Cinekatipunan

THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN
April 23 – 28, 2007

This weeks highlight is the finale of the three-week UNCENSORED BODIES Dance Map at Cinekatipunan/ Mag:net on Wednesday, April 25, in celebration of April as World Dance Month. The third screening features works on dance by Filipino filmmakers Sari Dalena, Kristine Mariel Icban, Carmi Garcia Raymundo, Alina Co, Malyn Punay, Romeo Candido, and Paul Morales, and short foreign contemporary dance films in the International Festival of Cinema and Technology (IFCT) Showcase. Myra Beltran and Cynthia Alexander will cap the night with a performance of the "Le Grand Tango" dance piece with violinist Alfonso "Coke" Bolipata and Pianist Jordan Fetalver and a performance with the World Dance Alliance, respectively. Asian dance films curated by Mervin Espina will open this week's program on Monday, April 23. To commemorate Cordillera Day 2007 is the Sinekalikasan program on Tuesday, April 24, featuring documentary works on Philippine environmental issues by New Zealand filmmaker Rod Prosser, Tan-Aw Multimedia Collective in Northern Luzon, and Tom Estrera III's work on the Agno River and the Ibaloi community. Thursday features three short works by awarded filmmakers Milo Sogueco and Peter Chua: Eroplano, Buwan, and Araw. The Harder They Come, a cult hit on reggae by Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell, caps Friday's program presented y Merv Espina, while poet and musician Jess Santiago on Saturday presents a video report on the song as venue for developmental education and people's advocacy in South East Asia.

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 http://us.f355.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=sinag_haraya%40yahoo.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 http://www.magnet.com.ph/.

APRIL 23 – 28 PROGRAM

April 23 (Monday)
ASIALunes: Asian Dance Films presented by Mervin Espina

April 24 (Tuesday)
SINEKALIKASAN: Environmental DocumentariesIn cooperation with Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment
The Green Guerillas: The Fight for the Philippine Rain Forest
Philippines/ Germany/New Zealand, 1995DV Video, 30 minutes, with subtitles Director: Rod ProsserProduction companies: Vanguard Films / WDR, Cologne
For many years after EDSA 1 in 1986, the world turned its eyes with interest on the Filipino people. In 1994, New Zealand filmmaker Rod Prosser was commissioned by German television to report on the efforts of the underground liberation movement to save the country's rainforest from the chainsaws of multinational timber corporations. The resulting film depicts the struggle of revolutionary guerillas together with the tribal people of south east Mindanao, the Mandaya, to enforce a regional ban on all commercial logging. It is a documentary which pushes the boundaries of the reportage form to present the fight for the environment from the perspective of indigenous revolutionaries.
Sabidong ti Balitok (Toxic Gold)
Philippines , 200522 minutes, with subtitles Directed by Judy Cariño and Emmanuel Palo, with Tan-aw Multimedia Collective, Save the Abra River Movement (STARM), Montanosa Relief and Rehabilitation Service (MRRS), Health Action and Information Network (HAIN). Sabidong Ti Balitok presents the effects of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company's operations on the water, earth, air and lives of people living along the Abra River. It tells the story of the fiery people's struggle against environmental destruction, corporate mining and the plunder of the people's resources.
Agos
Philippines 18 minutes, directed by Tomas Estrera III The filmmaker's undergraduate thesis at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and his first film work, Agos is a video documentary about the effects of the San Roque Multipurpose Dam project—the largest hydroelectric irrigation project in Asian history and the 12th highest dam of its kind in the world—on the Ibaloi Community and the Agno River in Northern Philippines.

April 25 (Wednesday)
UNCENSORED BODIES: A Dance On Screen Series

Sari Dalena: THE WHITE FUNERAL
Kristine Mariel Icban and Carmi Garcia Raymundo: DANCESPORT
Alina Co and Malyn Punay: PIROUETTE
Romeo Candido: KA-AMULAN (An excerpt for the documentary "DANCERS! PICK UP YOUR BAMBOO)
Paul Morales with MYRA BELTRAN, AIR DANCE performance (9 PM)
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Foreign contemporary dance films in collaboration with the International Festival of Cinema and Technology (IFCT) Showcase (Website: http://www.ifct.org/ifctscheduledance.html)
Wings of Legacy
Directed by Neeta Mittal, USA"Wings of Legacy" is the story of two women from a world full of movement and a heart of dance that has no boundaries. "Hip-hop and ballet were chosen as motifs to represent the contradictory entities ofyouth and wisdom, ability and disability, life and death."
Desperate Horsewife
Directed by Paul Lazarus, USA
Parody of a musical theatre film involving an unconventional love triangle.
Tiny Dancer
Directed by Stefan Georgiou, UK
Very rarely do dreams actually come true but that doesn't make it wrong to have them. How do you dealwith not doing what you love? You Do It.
Contrapunto
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jacquet, USA/FranceHand-drawn animation of a dancing couple in Buenos Aires, exploring the details of the tango.
The Double Woman
Directed by Carla B Guttmann, Germany
The Double Woman is a film about a modern dancer who confronts her childhood in a haunting, carnal dance. As she contorts and moves her body, childhood ghosts and memories are released. It is a film about the secrets the body hides and how one woman frees herself through movement.
Hand Sum
Directed by Eva Colmers, Canada
Miro moves through life without much conviction until a magical incident helps her escape her daily routine.

April 26 (Thursday)
Milo Sogueco and Peter Chua: SHORT FILMS
Milo Sogueco: EROPLANO
Milo Sogueco is an independent filmmaker and photographer, who won Grand Prize in the 2004 Gawad CCP for feature film. "Groovy: The Colors of Pacita Abad".
Peter Chua: BUWAN (1999)-Winner, Committee for Competitive Grants, National Commission for Culture and the Arts-Winner, 2nd Best Short Feature in Film, Gawad CCP para sa Alternibong Pelikula at Video-Winner, Ishmael Bernal Award, Cinemanila International Film Festival 2000Peter Chua: ARAW (2001)-Winner, Committee for Competitive Grants, NCCA

April 27 (Friday)
REEL REGGAE Program: THE HARDER THEY COME
Presented by Merv Espina
HARDER THEY COME
Directed by Perry Henzell, Jamaica, 1972
Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling this soundtrack with classics from Toots & The Maytals ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), Desmond Dekker ("Shanty Town"), The Melodians ("Rivers of Babylon"), and the Slickers ("Johnny Too Bad"). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ("You Can Get It If You Really Want") and last ("The Harder They Come") words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring "Many Rivers to Cross." --Sam Sutherland
The Harder They Come was a cult hit when it was released 30 years ago. Along with Bob Marley, the film and its soundtrack helped introduce reggae music to America and the rest of the world.

April 28 (Saturday)
Jess Santiago: A VILLAGE IN THE MAKING
A video report on song as venue for developmental education and people's advocacy in Okinawa, ChiangMai, and Yogyakarta
JESUS M. SANTIAGO a.k.a. Jess Santiago is a poet, singer, songwriter, cultural organizer, musical scorer, translator, editor, newspaper columnist, development worker, trainer, and book designer. The film is a product of Santiago's study as a fellow of The Nippon Foundation's Asian Public Intellectuals (API) Fellowship Program.