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