa Paang
Palay, at SM Digital Theaters!
Watch the funny, heartwarming & magical story unfold at the following
SM branches: SM Fairview, Mega, North Edsa, Manila, Centerpoint, Southmall,
San Lazaro, Davao, Cebu, Clark, San Fernando & Mall of Asia
Screening Schedule:
M/T/W/TH - 2PM 5PM 8PM
F/SAT/SUN - 12NN 3PM 6PM 9PM
Rated "G" by MTRCB
Rate "A" by Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB)
SURVIVING BEIJING screening
A documentary by Lam Li
SURVIVING BEIJING
March 19, 2007
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café, Katipunan Avenue
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
For more inquiries please call 9293191 or visit www.magnet.com.ph.
SURVIVING BEIJING
(Lam Li | 2005 | Documentary | Malaysia-China | 85 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: Chinese & English
Dedicated to the Huang Ho label, pioneers of Malaysian Chinese independent music, the documentary traces the group's infamous trip to China to find international recognition--only to return disillusioned.
Surviving begins as they set off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the autumn of year 2000, and tracks their one month experience living illegally in a place known as the Rockers' Village in the outskirts of Beijing—an erstwhile farming village once considered as the base of aspiring Chinese underground musicians, who led alternative lifestyles and dedicated their lives to making music with a strong social and political bent.
Seeking performance opportunities in shabby pubs and bars, struggling to make an impression while adapting to the alien environment where speaking the same language does not necessarily translate to understanding, their musical quest in the name of the independent spirit quickly turns into a baptism of fire and a test of friendships. The film also examines the impact the month-long Beijing escapade had on the development of the Malaysian Chinese independent music scene.
A crowd favorite in several film and music festivals in Singapore and Taiwan, including "Urban Nomad Film Festival 2006", "Shooting Left Asia Film Festival 2006" and "Spring Scream Music Festival 2006," this documentary has even made its way back to China through a series of nationwide screenings organized by Chinese rock band Miserable Faith and independent film producer, Sun Zhi Qiang.
Special thanks to Mak Wai Hoo of Soundscape Records for making the Cinekatipunan screening possible. This film will be a preceded by NAO, a short documentary on a militant young Malaysian band that has “a voice with the critical precision of a surgeon’s knife.”
http://myspace.com/isnao
http://www.soundscape-records.com/nao/
SURVIVING BEIJING
March 19, 2007
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café, Katipunan Avenue
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
For more inquiries please call 9293191 or visit www.magnet.com.ph.
SURVIVING BEIJING
(Lam Li | 2005 | Documentary | Malaysia-China | 85 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: Chinese & English
Dedicated to the Huang Ho label, pioneers of Malaysian Chinese independent music, the documentary traces the group's infamous trip to China to find international recognition--only to return disillusioned.
Surviving begins as they set off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the autumn of year 2000, and tracks their one month experience living illegally in a place known as the Rockers' Village in the outskirts of Beijing—an erstwhile farming village once considered as the base of aspiring Chinese underground musicians, who led alternative lifestyles and dedicated their lives to making music with a strong social and political bent.
Seeking performance opportunities in shabby pubs and bars, struggling to make an impression while adapting to the alien environment where speaking the same language does not necessarily translate to understanding, their musical quest in the name of the independent spirit quickly turns into a baptism of fire and a test of friendships. The film also examines the impact the month-long Beijing escapade had on the development of the Malaysian Chinese independent music scene.
A crowd favorite in several film and music festivals in Singapore and Taiwan, including "Urban Nomad Film Festival 2006", "Shooting Left Asia Film Festival 2006" and "Spring Scream Music Festival 2006," this documentary has even made its way back to China through a series of nationwide screenings organized by Chinese rock band Miserable Faith and independent film producer, Sun Zhi Qiang.
Special thanks to Mak Wai Hoo of Soundscape Records for making the Cinekatipunan screening possible. This film will be a preceded by NAO, a short documentary on a militant young Malaysian band that has “a voice with the critical precision of a surgeon’s knife.”
http://myspace.com/isnao
http://www.soundscape-records.com/nao/
Friday, March 16, 2007
Cine Italia at UPFI
Cine Italia
The UP Film Institute presents an Italian cinema showcase of vintage and instant classics courtesy of the Philippine-Italian Association.
Schedule of screenings all for free at the UPFI Videotheque is as follows:
Mar 16 Fri
5 p.m. Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) by Vittorio de Sica
7 p.m. Roma, citta’ aperta ( Rome , Open City) by Roberto Rossellini
Mar 17 Sat
2 p.m. Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester) by Roberto Rossellini
5 p.m. Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy ) by Roberto Rossellini
7 p.m. La Corsa dell’ innocente (Flight of the Innocent) by Carlo Carlei
Mar 23 Fri
5 p.m. Paisa’ (Paisan) by Roberto Rossellini
7 p.m. Il Postino (The Postman) by Michael Radford
Mar 24 Sat
2 p.m. Germania Anno Zero ( Germany Year Zero) by Roberto Rossellini
5 p.m. I Vitelloni (The Young and the Passionate) by Federico Fellini
7 p.m. La Notte di S. Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars) by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Please refer to the following for notes and descriptions:
Roma, citta’ aperta ( Rome , Open City)
1946, 100 minutes, War
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
One of the greatest foreign language films ever made, Roberto Rossellini’s Rome , Open City was filmed in the direct aftermath of World War II on the war-ravaged streets of Italy . Shunning Hollywood gloss and glamour, this frank tale is set against the backdrop of extreme conditions– natural lighting, handheld camerawork and a cast composed largely of non-actors. Based on real events that took place on Nazi-occupied Italy in 1944, it examines the choices that people are forced to make in wartime.
Il Postino (The Postman)
1994, 115 minutes, Drama/Romance
Director : Michael Radford
Starring : Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret and Maria Grazia Cucinotta
The touching relationship between the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, exiled in a little island near Naples , and a shy and uncultured postman who possessed the heart of a poet. It was the first international success for Troisi, a popular star in Italy , who died the day after filming was completed.
Germania Anno Zero (Germany Year Zero)
1947, 78 minutes, Neorealism
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Barbara Hintz, Franz Graer,
Hingetrad Hinzf, Eric Guhne
After the devastation of World War II, Berlin has become a wasteland of citizens fighting for survival and trying to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. This is the world of twelve-year old Edmund, a child who has known only upheaval and violence. Yet he goes on from day to day, trying to help his family by finding money or food on the streets. One day he meets his former school teacher, who now profits from Nazi propaganda, which sets in motion a shocking new chain of violence.
La Notte di S. Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars)
1982, 116 minutes, War/Drama
Directors : Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
Starring : Omero Antonutti, Margherita Lozano
Six year-old Cecilia is fascinated by the world and everything in it. And when her family and neighbors flee their village to escape the Nazis, it’s the most exciting moment of her life! But the excitement turns to terror when the enemy begins to close in. Little Cecilia prays for rescue, on this, the Night of the Shooting Stars an evening during which, it is said, all wishes are granted. Can Cecilia’s wish be granted…? Or will this be her eternal night?
Paisa’ (Paisan)
1946, 90 minutes, Neorealism
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dots Johnson, Alfonsino Pasca, Maria Michi
Paisan consists of six episodes depicting the resistance struggle and Allied liberation of Italy at the close of World War II. Using a cast of largely non-professional actors, the stories center mostly on small encounters between the Italian people and their liberators: a Sicilian woman is murdered for warning an American patrol of nearby Germans; a drunken GI has his shoes stolen and stumbles upon the children on Naples living in squalor; a girl from Rome, innocent at the time of liberation, becomes a prostitute.
La Corsa dell’ innocente (Flight of the Innocent)
1992, 115 minutes, Thriller
Director : Carlo Carlei
Starring : Manuel Colao, Francesca Neri, Jacques Perrin, Federico Pacifici, Lucio Zagaria
The gentle son of a brutal kidnapper, ten-year-old Vito (Manuel Colao) witnesses the massacre of his family by rival gang and narrowly escapes into the Italian countryside. Relentlessly pursued by the killers and the police, he begins a terrifying life on the run, determined to outwit his followers, find a new, honorable and caring family for himself and end his family’s lineage of crime.
Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy )
1953, 80 minutes, Drama
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders
Widely misunderstood and shamefully denigrated at the time of its original release, but now recognized as not simply on of Rossellini’s greatest films but as one of the key works of modern cinema, Journey to Italy is a deceptively simple piece. There is a little plot to speak of: a marriage is breaking up under the strains of a trip to Italy and we watch. But in its deliberate rejection of many aspects of ‘classic’ Hollywood narrative and its stubborn pursuit of a quite different aesthetic, its meandering story line creates space for ideas and time for reflection.
Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester)
1950, 75 minutes, Religion / Biography
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Nazario Gerardi, Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre
Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly render the very spirit of Franciscan teaching in this extraordinarily fresh and simple film – largely unappreciated at the time of its release, but now regarded as one of his greatest. Shot in a neorealist manner with non-professional actors (including thirteen actual Franciscan monks) it avoids the pious clichés of haloed movie saints with an economy of expression and a touching, human quality.
I Vitelloni (The Young and the Passionate)
1953, 103 minutes Drama
Director : Federico Fellini
Starring : Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste,
Riccardo Fellini, Carlo Romano, Enrico Viarisio, Paola Borboni
I Vitelloni (literally "fatted veal calves") is largely a lighthearted autobiographical story of a 4 idle young men who live in a small seaside town, and their hopes antics, miseries and aspirations. I Vitelloni was Oscar nominated in 1958 and won at Venice Film Festival.
Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief)
1949, 90 minutes, Drama / Neorealism
Director : Vittorio De Sica
Starring : Lamberto Maggiorani, Roberto Staiola, Lionella Carrell
An excellent example of Italian neorealism, the Bicycle Thief depicts the extreme living conditions in Italy after World War II. Impoverished and desperate for work, Ricci is finally called to a well-paying job in the city, the only condition is that he needs a bicycle-which he has just pawned. The relationship between individuals and the masses is emphasized and Director de Sica chooses amateurs to portray many of the characters.
The film is noted as the Most Outstanding Foreign Film in the U.S. in 1949, and the Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign Film in 1950
To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute e-group: upfilminstitute@ yahoogroups. com
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
The UP Film Institute presents an Italian cinema showcase of vintage and instant classics courtesy of the Philippine-Italian Association.
Schedule of screenings all for free at the UPFI Videotheque is as follows:
Mar 16 Fri
5 p.m. Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) by Vittorio de Sica
7 p.m. Roma, citta’ aperta ( Rome , Open City) by Roberto Rossellini
Mar 17 Sat
2 p.m. Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester) by Roberto Rossellini
5 p.m. Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy ) by Roberto Rossellini
7 p.m. La Corsa dell’ innocente (Flight of the Innocent) by Carlo Carlei
Mar 23 Fri
5 p.m. Paisa’ (Paisan) by Roberto Rossellini
7 p.m. Il Postino (The Postman) by Michael Radford
Mar 24 Sat
2 p.m. Germania Anno Zero ( Germany Year Zero) by Roberto Rossellini
5 p.m. I Vitelloni (The Young and the Passionate) by Federico Fellini
7 p.m. La Notte di S. Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars) by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Please refer to the following for notes and descriptions:
Roma, citta’ aperta ( Rome , Open City)
1946, 100 minutes, War
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
One of the greatest foreign language films ever made, Roberto Rossellini’s Rome , Open City was filmed in the direct aftermath of World War II on the war-ravaged streets of Italy . Shunning Hollywood gloss and glamour, this frank tale is set against the backdrop of extreme conditions– natural lighting, handheld camerawork and a cast composed largely of non-actors. Based on real events that took place on Nazi-occupied Italy in 1944, it examines the choices that people are forced to make in wartime.
Il Postino (The Postman)
1994, 115 minutes, Drama/Romance
Director : Michael Radford
Starring : Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret and Maria Grazia Cucinotta
The touching relationship between the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, exiled in a little island near Naples , and a shy and uncultured postman who possessed the heart of a poet. It was the first international success for Troisi, a popular star in Italy , who died the day after filming was completed.
Germania Anno Zero (Germany Year Zero)
1947, 78 minutes, Neorealism
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Barbara Hintz, Franz Graer,
Hingetrad Hinzf, Eric Guhne
After the devastation of World War II, Berlin has become a wasteland of citizens fighting for survival and trying to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. This is the world of twelve-year old Edmund, a child who has known only upheaval and violence. Yet he goes on from day to day, trying to help his family by finding money or food on the streets. One day he meets his former school teacher, who now profits from Nazi propaganda, which sets in motion a shocking new chain of violence.
La Notte di S. Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars)
1982, 116 minutes, War/Drama
Directors : Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
Starring : Omero Antonutti, Margherita Lozano
Six year-old Cecilia is fascinated by the world and everything in it. And when her family and neighbors flee their village to escape the Nazis, it’s the most exciting moment of her life! But the excitement turns to terror when the enemy begins to close in. Little Cecilia prays for rescue, on this, the Night of the Shooting Stars an evening during which, it is said, all wishes are granted. Can Cecilia’s wish be granted…? Or will this be her eternal night?
Paisa’ (Paisan)
1946, 90 minutes, Neorealism
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dots Johnson, Alfonsino Pasca, Maria Michi
Paisan consists of six episodes depicting the resistance struggle and Allied liberation of Italy at the close of World War II. Using a cast of largely non-professional actors, the stories center mostly on small encounters between the Italian people and their liberators: a Sicilian woman is murdered for warning an American patrol of nearby Germans; a drunken GI has his shoes stolen and stumbles upon the children on Naples living in squalor; a girl from Rome, innocent at the time of liberation, becomes a prostitute.
La Corsa dell’ innocente (Flight of the Innocent)
1992, 115 minutes, Thriller
Director : Carlo Carlei
Starring : Manuel Colao, Francesca Neri, Jacques Perrin, Federico Pacifici, Lucio Zagaria
The gentle son of a brutal kidnapper, ten-year-old Vito (Manuel Colao) witnesses the massacre of his family by rival gang and narrowly escapes into the Italian countryside. Relentlessly pursued by the killers and the police, he begins a terrifying life on the run, determined to outwit his followers, find a new, honorable and caring family for himself and end his family’s lineage of crime.
Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy )
1953, 80 minutes, Drama
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders
Widely misunderstood and shamefully denigrated at the time of its original release, but now recognized as not simply on of Rossellini’s greatest films but as one of the key works of modern cinema, Journey to Italy is a deceptively simple piece. There is a little plot to speak of: a marriage is breaking up under the strains of a trip to Italy and we watch. But in its deliberate rejection of many aspects of ‘classic’ Hollywood narrative and its stubborn pursuit of a quite different aesthetic, its meandering story line creates space for ideas and time for reflection.
Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester)
1950, 75 minutes, Religion / Biography
Director : Roberto Rossellini
Starring : Nazario Gerardi, Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre
Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly render the very spirit of Franciscan teaching in this extraordinarily fresh and simple film – largely unappreciated at the time of its release, but now regarded as one of his greatest. Shot in a neorealist manner with non-professional actors (including thirteen actual Franciscan monks) it avoids the pious clichés of haloed movie saints with an economy of expression and a touching, human quality.
I Vitelloni (The Young and the Passionate)
1953, 103 minutes Drama
Director : Federico Fellini
Starring : Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste,
Riccardo Fellini, Carlo Romano, Enrico Viarisio, Paola Borboni
I Vitelloni (literally "fatted veal calves") is largely a lighthearted autobiographical story of a 4 idle young men who live in a small seaside town, and their hopes antics, miseries and aspirations. I Vitelloni was Oscar nominated in 1958 and won at Venice Film Festival.
Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief)
1949, 90 minutes, Drama / Neorealism
Director : Vittorio De Sica
Starring : Lamberto Maggiorani, Roberto Staiola, Lionella Carrell
An excellent example of Italian neorealism, the Bicycle Thief depicts the extreme living conditions in Italy after World War II. Impoverished and desperate for work, Ricci is finally called to a well-paying job in the city, the only condition is that he needs a bicycle-which he has just pawned. The relationship between individuals and the masses is emphasized and Director de Sica chooses amateurs to portray many of the characters.
The film is noted as the Most Outstanding Foreign Film in the U.S. in 1949, and the Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign Film in 1950
To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute e-group: upfilminstitute@ yahoogroups. com
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
Thursday, March 15, 2007
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO screening
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO opens March 21 in SM Digital Cinema nationwide. Starring Johnny Delgado, Jennifer Sevilla, Baron Geisler, Monica Llamas, Arnold Reyes, Angeli Bayani and Ms. Boots Anson-Roa. Written and directed by Nick Olanka.
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO
Synopsis
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO spans a week in a life of seven individuals with interconnected narratives. Domeng is involved in networking or multi-level marketing business and plans to encourage his estranged daughter Luna to join in this unscrupulous business. Luna is abandoned by her husband and son so she asks help from her mother Aling Tess. Aling Tess is a land lady who lives alone and fancies a young male boarder named Kulas. Kulas is a grocery store employee who aspires to become a store manager to impress Julie. Julie is a laundry shop attendant who is obsessed with a male costumer named Brian. Brian is a nurse in a local hospital who wants to work abroad so he persuades his girlfriend Sally to provide for his "fixer" fees. An accounting graduate who failed to pass the board exam for two consecutive years, Sally enters Domeng's networking business in the hopes of proving her worth. When she found out that networking is a scam Sally plans to take revenge on Domeng. The film illustrates the interconnectedness of our lives, a cycle of random events in which the decisions we make are as important as the choices we didn't take.
About the Director
NICK JOSEPH OLANKA graduated from The UP Film Institute last April 2006. His graduation short film "Lunes ng Hapis" won the 2005 Kodak Film School Competition and is the Philippine entry for the Asia-Pacific Kodak Film School Competition. It also won award in 18th CCP Independent Film and Video Competition and is currently competing in CONCAN Movie Festival in Japan. "Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo" is his first digital feature.
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO
Synopsis
ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO spans a week in a life of seven individuals with interconnected narratives. Domeng is involved in networking or multi-level marketing business and plans to encourage his estranged daughter Luna to join in this unscrupulous business. Luna is abandoned by her husband and son so she asks help from her mother Aling Tess. Aling Tess is a land lady who lives alone and fancies a young male boarder named Kulas. Kulas is a grocery store employee who aspires to become a store manager to impress Julie. Julie is a laundry shop attendant who is obsessed with a male costumer named Brian. Brian is a nurse in a local hospital who wants to work abroad so he persuades his girlfriend Sally to provide for his "fixer" fees. An accounting graduate who failed to pass the board exam for two consecutive years, Sally enters Domeng's networking business in the hopes of proving her worth. When she found out that networking is a scam Sally plans to take revenge on Domeng. The film illustrates the interconnectedness of our lives, a cycle of random events in which the decisions we make are as important as the choices we didn't take.
About the Director
NICK JOSEPH OLANKA graduated from The UP Film Institute last April 2006. His graduation short film "Lunes ng Hapis" won the 2005 Kodak Film School Competition and is the Philippine entry for the Asia-Pacific Kodak Film School Competition. It also won award in 18th CCP Independent Film and Video Competition and is currently competing in CONCAN Movie Festival in Japan. "Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo" is his first digital feature.
The Holiday at UPFI
UP Film Institute’s women’s celebration culminates with The Holiday
The UP Film Institute’s own women’s celebration highlighted by the 17th International Women’s Film Festival currently extended culminates with female auteur Nancy Meyers’ latest oeuvre, The Holiday, with a big-screen showcase on Wednesday, 14 March 2007, at 2 and 7 p.m. and Thursday, 15 March 2007, at 5 p.m.
The Solar Entertainment presentation of the United International Pictures release stars Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black. It tells the tale of a successful trailer editor from Los Angeles with man problems jaunting over to England in a distinct exchange deal with a lady journalist from Surrey who has similar troubles. Meyers is the award-winning screenwriter- turned-director behind such female-empowering crowd pleasers as The Parent Trap, What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give.
The distinct screening of The Holiday constitutes Solar Entertainment and United International Pictures’ precious contribution to the UP Film Institute’s festivities this year in conjunction with the worldwide women’s celebration come every March.
The Holiday
A United International Pictures Release through Solar Entertainment
A trailer editor from Los Angeles with man problems jaunts over to England in a distinct exchange deal with a lady journalist from Surrey who has similar troubles.
Direction and Screenplay: Nancy Meyers. Cast: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black.
2006 140 minutes 35mm color
The UP Film Institute’s own women’s celebration highlighted by the 17th International Women’s Film Festival currently extended culminates with female auteur Nancy Meyers’ latest oeuvre, The Holiday, with a big-screen showcase on Wednesday, 14 March 2007, at 2 and 7 p.m. and Thursday, 15 March 2007, at 5 p.m.
The Solar Entertainment presentation of the United International Pictures release stars Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black. It tells the tale of a successful trailer editor from Los Angeles with man problems jaunting over to England in a distinct exchange deal with a lady journalist from Surrey who has similar troubles. Meyers is the award-winning screenwriter- turned-director behind such female-empowering crowd pleasers as The Parent Trap, What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give.
The distinct screening of The Holiday constitutes Solar Entertainment and United International Pictures’ precious contribution to the UP Film Institute’s festivities this year in conjunction with the worldwide women’s celebration come every March.
The Holiday
A United International Pictures Release through Solar Entertainment
A trailer editor from Los Angeles with man problems jaunts over to England in a distinct exchange deal with a lady journalist from Surrey who has similar troubles.
Direction and Screenplay: Nancy Meyers. Cast: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black.
2006 140 minutes 35mm color
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Compound returns to Indiesine
Compound returns to
Indie Sine, Robinsons Galleria Ortigas
on March 14 to 20, 2007
MTRCB rating is R-18 (approved without cuts)
Indie Sine, Robinsons Galleria Ortigas
on March 14 to 20, 2007
MTRCB rating is R-18 (approved without cuts)
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
EKSENA BAR screenings
LINAO FILMS in cooperation with EKSENA present
MOMENTARIES
The Films of JP V. CARPIO
1. BUNKER 0: SUMIRIB PLUS - 2006
- 10 minutes
- Color
- Documentary
- MiniDV
The film shows a series of moments involving the people of Sitio
Sumirib, Barangay La Paz in the municipality of Nueva Valencia,
province of Guimaras, one of the areas most affected by the massive
oil spill from the sunken tanker Solar 1 chartered by the Petron oil
corporation. The film focuses more on their thoughts and feelings
regarding this man-made ecological disaster, and the actions they
are taking to somehow cope with very difficult times ahead.
Bunker 0: Sumirib Plus is the first in a series of films concerning
the Guimaras Oil Spill disaster. It is presented here in Ilonggo and
Tagalog languages with English subtitles. (Screened as part of the
Independent Filmmaker Cooperative' s "Guimaras: Short films from the
Oil Spill" Festival, November 2006)
2. VTR - 2007
- 10 minutes
- Color
- Experimental Narrative
- MiniDV
Edited from footage shot in 2004, the film is an attempt to ask the
question "How much of our life are we in on and how much are we out
of?" (PREMIERE Status)
STARRING: Tessa De Guzman and JP V. Carpio
3. TAKO (cue)- 2007
- 42 minutes
- Color
- Narrative
- MiniDV
Also edited from footage shot in 2004, the film follows the get-
together of a group of friends at a house somewhere in Metro Manila.
In the midst of the fun and the partying, underlying tensions rise
and break out between Jimmy and Aissa during a friendly game of
billiards. The film is an episode in a future full length
film "Jimmy, Aissa: Henry, Tricia".
(PREMIERE Status)
STARRING: Jourdan Sebastian, Vanny Liwanag, Reinier Laiño, Elaine
Jose Bobadilla
ALSO FEATURING: Aren Adao, Ida Calumpang, Magali Cleret, +Kat
Diamante, Mikko Javier, Francis Mantis, Oz Mendoza, Miguel Pancho,
Sophie Rodriguez, Joacqui Tupas, Adelle Victoria
PLUS!!!!
FILMS By ANGONO Artist REMBRANDT VOCALAN
* CHOP-CHOP MODELLING AGENCY
* NOSEPERATU
LIVE PERFORMANCES! !!!
* TALES OF DOOM
* KONTRALUZ
* ILLIASTER
* 'D INCIDENTALS
MARCH 13, 2007
KOLUMN BAR & CAFE
#46 Sct. Torillo corner
Timog Avenue, QC
(Ponciana's/ Off the Grill side)
9pm onwards
!!!! FREE ENTRANCE !!!!
an EKSENA productions presentation
love films. love pinoy music.
MOMENTARIES
The Films of JP V. CARPIO
1. BUNKER 0: SUMIRIB PLUS - 2006
- 10 minutes
- Color
- Documentary
- MiniDV
The film shows a series of moments involving the people of Sitio
Sumirib, Barangay La Paz in the municipality of Nueva Valencia,
province of Guimaras, one of the areas most affected by the massive
oil spill from the sunken tanker Solar 1 chartered by the Petron oil
corporation. The film focuses more on their thoughts and feelings
regarding this man-made ecological disaster, and the actions they
are taking to somehow cope with very difficult times ahead.
Bunker 0: Sumirib Plus is the first in a series of films concerning
the Guimaras Oil Spill disaster. It is presented here in Ilonggo and
Tagalog languages with English subtitles. (Screened as part of the
Independent Filmmaker Cooperative' s "Guimaras: Short films from the
Oil Spill" Festival, November 2006)
2. VTR - 2007
- 10 minutes
- Color
- Experimental Narrative
- MiniDV
Edited from footage shot in 2004, the film is an attempt to ask the
question "How much of our life are we in on and how much are we out
of?" (PREMIERE Status)
STARRING: Tessa De Guzman and JP V. Carpio
3. TAKO (cue)- 2007
- 42 minutes
- Color
- Narrative
- MiniDV
Also edited from footage shot in 2004, the film follows the get-
together of a group of friends at a house somewhere in Metro Manila.
In the midst of the fun and the partying, underlying tensions rise
and break out between Jimmy and Aissa during a friendly game of
billiards. The film is an episode in a future full length
film "Jimmy, Aissa: Henry, Tricia".
(PREMIERE Status)
STARRING: Jourdan Sebastian, Vanny Liwanag, Reinier Laiño, Elaine
Jose Bobadilla
ALSO FEATURING: Aren Adao, Ida Calumpang, Magali Cleret, +Kat
Diamante, Mikko Javier, Francis Mantis, Oz Mendoza, Miguel Pancho,
Sophie Rodriguez, Joacqui Tupas, Adelle Victoria
PLUS!!!!
FILMS By ANGONO Artist REMBRANDT VOCALAN
* CHOP-CHOP MODELLING AGENCY
* NOSEPERATU
LIVE PERFORMANCES! !!!
* TALES OF DOOM
* KONTRALUZ
* ILLIASTER
* 'D INCIDENTALS
MARCH 13, 2007
KOLUMN BAR & CAFE
#46 Sct. Torillo corner
Timog Avenue, QC
(Ponciana's/ Off the Grill side)
9pm onwards
!!!! FREE ENTRANCE !!!!
an EKSENA productions presentation
love films. love pinoy music.
Monday, March 12, 2007
THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN
March 12 - 17, 2007
CINEKATIPUNAN opens the week with its South East Asian
Program on March 12, featuring digital short films by
Malaysian filmmaker and theater director James Lee.
Activist audio-visual group SIPAT shows us how it is
to be inside Mendiola's bowels on Tuesday. Watch new
and experimental works by visual artists Kaloy
Olavides and Manuel Ocampo on Wednesday and Thursday
respectively, while Filipino-Canadian
filmmaker/musician/performer Romeo Candido offers us a
mix tape featuring 13 of his short works on Friday,
March 16. Kidlat Tahimik closes the week with
critically-acclaimed work on Saturday.
March 12 (Monday)
ASIALunes: East Asian and South East Asian Program
Curated by Mervin Espina
James Lee's
Shorts About Love
GOODBYE TO LOVE (2004, 16 min) | A MOMENT OF LOVE
(2005, 10 min) | BERNAFAS DALAM LUMPUR (2005, 18 min)
| SOMETIMES LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (2005, 12 min)
March 13 (Tuesday)
SIPAT: Mendiola (31 mins)
From the First Quarter Storm in the 1970s to the
Mendiola massacre in 1987 to the state's Calibrated
Preemptive Response policy two years ago--from the
very start, the road to Mendiola has cradled the very
centers of conflict. This work is a documentary about
Mendiola's significance as a symbolic and actual site
of struggle, the stretch of road a tug-of-war for the
Palace several hundred meters away. Treading through
Mendiola is still a great risk, but a necessary one
nonetheess, for to look directly at the eye of the
storm is to have the strength to confront those in
power. On the road to Mendiola, one can tread across
the history of a peoples' continuing struggle for
change.
March 14 (Wednesday)
Films by Visual Artists
Kaloy Olavides: DIRECTORY (Curated by Poklong Anading)
Directory is a two-piece work yet which is
interdependent on each other. The first of the piece
is a video projection of a hand with a pen writing an
instruction. The video is shot in slow motion, running
approximately for 40 minutes. The other half of the
work can be seen after the whole video will be
screened.
DIRECTORY is a critique directed at artworks that are
bound only to the place where they stand or are put
in. An example is that most paintings are treated
according only to the boundaries of the image inside
the canvas. It's idea is to go beyond the piece; thus
creating a new set of pieces but which, conversely,
rely on each other.
March 15 (Thursday)
Manuel Ocampo: Manuel 's Selective Up-chunks
March 16 (Friday)
Romeo Candido: KA-AMULAN and other SHORTS
The ROMEO CANDIDO MiX TAPE (49 mins)
An exploration of culture through music, dance, drama
and media. Features works such as:
1. a sunday in the park (2003) - a Hi 8 video
featuring Rona Figueroa. A beautiful actress, singer,
writer, with Broadway credits and a penchant for
longsword. The music plays a variation of the main
kulingtan theme from the Singkil dance. The work
documents Candido's experimentation with potential
filmmaking techniques, including cheap in-camera
effects, for an arnis film he was working on for the
last three years.
2. Meditations For the Restless (2001)- Candido's
first work to explore editing within a static image
and the title track for his first solo E.P. "I was
just learning final cut pro, on my G3, and discovered
freeze frames, 1 frame cuts, dissolves, color grading.
I started at 6 in the evening and finished 6 in the
morning," he says of this.
3. KUTTIN KANDY (2001)- Candido's first project
edited with FCP. A feature on Kuttin Kandy, one of the
first and most feared female turntablists in the U.S
and an ate to the thriving Filipino/a hip hop scene.
4. ST JAMESTOWN trailer and excerpt (2004) - A one
hour television pilot about the most ethnically
diverse neighborhood in Toronto Canada, featuring a
cast composed of actual residents from the area and
shot during a time when the neighborhood was
experiencing terrible conflicts between youth and law
enforcement.
5. Fool 4 Love (2007) -Footage from Candido's first
children's commercial shot in the Philippines.
6. Lilac Cana (2002) -An exercise in overexposure and
shadows, featuring the Filipino-Canadian artist who
broke into the classical music scene in Toronto in
2000.
7. Snowhere (2007) - A DIY video shot recently during
Candido's first winter back in Canada in three years.
8. The Kuya Medley (2003) - A docu-musical of the soul
group KUYA performing in the executive offices of
record labels in New York and hustling for a deal.
Despite the undeniable talent, the industry couldn't
commit to an all-Pinoy soul group. They had many
supporters, from Wycleff, to Babyface, to Pharell, to
Timbaland and beyond. Also an exercise in live music
editing.
9. Purification by Fire (2002) - Members from The
Fiesta Filipina Dance Troupe of Canada backstage
before a performance in Pittsburg. This is an excerpt
from DANCERS! PICK UP YOUR BAMBOOS! a 26 minute
documentary about the history of the oldest Filipino
Folkdance company in Canada.
10. Babylon is Falling Trailer (2001) - a spec trailer
of a martial arts movie that was never, ever made.
11. Lolo's Child Music Video and excerpt (2001) - The
very first Filipino feature film from Canada, and up
to now, the only one. From Candido's Ishmael Bernal
award -winning feature length film Lolo's Child. A
film about dealing with death and domestic violence in
an immigrant home.
12. Ka-Amulan (2002) - An impressionistic piece based
on the kaamulan Filipino folkdance. Another excerpt
from the documentary Dancers! Pick Up Your Bamboos!
13. Ang Pamana : The Inheritance extended trailer
(2006) - This is Candido's first feature film to be
shot in the Philippines. A supernatural folktale about
what happens when a balikbayan inherits land in deep
dark Bulacan, shot in 35mm dolby digital.
March 17 (Saturday)
Kidlat Tahimik: TURUMBA
Turumba (1984)
Set in a tiny Philippine village, Tahimik's Turumba
focuses on one family which traditionally made
papier-mache animals to sell during the Turumba
religious festivities. When they get a huge order, the
whole life of the family is changed, as Tahimik wryly
observes the "creation of the proletariat."
Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
The story of the filmmaker's awakening from his long
nightmare, the lotus land of a third world naif's
entrancement by the promises of American technological
society.
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
While the film screenings are free, viewers are
encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or
comments about Cinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com.
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly
holding of Live Performances by well-known and
emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located
along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in
Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191 or
visit www.magnet.com.ph.
CINEKATIPUNAN opens the week with its South East Asian
Program on March 12, featuring digital short films by
Malaysian filmmaker and theater director James Lee.
Activist audio-visual group SIPAT shows us how it is
to be inside Mendiola's bowels on Tuesday. Watch new
and experimental works by visual artists Kaloy
Olavides and Manuel Ocampo on Wednesday and Thursday
respectively, while Filipino-Canadian
filmmaker/musician/performer Romeo Candido offers us a
mix tape featuring 13 of his short works on Friday,
March 16. Kidlat Tahimik closes the week with
critically-acclaimed work on Saturday.
March 12 (Monday)
ASIALunes: East Asian and South East Asian Program
Curated by Mervin Espina
James Lee's
Shorts About Love
GOODBYE TO LOVE (2004, 16 min) | A MOMENT OF LOVE
(2005, 10 min) | BERNAFAS DALAM LUMPUR (2005, 18 min)
| SOMETIMES LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (2005, 12 min)
March 13 (Tuesday)
SIPAT: Mendiola (31 mins)
From the First Quarter Storm in the 1970s to the
Mendiola massacre in 1987 to the state's Calibrated
Preemptive Response policy two years ago--from the
very start, the road to Mendiola has cradled the very
centers of conflict. This work is a documentary about
Mendiola's significance as a symbolic and actual site
of struggle, the stretch of road a tug-of-war for the
Palace several hundred meters away. Treading through
Mendiola is still a great risk, but a necessary one
nonetheess, for to look directly at the eye of the
storm is to have the strength to confront those in
power. On the road to Mendiola, one can tread across
the history of a peoples' continuing struggle for
change.
March 14 (Wednesday)
Films by Visual Artists
Kaloy Olavides: DIRECTORY (Curated by Poklong Anading)
Directory is a two-piece work yet which is
interdependent on each other. The first of the piece
is a video projection of a hand with a pen writing an
instruction. The video is shot in slow motion, running
approximately for 40 minutes. The other half of the
work can be seen after the whole video will be
screened.
DIRECTORY is a critique directed at artworks that are
bound only to the place where they stand or are put
in. An example is that most paintings are treated
according only to the boundaries of the image inside
the canvas. It's idea is to go beyond the piece; thus
creating a new set of pieces but which, conversely,
rely on each other.
March 15 (Thursday)
Manuel Ocampo: Manuel 's Selective Up-chunks
March 16 (Friday)
Romeo Candido: KA-AMULAN and other SHORTS
The ROMEO CANDIDO MiX TAPE (49 mins)
An exploration of culture through music, dance, drama
and media. Features works such as:
1. a sunday in the park (2003) - a Hi 8 video
featuring Rona Figueroa. A beautiful actress, singer,
writer, with Broadway credits and a penchant for
longsword. The music plays a variation of the main
kulingtan theme from the Singkil dance. The work
documents Candido's experimentation with potential
filmmaking techniques, including cheap in-camera
effects, for an arnis film he was working on for the
last three years.
2. Meditations For the Restless (2001)- Candido's
first work to explore editing within a static image
and the title track for his first solo E.P. "I was
just learning final cut pro, on my G3, and discovered
freeze frames, 1 frame cuts, dissolves, color grading.
I started at 6 in the evening and finished 6 in the
morning," he says of this.
3. KUTTIN KANDY (2001)- Candido's first project
edited with FCP. A feature on Kuttin Kandy, one of the
first and most feared female turntablists in the U.S
and an ate to the thriving Filipino/a hip hop scene.
4. ST JAMESTOWN trailer and excerpt (2004) - A one
hour television pilot about the most ethnically
diverse neighborhood in Toronto Canada, featuring a
cast composed of actual residents from the area and
shot during a time when the neighborhood was
experiencing terrible conflicts between youth and law
enforcement.
5. Fool 4 Love (2007) -Footage from Candido's first
children's commercial shot in the Philippines.
6. Lilac Cana (2002) -An exercise in overexposure and
shadows, featuring the Filipino-Canadian artist who
broke into the classical music scene in Toronto in
2000.
7. Snowhere (2007) - A DIY video shot recently during
Candido's first winter back in Canada in three years.
8. The Kuya Medley (2003) - A docu-musical of the soul
group KUYA performing in the executive offices of
record labels in New York and hustling for a deal.
Despite the undeniable talent, the industry couldn't
commit to an all-Pinoy soul group. They had many
supporters, from Wycleff, to Babyface, to Pharell, to
Timbaland and beyond. Also an exercise in live music
editing.
9. Purification by Fire (2002) - Members from The
Fiesta Filipina Dance Troupe of Canada backstage
before a performance in Pittsburg. This is an excerpt
from DANCERS! PICK UP YOUR BAMBOOS! a 26 minute
documentary about the history of the oldest Filipino
Folkdance company in Canada.
10. Babylon is Falling Trailer (2001) - a spec trailer
of a martial arts movie that was never, ever made.
11. Lolo's Child Music Video and excerpt (2001) - The
very first Filipino feature film from Canada, and up
to now, the only one. From Candido's Ishmael Bernal
award -winning feature length film Lolo's Child. A
film about dealing with death and domestic violence in
an immigrant home.
12. Ka-Amulan (2002) - An impressionistic piece based
on the kaamulan Filipino folkdance. Another excerpt
from the documentary Dancers! Pick Up Your Bamboos!
13. Ang Pamana : The Inheritance extended trailer
(2006) - This is Candido's first feature film to be
shot in the Philippines. A supernatural folktale about
what happens when a balikbayan inherits land in deep
dark Bulacan, shot in 35mm dolby digital.
March 17 (Saturday)
Kidlat Tahimik: TURUMBA
Turumba (1984)
Set in a tiny Philippine village, Tahimik's Turumba
focuses on one family which traditionally made
papier-mache animals to sell during the Turumba
religious festivities. When they get a huge order, the
whole life of the family is changed, as Tahimik wryly
observes the "creation of the proletariat."
Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
The story of the filmmaker's awakening from his long
nightmare, the lotus land of a third world naif's
entrancement by the promises of American technological
society.
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
While the film screenings are free, viewers are
encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or
comments about Cinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly
holding of Live Performances by well-known and
emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located
along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in
Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191 or
visit www.magnet.com
Malaysian Mondays at Cinekatipunan
ASIALunes
More Malaysian Mondays this March at CINEKATPINUNAN
March 12, 2007
James Lee's
Shorts About Love
GOODBYE TO LOVE (2004, 16 min) |A MOMENT OF LOVE (2005, 10 min) |BERNAFAS DALAM LUMPUR (2005, 18 min) |SOMETIMES LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (2005, 12 min)
March 19, 2007
A documentary by Lam Li
SURVIVING BEIJING
(Lam Li | 2005 | Documentary | Malaysia-China | 85 mins)
+ NAO
March 26, 2007
Amir Muhammad's
6horts (+ 1)
LOST (2002, 9.5 min) | FRIDAY (2002, 8 min) | MONA (2002, 6.5 min) | CHECKPOINT (2002, 7 min) | KAMUNTING (2002, 15 min) | PANGYAU (2002, 12.5 min)
+ 18MP (2006, 14 min)
More Malaysian Mondays this March at CINEKATPINUNAN
March 12, 2007
James Lee's
Shorts About Love
GOODBYE TO LOVE (2004, 16 min) |A MOMENT OF LOVE (2005, 10 min) |BERNAFAS DALAM LUMPUR (2005, 18 min) |SOMETIMES LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (2005, 12 min)
March 19, 2007
A documentary by Lam Li
SURVIVING BEIJING
(Lam Li | 2005 | Documentary | Malaysia-China | 85 mins)
+ NAO
March 26, 2007
Amir Muhammad's
6horts (+ 1)
LOST (2002, 9.5 min) | FRIDAY (2002, 8 min) | MONA (2002, 6.5 min) | CHECKPOINT (2002, 7 min) | KAMUNTING (2002, 15 min) | PANGYAU (2002, 12.5 min)
+ 18MP (2006, 14 min)
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
300 at Rockwell
In 480 B.C., in the face of certain death,
and enemies that numbered two million,
300 elite Spartans stood their ground.
This is their story.
EX LIBRIS PHILIPPINES presents
a special screening of
300
based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller
For the benefit of the Ex Libris Philippines Scholarship Project
7.00 pm. 07 March 2007. Cinema 6. Rockwell Powerplant
Tickets at Php 300.00 each.
For ticket reservations please contact
Gabi Francisco 09209470835, gabitwin@gmail. com
Tata Francisco 09209470861, tatatwin@gmail. com
Watch this blockbuster film and, in the process, help send a U.P. student to school!
Please buy tickets and help us in our cause.
For more information about Ex Libris Philippines and our Scholarship Project, please go to
http://exlibrisphilippines.multiply.com
For more information about the movie "300", please go to
http://300themovie. warnerbros .com/
http://movies. yahoo.com /feature/300. html
http://movies. yahoo.com/ movie /1809262865/ info
and enemies that numbered two million,
300 elite Spartans stood their ground.
This is their story.
EX LIBRIS PHILIPPINES presents
a special screening of
300
based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller
For the benefit of the Ex Libris Philippines Scholarship Project
7.00 pm. 07 March 2007. Cinema 6. Rockwell Powerplant
Tickets at Php 300.00 each.
For ticket reservations please contact
Gabi Francisco 09209470835, gabitwin@gmail. com
Tata Francisco 09209470861, tatatwin@gmail. com
Watch this blockbuster film and, in the process, help send a U.P. student to school!
Please buy tickets and help us in our cause.
For more information about Ex Libris Philippines and our Scholarship Project, please go to
http://exlibrisphilippines.multiply.com
For more information about the movie "300", please go to
http://300themovie. warnerbros .com/
http://movies. yahoo.com /feature/300. html
http://movies. yahoo.com/ movie /1809262865/ info
"Saan Nagtatago si Happiness?" screenings
"Saan Nagtatago si Happiness?" TO BE SHOWnN AT SM DIGITAL THEATERS NATIONWIDE
"Saan Nagtatago si Happiness?" is coming to the big screen
in all SM digital theaters nationwide starting March 7. A box-office
hit in last year's Cinemalaya film festival, this light and breezy
semi-musical cum comedy movie tackles man's elusive search for
happiness in typical Pinoy fashion.
Starring veteran stage actor and singing champion Andy
Bais in the role of Tikyo, an ice cream vendor searching for his lost
mother. The movie was hailed by the father of independent cinema
Kidlat Tahimik for capturing the true sentiments and longings of
ordinary Filipinos. In fact, Tahimik, one of the jurors in the second
Cinemalaya filmfest, handed his special Bamboo Camera award to this
digital film produced by Mediarevolution Film Productions in
cooperation with Tadpole, Inc.
Lending full support to the talented Bais are veteran
movie and television actors like Ricky Davao, Caridad Sanchez, Nanette
Inventor, Rez Cortez, Nonie Buencamino, January Isaac and "Little Big
Star" child sensation Mica Torre and 2006 Singapore filmfest best
actor winner Elijah Castillo.
A surprising twist to this supporting cast is the unusual love team of
Cortez and Inventor, whose funny portrayal of single middle-aged
people looking for the love of their lives elicited wild cheers from
the crowd in last year's CCP run.
Set in a Tondo tenement, the movie unveils insights on
love, faith, trust and the beauty of life despite the hard times. As
Bais explains: "This is the kind of film for the whole family. It has
funny and wacky moments and at the same time, dramatic highlights that
are sure to tug the hearts of viewers. Moviegoers will also be treated
to a set of original Filipino songs that will surely delight them."
The theme song of "Saan Nagtatago si Happiness?" written
by Chi Datu, arranged by Arnold Buena and performed by Nanette
Inventor is nominated Best Original Song in the coming Golden Screen
Awards.
For further information, email mediarevolution@gmail.com.
"Saan Nagtatago si Happiness?" is coming to the big screen
in all SM digital theaters nationwide starting March 7. A box-office
hit in last year's Cinemalaya film festival, this light and breezy
semi-musical cum comedy movie tackles man's elusive search for
happiness in typical Pinoy fashion.
Starring veteran stage actor and singing champion Andy
Bais in the role of Tikyo, an ice cream vendor searching for his lost
mother. The movie was hailed by the father of independent cinema
Kidlat Tahimik for capturing the true sentiments and longings of
ordinary Filipinos. In fact, Tahimik, one of the jurors in the second
Cinemalaya filmfest, handed his special Bamboo Camera award to this
digital film produced by Mediarevolution Film Productions in
cooperation with Tadpole, Inc.
Lending full support to the talented Bais are veteran
movie and television actors like Ricky Davao, Caridad Sanchez, Nanette
Inventor, Rez Cortez, Nonie Buencamino, January Isaac and "Little Big
Star" child sensation Mica Torre and 2006 Singapore filmfest best
actor winner Elijah Castillo.
A surprising twist to this supporting cast is the unusual love team of
Cortez and Inventor, whose funny portrayal of single middle-aged
people looking for the love of their lives elicited wild cheers from
the crowd in last year's CCP run.
Set in a Tondo tenement, the movie unveils insights on
love, faith, trust and the beauty of life despite the hard times. As
Bais explains: "This is the kind of film for the whole family. It has
funny and wacky moments and at the same time, dramatic highlights that
are sure to tug the hearts of viewers. Moviegoers will also be treated
to a set of original Filipino songs that will surely delight them."
The theme song of "Saan Nagtatago si Happiness?" written
by Chi Datu, arranged by Arnold Buena and performed by Nanette
Inventor is nominated Best Original Song in the coming Golden Screen
Awards.
For further information, email mediarevolution@gmail.com.
ROME AND JULIET returns to Indiesine
ROME & JULIET Makes a Return Engagement in Galleria
starting March 7
After its sensational Valentine's week box office
performance, Cinema One Originals' ROME & JULIET gets
an encore theatrical run starting March 7 at the
Robinsons Galleria's Indie Sine Theater.
Starring the daring Mylene Dizon and Andrea del
Rosario, Rome & Juliet was one of the seven chosen
entries in last year's Cinema One Originals Digital
Movie Festival. It also stars Rafael Rosell, Mico
Palanca, Liza Dino, Glydel Mercado and featuring Ms.
Tessie Tomas. The film garnered both acclaim and talks
of controversy for its intriguing plotline which
involved themes of lesbianism.
This digital movie directed by Connie S.A. Macatuno
revolves around the idea that love knows no rules.
When Juliet (Andrea del Rosario), a conservative
pre-school teacher hires Rome (Mylene Dizon), a
liberated wedding planner, for her nuptials, they
become close and develop a romance that becomes a huge
scandal after Juliet's groom (the sexy Rafael Rosell)
and their families discover their affair. Not long
after, Juliet is driven away by her parents and gets
into an accident that puts her in a coma. Tracing the
reasons and depths why two women fell unexpectedly in
love make Rome & Juliet a romance that is both
touching and thought-provoking.
Mylene Dizon won a much-deserved Best Actress trophy
in the Cinema One Originals Digital Movie Festival and
Competition held last November. Co-star Andrea Del Rosario also
impressed movie watchers and observers and was nominated for Best
Actress at the Golden Screen Awards. The movie also got major
category nominations in the upcoming 2007 Star Awards for Movies such
as Movie Actress of the Year for Andrea del Rosario,Movie Director of
the Year for Connie S.A. Macatuno,and Digital Movie of the Year.
Its first successful two-week theatrical run at
Robinsons Galleria, Robinsons Metro East and at
Robinsons Place Ermita Manila precipitated this return
theatrical engagement showing at the Robinsons Galleria.
Rome & Juliet returns to Robinsons Galleria starting March 7. Rome &
Juliet was produced by Creative Programs, Inc. (CPI) through its
annual Cinema One Originals project. Rome & Juliet will also be shown
in Iloilo and Bacolod after its theatrical run in Robinsons Galleria
this March.
starting March 7
After its sensational Valentine's week box office
performance, Cinema One Originals' ROME & JULIET gets
an encore theatrical run starting March 7 at the
Robinsons Galleria's Indie Sine Theater.
Starring the daring Mylene Dizon and Andrea del
Rosario, Rome & Juliet was one of the seven chosen
entries in last year's Cinema One Originals Digital
Movie Festival. It also stars Rafael Rosell, Mico
Palanca, Liza Dino, Glydel Mercado and featuring Ms.
Tessie Tomas. The film garnered both acclaim and talks
of controversy for its intriguing plotline which
involved themes of lesbianism.
This digital movie directed by Connie S.A. Macatuno
revolves around the idea that love knows no rules.
When Juliet (Andrea del Rosario), a conservative
pre-school teacher hires Rome (Mylene Dizon), a
liberated wedding planner, for her nuptials, they
become close and develop a romance that becomes a huge
scandal after Juliet's groom (the sexy Rafael Rosell)
and their families discover their affair. Not long
after, Juliet is driven away by her parents and gets
into an accident that puts her in a coma. Tracing the
reasons and depths why two women fell unexpectedly in
love make Rome & Juliet a romance that is both
touching and thought-provoking.
Mylene Dizon won a much-deserved Best Actress trophy
in the Cinema One Originals Digital Movie Festival and
Competition held last November. Co-star Andrea Del Rosario also
impressed movie watchers and observers and was nominated for Best
Actress at the Golden Screen Awards. The movie also got major
category nominations in the upcoming 2007 Star Awards for Movies such
as Movie Actress of the Year for Andrea del Rosario,Movie Director of
the Year for Connie S.A. Macatuno,and Digital Movie of the Year.
Its first successful two-week theatrical run at
Robinsons Galleria, Robinsons Metro East and at
Robinsons Place Ermita Manila precipitated this return
theatrical engagement showing at the Robinsons Galleria.
Rome & Juliet returns to Robinsons Galleria starting March 7. Rome &
Juliet was produced by Creative Programs, Inc. (CPI) through its
annual Cinema One Originals project. Rome & Juliet will also be shown
in Iloilo and Bacolod after its theatrical run in Robinsons Galleria
this March.
CineVita film festival
MANORO, KUBRADOR at the UST CineVita film festival
Brillante Mendoza's "MANORO" and Jeffrey Jeturian's "KUBRADOR" will
be screened on March 7, 10 a.m., and March 8, 6 p.m., respectively,
as part of the CineVita Film Festival to be held at the Thomas
Aquinas Research Center, University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila.
Organized by the Varsitarian, the 79–year–old student publication of
UST, CineVita will run on March 7–9. According to the Varsitarian,
CineVita is meant "to celebrate life, truth, and faith and uphold
the cinema as tool for meaningful expression and authentic
education."
The festival will also feature local and international
documentaries, shorts, and digital films such as "Orasyon" by Milo
Tolentino, "Armed with Hope" by John Foppe, "Shit Happens" by Nich
Retz Perez, "Ikasiyam na Palapag" by Anna Isabelle Matutina,
and "Sigaw Ko, Pakinggan Mo" by Pro–life Philippines.
All documentaries and local films are open to the public. Foreign
full–length films are exclusive to lecturers, film critics, and
students. Admission is free. For full festival program and schedule,
log on to www.varsitarian.com.
Brillante Mendoza's "MANORO" and Jeffrey Jeturian's "KUBRADOR" will
be screened on March 7, 10 a.m., and March 8, 6 p.m., respectively,
as part of the CineVita Film Festival to be held at the Thomas
Aquinas Research Center, University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila.
Organized by the Varsitarian, the 79–year–old student publication of
UST, CineVita will run on March 7–9. According to the Varsitarian,
CineVita is meant "to celebrate life, truth, and faith and uphold
the cinema as tool for meaningful expression and authentic
education."
The festival will also feature local and international
documentaries, shorts, and digital films such as "Orasyon" by Milo
Tolentino, "Armed with Hope" by John Foppe, "Shit Happens" by Nich
Retz Perez, "Ikasiyam na Palapag" by Anna Isabelle Matutina,
and "Sigaw Ko, Pakinggan Mo" by Pro–life Philippines.
All documentaries and local films are open to the public. Foreign
full–length films are exclusive to lecturers, film critics, and
students. Admission is free. For full festival program and schedule,
log on to www.varsitarian.com.
Monday, March 5, 2007
International Women’s Film Festival 2007
The UP Film Institute gears up for the worldwide women’s celebration for March with the 17th International Women’s Film Festival slated from March 5 Monday to March 8 Thursday.
This year’s theme: “Women Refigured—Making Choices, Creating Changes, Crossing Boundaries.” Admission is free.
Schedule of screenings and other activities all open to the public for free is as follows:
March 5 Mon
5 p.m. International Women’s Short Films: Mindy (USA), Visiting Hours ( Israel ), Sliding Flora ( Israel )
6:45 p.m. Opening Program with Diwata Awards for Women in Film and the 2nd Women’s Short Film Competition
7: 30 p.m. Opening Night Film: Sevigne ( Spain )
March 6 Tue
2 p.m. Amazones (The Netherlands )
5 p.m. Sevigne ( Spain )
7 p.m. La Pasion de Maria Elena ( Mexico )
March 7 Wed
10 a.m. onwards: Official Selection, 2nd Women’s Short Film Competition
2 p.m. Women Refigured Forum with screenings of 2nd Women’s Short Film Competition Winners
5 p.m. Inang Yaya ( Philippines )
7 p.m. Amazones (The Netherlands )
9 p.m. La Pasion de Maria Elena ( Mexico )
March 8 Thu
2 p.m. Digital Feature: Rome and Juliet ( Philippines )
4 p.m. International Women’s Short Films: A Sweet Scent of Mothballs (Serbia-Montenegro) , Stones Fall into a Shallowing Well ( Hungary ), Pangarap Ko Saluhin Mo ( Philippines )
5 p.m. Digital Feature: Mudraks ( Philippines )
7 p.m. Documentary Feature: Alyana ( Philippines ) to be preceded by the new short documentary Breaking Down the Barrier
To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute
e-group: upfilminstitute@ yahoogroups. com
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
This year’s theme: “Women Refigured—Making Choices, Creating Changes, Crossing Boundaries.” Admission is free.
Schedule of screenings and other activities all open to the public for free is as follows:
March 5 Mon
5 p.m. International Women’s Short Films: Mindy (USA), Visiting Hours ( Israel ), Sliding Flora ( Israel )
6:45 p.m. Opening Program with Diwata Awards for Women in Film and the 2nd Women’s Short Film Competition
7: 30 p.m. Opening Night Film: Sevigne ( Spain )
March 6 Tue
2 p.m. Amazones (The Netherlands )
5 p.m. Sevigne ( Spain )
7 p.m. La Pasion de Maria Elena ( Mexico )
March 7 Wed
10 a.m. onwards: Official Selection, 2nd Women’s Short Film Competition
2 p.m. Women Refigured Forum with screenings of 2nd Women’s Short Film Competition Winners
5 p.m. Inang Yaya ( Philippines )
7 p.m. Amazones (The Netherlands )
9 p.m. La Pasion de Maria Elena ( Mexico )
March 8 Thu
2 p.m. Digital Feature: Rome and Juliet ( Philippines )
4 p.m. International Women’s Short Films: A Sweet Scent of Mothballs (Serbia-Montenegro) , Stones Fall into a Shallowing Well ( Hungary ), Pangarap Ko Saluhin Mo ( Philippines )
5 p.m. Digital Feature: Mudraks ( Philippines )
7 p.m. Documentary Feature: Alyana ( Philippines ) to be preceded by the new short documentary Breaking Down the Barrier
To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute
e-group: upfilminstitute@ yahoogroups. com
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN
Monday to Saturday, March 5-10, 2007
This week’s Cinekatipunan features an eclectic mix of
foreign and local, full-length and short works. The
selection kicks off on Monday with the work Cries and
Whispers by Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman on
Monday. Tuesday, KODAO Productions features a short
documentary produced during the 2005 Hong Kong
demonstrations against the World Trade Organization.
Wednesday delves into art and fashion with a work by
German filmmaker Wim Wenders on Japanese fashion
designer Yohji Yamamoto on Wednesday. Mia Buenaventura
features her short films Gantsilyo and Leon on
Thursday while Emman dela Cruz features his
directorial debut Sarongbanggi on Friday. Saturday’s
program on campus-based film-makers features student
works from the Fine Arts Department of Kalayaan
College, selected by visual artist and teacher Jay
Ticar, and the Multi Media Arts Department of the
College of Saint Benilde, selected by teacher,
filmmaker, and Eksperimento film festival director
Elvert Banares.
5 March (Monday)
Ingmar Bergman: CRIES AND WHISPERS
Cries and Whispers
(1972, Sweden, 91mins)
Ingmar Bergman's dream play is set in a manor house at
the turn of the century where a spinster in her late
30s is dying. Her two sisters have come to attend her,
and they watch and wait, along with a peasant servant.
The movie is built out of a series of emotionally
charged images that express inner stress, and Bergman
handles them with the fluidity of a master. Superbly
photographed by in a style suggesting Edvard Munch,
and with blood-red backgrounds, the film is smooth and
hypnotic; it has oracular power and the pull of a
dream. Yet there's a 19th-century dullness at the
heart of it. Each sister represents a different aspect
of woman—woman viewed as the Other—and the film
mingles didacticism with erotic mystery.
6 March (Tuesday)
TUDLA Productions and KODAO Productions
DA DOU SAI MAU (Junk WTO)
January 2006 | 28:40 mins
(To be presented by Raymund Villanueva)
A documentary on the raging protests that filled Hong
Kong streets against the World Trade Organization's
Third Ministerial Meeting (2005). Bayan Muna Rep.
Teddy Casino explores Hong Kong and guides us to the
creative protest actions from delegates of different
countries.
KODAO Productions produces and distributes multimedia
and related materials on timely and relevant subjects
to promote the self-determining and democratic
struggle of the Filipino people for cultural,
political and economic development. Kodao produced the
award winning radio program, Ngayon Na, Bayan!, which
was cut off the air upon the proclamation of PP1017 in
February 2006.
7 March (Wednesday)
From Conrado's Cabinet:
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1991 | 80 mins | Road Movies Filmproduction GmBH
Berlin
German film maker Wim Wenders engages design maverick
Yohji Yamamoto in an articulate dialogue about the
rootless quality of our identities, cities and
fashion. Wenders incorporates a dizzying,nearly
discordant,and highly inventive array of video images
invading, breaking down and blocking out clear, crisp
film shots. The film is both a delightful and
despairing tour through the 20th century systemof
visual language with Wenders as a charming
philosophical guide.
8 March (Thursday)
Mia Buenaventura’s Short Films
Leon
A 7-minute experimental film that suggests a possible
ending to “The Prodigal Son” parable. The film
centers on the good son and how he resolves sibling
rivalry and sibling jealousy issues. Whereas evil can
turn to good, the good can just as easily turn to
evil. Ronnie Lazaro stars in the leading role.
Gantsilyo
The narrative DV movie tells of a grandmother whose
elaborate knitted creations affect the lives of her
family. Armed with her needles and balls of yarn,
Grandma employs time-weathered wisdom and loving hands
to heal hearts with every stitch. Gloria Romero plays
the lead role.
Mia Buenaventura is no newcomer in the indie movement.
Largely committed to the short film format, she has
done several shorts since college at the Ateneo where
she took up AB Communications. She wrote and directed
“Leon”, in 16-mm format and a Gawad-CCP winner, while
she was at Mowelfund. Her first narrative DV is
“Gantsilyo” starring Gloria Romero. “Gantsilyo” has
been screened at the “Pelikula at Lipunan Festival”
and at the U.P. Film Institute during the “Women
Filmmakers Festival”. The film was a Cinemalaya entry
and currently nominated for best short film in the
Cineaste Film Association of the Phils.’ Annie Awards.
Mia also did several AVPs and past Clients
include Coca-Cola and Gillette Philippines. A new
short film project is lined-up for 2007.
9 March (Friday)
Eman Dela Cruz: SARONGBANGGI
Sarongbanggi (One Night)
04 mins. color/sound NTSC video
An intense encounter between an aging prostitute and a
sixteen-year old boy in a night of seduction,
connections and revelations.
The night begins... A boy is celebrating his sixteenth
birthday with his rowdy group of friends who all agree
- there's no better gift to give him than his first
sexual experience. They book him a night with a
prostitute. The night grows deeper… The boy strikes an
unusual connection with a sensual but older woman.
What starts out casually turns intimate and
surprisingly tender. In this most unusual one night
stand the teenage boy loses his virginity and the more
experienced, toughened woman rediscovers her
vulnerability.
Sarong Banggi features a most memorable and riveting
performance by the luminous Jaclyn Jose, one of the
Philippines' truly great and most awarded actresses
(and who’s iconic fallen woman role in films like
“White Slavery,” and “Private Show” inspired and
informed the role of Jaclyn in this film) and an
exciting star turn by first-time actor Angelo Ilagan.
Written and directed by: Emmanuel A. Dela Cruz
Official Selection: ImaginAsian, New York and Cine
Asia, Barcelona, Spain
10 March (Saturday)
Campus-based Filmmakers
Featuring short works by KALAYAAN College Fine Arts
Majors and students from the Multi Media Arts
Department of the College of Saint Benilde
(selected by Jay Ticar and Elvert Banares)
This Saturday’s first batch from CSB features eight
works: Empathy for Emmanuel by Rafael de Leon;
Unforseen by Jason Confesor; Dalangin by Love
Nakagawa; Abo by Dino Mark Reyes; Sabaw by Anton
Miguel Halagena; Blindness Within by JR Siojo;
Paggising sa Mundong Tulog by Paolo Miguel Lopez; and
Tu(la)ya by Raine Orallo.
Four works produced by third year and second year
students from the Fine Arts department of Kalayaan
College under the Visual Studies and Art Theory class
of Jay Ticar: Sangandaan (2007, 8 mins.), a narrative
work by Gato Borrero about the personal crossroads
faced by a peasant boy: whether to migrate to the city
or to remain in the countryside; an 8-minute narrative
video about a tatoo by Camillo Guanzon; Hand-Droid (8
mins.), a documentary work by Dave Cuenca featuring
the production process of an abstract painting; and a
three-minute animation work by Angelo Alejandro.
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café
Katipunan,Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
While the film screenings are free, viewers are
encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured Filipino filmmakers. For
questions or comments about Cinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com. Cinekatipunan programs precede
Mag:net Café's nightly holding of Live Performances by
well-known and emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net
Café is located along Katipunan Avenue (fronting
Miriam and Ateneo) in Quezon City. For more inquiries
please call 9293191 or visit www.magnet.com.ph.
This week’s Cinekatipunan features an eclectic mix of
foreign and local, full-length and short works. The
selection kicks off on Monday with the work Cries and
Whispers by Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman on
Monday. Tuesday, KODAO Productions features a short
documentary produced during the 2005 Hong Kong
demonstrations against the World Trade Organization.
Wednesday delves into art and fashion with a work by
German filmmaker Wim Wenders on Japanese fashion
designer Yohji Yamamoto on Wednesday. Mia Buenaventura
features her short films Gantsilyo and Leon on
Thursday while Emman dela Cruz features his
directorial debut Sarongbanggi on Friday. Saturday’s
program on campus-based film-makers features student
works from the Fine Arts Department of Kalayaan
College, selected by visual artist and teacher Jay
Ticar, and the Multi Media Arts Department of the
College of Saint Benilde, selected by teacher,
filmmaker, and Eksperimento film festival director
Elvert Banares.
5 March (Monday)
Ingmar Bergman: CRIES AND WHISPERS
Cries and Whispers
(1972, Sweden, 91mins)
Ingmar Bergman's dream play is set in a manor house at
the turn of the century where a spinster in her late
30s is dying. Her two sisters have come to attend her,
and they watch and wait, along with a peasant servant.
The movie is built out of a series of emotionally
charged images that express inner stress, and Bergman
handles them with the fluidity of a master. Superbly
photographed by in a style suggesting Edvard Munch,
and with blood-red backgrounds, the film is smooth and
hypnotic; it has oracular power and the pull of a
dream. Yet there's a 19th-century dullness at the
heart of it. Each sister represents a different aspect
of woman—woman viewed as the Other—and the film
mingles didacticism with erotic mystery.
6 March (Tuesday)
TUDLA Productions and KODAO Productions
DA DOU SAI MAU (Junk WTO)
January 2006 | 28:40 mins
(To be presented by Raymund Villanueva)
A documentary on the raging protests that filled Hong
Kong streets against the World Trade Organization's
Third Ministerial Meeting (2005). Bayan Muna Rep.
Teddy Casino explores Hong Kong and guides us to the
creative protest actions from delegates of different
countries.
KODAO Productions produces and distributes multimedia
and related materials on timely and relevant subjects
to promote the self-determining and democratic
struggle of the Filipino people for cultural,
political and economic development. Kodao produced the
award winning radio program, Ngayon Na, Bayan!, which
was cut off the air upon the proclamation of PP1017 in
February 2006.
7 March (Wednesday)
From Conrado's Cabinet:
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1991 | 80 mins | Road Movies Filmproduction GmBH
Berlin
German film maker Wim Wenders engages design maverick
Yohji Yamamoto in an articulate dialogue about the
rootless quality of our identities, cities and
fashion. Wenders incorporates a dizzying,nearly
discordant,and highly inventive array of video images
invading, breaking down and blocking out clear, crisp
film shots. The film is both a delightful and
despairing tour through the 20th century systemof
visual language with Wenders as a charming
philosophical guide.
8 March (Thursday)
Mia Buenaventura’s Short Films
Leon
A 7-minute experimental film that suggests a possible
ending to “The Prodigal Son” parable. The film
centers on the good son and how he resolves sibling
rivalry and sibling jealousy issues. Whereas evil can
turn to good, the good can just as easily turn to
evil. Ronnie Lazaro stars in the leading role.
Gantsilyo
The narrative DV movie tells of a grandmother whose
elaborate knitted creations affect the lives of her
family. Armed with her needles and balls of yarn,
Grandma employs time-weathered wisdom and loving hands
to heal hearts with every stitch. Gloria Romero plays
the lead role.
Mia Buenaventura is no newcomer in the indie movement.
Largely committed to the short film format, she has
done several shorts since college at the Ateneo where
she took up AB Communications. She wrote and directed
“Leon”, in 16-mm format and a Gawad-CCP winner, while
she was at Mowelfund. Her first narrative DV is
“Gantsilyo” starring Gloria Romero. “Gantsilyo” has
been screened at the “Pelikula at Lipunan Festival”
and at the U.P. Film Institute during the “Women
Filmmakers Festival”. The film was a Cinemalaya entry
and currently nominated for best short film in the
Cineaste Film Association of the Phils.’ Annie Awards.
Mia also did several AVPs and past Clients
include Coca-Cola and Gillette Philippines. A new
short film project is lined-up for 2007.
9 March (Friday)
Eman Dela Cruz: SARONGBANGGI
Sarongbanggi (One Night)
04 mins. color/sound NTSC video
An intense encounter between an aging prostitute and a
sixteen-year old boy in a night of seduction,
connections and revelations.
The night begins... A boy is celebrating his sixteenth
birthday with his rowdy group of friends who all agree
- there's no better gift to give him than his first
sexual experience. They book him a night with a
prostitute. The night grows deeper… The boy strikes an
unusual connection with a sensual but older woman.
What starts out casually turns intimate and
surprisingly tender. In this most unusual one night
stand the teenage boy loses his virginity and the more
experienced, toughened woman rediscovers her
vulnerability.
Sarong Banggi features a most memorable and riveting
performance by the luminous Jaclyn Jose, one of the
Philippines' truly great and most awarded actresses
(and who’s iconic fallen woman role in films like
“White Slavery,” and “Private Show” inspired and
informed the role of Jaclyn in this film) and an
exciting star turn by first-time actor Angelo Ilagan.
Written and directed by: Emmanuel A. Dela Cruz
Official Selection: ImaginAsian, New York and Cine
Asia, Barcelona, Spain
10 March (Saturday)
Campus-based Filmmakers
Featuring short works by KALAYAAN College Fine Arts
Majors and students from the Multi Media Arts
Department of the College of Saint Benilde
(selected by Jay Ticar and Elvert Banares)
This Saturday’s first batch from CSB features eight
works: Empathy for Emmanuel by Rafael de Leon;
Unforseen by Jason Confesor; Dalangin by Love
Nakagawa; Abo by Dino Mark Reyes; Sabaw by Anton
Miguel Halagena; Blindness Within by JR Siojo;
Paggising sa Mundong Tulog by Paolo Miguel Lopez; and
Tu(la)ya by Raine Orallo.
Four works produced by third year and second year
students from the Fine Arts department of Kalayaan
College under the Visual Studies and Art Theory class
of Jay Ticar: Sangandaan (2007, 8 mins.), a narrative
work by Gato Borrero about the personal crossroads
faced by a peasant boy: whether to migrate to the city
or to remain in the countryside; an 8-minute narrative
video about a tatoo by Camillo Guanzon; Hand-Droid (8
mins.), a documentary work by Dave Cuenca featuring
the production process of an abstract painting; and a
three-minute animation work by Angelo Alejandro.
Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café
Katipunan,Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM.
While the film screenings are free, viewers are
encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured Filipino filmmakers. For
questions or comments about Cinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com. Cinekatipunan programs precede
Mag:net Café's nightly holding of Live Performances by
well-known and emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net
Café is located along Katipunan Avenue (fronting
Miriam and Ateneo) in Quezon City. For more inquiries
please call 9293191 or visit www.magnet.com.ph.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Instituto Cervantes film screenings
In the last few years, cinema done by Spanish women has grown notably, following a general trend in Spanish society. This cycle shows the work produced by five young Spanish female directors.
Film Cycle presented with the collaboration of Filmoteca AECI
Te doy mis ojos
Directed by Icíar Bollaín
Duration: 103 min.
Production: España, 2004
Cast:
Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña, Rosa María Sardá, Kity Manver, Sergi Calleja
In Spanish with English subtitles
Date: March 3
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
For Adults Only
Catch the movie that swept the Goya Awards (Spain's equivalent of the Oscars) of 2004! An award-winning tale of domestic abuse. Pilar is a terrified housewife on the run from husband Antonio and his regular outbursts of violent rage. Taking refuge with her sister Ana, she tries to build a new life - but she's still in love with the man who beat her. Te doy mis ojos is a powerful and moving look at the image of spousal abuse. Director and co-screenwriter Icíar Bollaín’s approach to the subject is excellent, giving it the respect and importance that it deserves.
El tren de la memoria
Directed by Marta Arribas, Ana Pérez
Duration: 80 min.
Production: España, 2005
Cast: Documentary
In Spanish with NO subtitles
Date: March 10
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Spain, 1960´s. Two million Spaniards leave the country forced by need. Destination: France, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Half of them are illegal immigrants who travel without a contract of employment. 80% of them are illiterate. They have to face the wall of different languages and habits. Spain, at present: other people in need knock on the doors of a prosperous nation. Almost nobody remembers the story. Josefina does. She keeps memory alive by her travel in the memory train. Destination: Nuremberg, Germany.
Cosas que nunca te dije
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Duration: 93 min.
Production: España, 1996
Cast:
Lili Taylor, Andrew McCarthy, Debi Mazar, Alexis Arquette, Leslie Mann, Richard Edson
In Spanish with English subtitles
Date: March 17
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Ann, a saleslady of a photography shop has moved to an unfamiliar city because she wants to be near her boyfriend Bob. One day he calls her to suddenly break-up with her. Ann, who is devastated, searches for a hotline desperate people and meets Don, a volunteer who sells houses and seems unable to understand her problems.
El alquimista impaciente
Directed by Patricia Ferreira
Duration: 111 min.
Production: España, 2002
Cast:
Ingrid Rubio, Roberto Enríquez, Chete Lera, Adriana Ozores, Miguel Ángel Solá
In Spanish with NO subtitles
Date: March 24
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
A cadaver of a man is found naked and tied to a bed in a drive-by motel. Vila, a disillusioned psychologist-turned-cop, accompanied by his female partner Chamorro, receives orders to investigate the death. They discover that he is a nuclear plant worker and head off to interview the victim’s his co-workers and wife. They found that he led a normal family life with young children and discovered that nobody seemed suspicious. The case is closed fairly quickly and ruled as an accident. It is re-opened however when the detectives discover the body of a woman who had been partially devoured by wolves and is believed to be connected to the man’s murder.
El cielo gira
Directed by Mercedes Alvarez
Duration: 115 min.
Production: España, 2004
Cast: Documentary
In Spanish with English subtitles
Date: March 31
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
This film tells of one year in the life of a tiny village in northern Spain depicting the ordinary lives of the elderly residents. This is first feature film documentary by Mercedes Alvarez, a promising Spanish female director who happens to have been born in the village where the picture is shot.
Opening Film at the 17th International Women Film Festival
Sévigné
Date: March 5
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Cine Adarna, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Free entrance
In Spanish with English subtitles
As the opening of the 17th International Women Film Festival, UP Film Institute and Instituto Cervantes are proud to premiere in the Philippines the Spanish film Sévigné.
The life of Júlia Berkowitz, a prestigious theatrical director living in Barcelona, takes an unexpected turn when she decides to stage a theatre play on Madam of Sévigné. Júlia discovers that she must choose between her husband —a respected and influential theatrical critic— her lover— the attractive producer of Public Theater— and Marina, the unforeseeable female author of the play on Madam of Sévigné.
Film Cycle presented with the collaboration of Filmoteca AECI
Te doy mis ojos
Directed by Icíar Bollaín
Duration: 103 min.
Production: España, 2004
Cast:
Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña, Rosa María Sardá, Kity Manver, Sergi Calleja
In Spanish with English subtitles
Date: March 3
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
For Adults Only
Catch the movie that swept the Goya Awards (Spain's equivalent of the Oscars) of 2004! An award-winning tale of domestic abuse. Pilar is a terrified housewife on the run from husband Antonio and his regular outbursts of violent rage. Taking refuge with her sister Ana, she tries to build a new life - but she's still in love with the man who beat her. Te doy mis ojos is a powerful and moving look at the image of spousal abuse. Director and co-screenwriter Icíar Bollaín’s approach to the subject is excellent, giving it the respect and importance that it deserves.
El tren de la memoria
Directed by Marta Arribas, Ana Pérez
Duration: 80 min.
Production: España, 2005
Cast: Documentary
In Spanish with NO subtitles
Date: March 10
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Spain, 1960´s. Two million Spaniards leave the country forced by need. Destination: France, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Half of them are illegal immigrants who travel without a contract of employment. 80% of them are illiterate. They have to face the wall of different languages and habits. Spain, at present: other people in need knock on the doors of a prosperous nation. Almost nobody remembers the story. Josefina does. She keeps memory alive by her travel in the memory train. Destination: Nuremberg, Germany.
Cosas que nunca te dije
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Duration: 93 min.
Production: España, 1996
Cast:
Lili Taylor, Andrew McCarthy, Debi Mazar, Alexis Arquette, Leslie Mann, Richard Edson
In Spanish with English subtitles
Date: March 17
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Ann, a saleslady of a photography shop has moved to an unfamiliar city because she wants to be near her boyfriend Bob. One day he calls her to suddenly break-up with her. Ann, who is devastated, searches for a hotline desperate people and meets Don, a volunteer who sells houses and seems unable to understand her problems.
El alquimista impaciente
Directed by Patricia Ferreira
Duration: 111 min.
Production: España, 2002
Cast:
Ingrid Rubio, Roberto Enríquez, Chete Lera, Adriana Ozores, Miguel Ángel Solá
In Spanish with NO subtitles
Date: March 24
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
A cadaver of a man is found naked and tied to a bed in a drive-by motel. Vila, a disillusioned psychologist-turned-cop, accompanied by his female partner Chamorro, receives orders to investigate the death. They discover that he is a nuclear plant worker and head off to interview the victim’s his co-workers and wife. They found that he led a normal family life with young children and discovered that nobody seemed suspicious. The case is closed fairly quickly and ruled as an accident. It is re-opened however when the detectives discover the body of a woman who had been partially devoured by wolves and is believed to be connected to the man’s murder.
El cielo gira
Directed by Mercedes Alvarez
Duration: 115 min.
Production: España, 2004
Cast: Documentary
In Spanish with English subtitles
Date: March 31
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes
This film tells of one year in the life of a tiny village in northern Spain depicting the ordinary lives of the elderly residents. This is first feature film documentary by Mercedes Alvarez, a promising Spanish female director who happens to have been born in the village where the picture is shot.
Opening Film at the 17th International Women Film Festival
Sévigné
Date: March 5
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Cine Adarna, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Free entrance
In Spanish with English subtitles
As the opening of the 17th International Women Film Festival, UP Film Institute and Instituto Cervantes are proud to premiere in the Philippines the Spanish film Sévigné.
The life of Júlia Berkowitz, a prestigious theatrical director living in Barcelona, takes an unexpected turn when she decides to stage a theatre play on Madam of Sévigné. Júlia discovers that she must choose between her husband —a respected and influential theatrical critic— her lover— the attractive producer of Public Theater— and Marina, the unforeseeable female author of the play on Madam of Sévigné.
Friday, March 2, 2007
UPFI this March
UP Film Institute this March
The UP Film Institute is proud to present a variety of screenings for March. Among the month’s highlights is the 17th International Women’s Film Festival slated from March 5 Monday to March 8 Thursday. Opening night film is Marta Balletbo-Coll’ s Sevigne. More women films include Amazones from Netherlands and La Pasion de Maria Elena from Mexico.
A spotlight on Canadian filmmakers Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy (on two consecutive Fridays of March 2 and 9) features documentaries filmed in Asia, the Middle East and Canada tracing the experiences of Philippine migrant workers and revealing the broader economic and social policies that dictate their deployment around the world.
An Italian cinema showcase is lined up for a couple of weekends on March 16 and 17 and March 23 and 24. Masterworks both of classic and current vintage are exhibited.
Added main features on view begin with the month’s opener, namely, Bill Condon’s Kinsey while surprise titles await film buffs for a “School Ends Special” to wrap up the current academic year.
Here is a roundup of UP Film Institute’s screenings this March:
March 1 Thu 5 p.m.
Kinsey
March 2 Fri 5 p.m. onwards
Turbulent Waters; Brown Women, Blond Babies
March 5 Mon-March 8 Thu
17th International Women’s Film Festival
March 9 Fri 5 p.m. onwards
Brown Women, Blond Babies; When Strangers Re-Unite; The Melca Salvador Story
March 10 Sat
Iranian Films
March 12 Mon-March 15 Thu 2/5/7 p.m.
Special Full Run: Inang Yaya
March 16 Fri 5/7 p.m.
Italian Films
March 17 Sat 2/5/7 p.m.
Italian Films
March 19 Mon 5 p.m.
Little Children
March 20 Tue 7 p.m.
Premiere: Digital Feature by Brillante Mendoza
March 21 Wed- March 22 Thu 2/5/7 p.m.
School Ends Special
March 23 Fri 5/7 p.m.
Italian Films
March 24 Sat 2/5/7 p.m.
Italian Films
March 26 Mon
9 a.m. onwards - Theses Day 1
5/7 p.m. School Ends Special
March 27 Tue
9 a.m. onwards - Theses Day 2
5/7 p.m. School Ends Special
March 28 Wed
10 a.m. onwards - Kodak Event
1 p.m. onwards - Reserved for Production Classes
5/7 p.m. School Ends Special
March 29 Thu 7 p.m.
School Ends Special
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University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
The UP Film Institute is proud to present a variety of screenings for March. Among the month’s highlights is the 17th International Women’s Film Festival slated from March 5 Monday to March 8 Thursday. Opening night film is Marta Balletbo-Coll’ s Sevigne. More women films include Amazones from Netherlands and La Pasion de Maria Elena from Mexico.
A spotlight on Canadian filmmakers Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy (on two consecutive Fridays of March 2 and 9) features documentaries filmed in Asia, the Middle East and Canada tracing the experiences of Philippine migrant workers and revealing the broader economic and social policies that dictate their deployment around the world.
An Italian cinema showcase is lined up for a couple of weekends on March 16 and 17 and March 23 and 24. Masterworks both of classic and current vintage are exhibited.
Added main features on view begin with the month’s opener, namely, Bill Condon’s Kinsey while surprise titles await film buffs for a “School Ends Special” to wrap up the current academic year.
Here is a roundup of UP Film Institute’s screenings this March:
March 1 Thu 5 p.m.
Kinsey
March 2 Fri 5 p.m. onwards
Turbulent Waters; Brown Women, Blond Babies
March 5 Mon-March 8 Thu
17th International Women’s Film Festival
March 9 Fri 5 p.m. onwards
Brown Women, Blond Babies; When Strangers Re-Unite; The Melca Salvador Story
March 10 Sat
Iranian Films
March 12 Mon-March 15 Thu 2/5/7 p.m.
Special Full Run: Inang Yaya
March 16 Fri 5/7 p.m.
Italian Films
March 17 Sat 2/5/7 p.m.
Italian Films
March 19 Mon 5 p.m.
Little Children
March 20 Tue 7 p.m.
Premiere: Digital Feature by Brillante Mendoza
March 21 Wed- March 22 Thu 2/5/7 p.m.
School Ends Special
March 23 Fri 5/7 p.m.
Italian Films
March 24 Sat 2/5/7 p.m.
Italian Films
March 26 Mon
9 a.m. onwards - Theses Day 1
5/7 p.m. School Ends Special
March 27 Tue
9 a.m. onwards - Theses Day 2
5/7 p.m. School Ends Special
March 28 Wed
10 a.m. onwards - Kodak Event
1 p.m. onwards - Reserved for Production Classes
5/7 p.m. School Ends Special
March 29 Thu 7 p.m.
School Ends Special
To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute
e-group: upfilminstitute@ yahoogroups. com
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)
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