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11th Cinemanila International Filmfest is on!

Posted by Norman on October 20, 2009
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The 11th edition of Cinemanila International Film Festival has officially started last October 15 and will run up to October 25. Main venue of the film showings is at the Market! Market! Cinemas at Bonifacio Global City in Taguig with pocket screenings at Fully Booked Taguig’s U-View and the open-air outdoor field of Bonifacio High Street.

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Due to the rich harvest of Filipino independent films for the past few years till now, the opening and closing films are locally-made. Cannes 2000 Best Director Brillante Mendoza’s Lola opened the festival last week, while Cannes 2000 Palme D’Or (Short Film) winner Raymond Red’s Himpapawid will close the same this coming weekend.

There are several sections to choose movies to watch, namely, the Main Competition, SEA (Southeast Asian) Competition, Digital Lokal, World Cinema, Asian Cinema, World Cinema Fund, Three from Mexico, Singapore Cinema Today, Documentary, Special Screenings, Critics’ Picks and Sights & Signs.

The Main Competition is the most interesting part of the festival, where eleven movies are in contention and they are:
independenciaposterIndependencia (Philippines/Germany/France/Netherlands) 77 minutes

mammothMammoth (Sweden) 125 minutes

rickyRicky (France) 90 minutes

tulpanTulpan (Kazakhstan) 100 minutes

chengdu i love yu poster 2Cheng Du, I Love You (China) 78 minutes

samson-and-delilahSamson and Delilah (Australia) 101 minutes

hunger-poster-1Hunger (UK) 96 minutes

tonymaneroTony Manero (Chile/Brazil) 98 minutes

pandorasboxPandora’s Box (Turkey/France/Germany/Belgium) 112 minutes

milkofsorrowMilk of Sorrow (Peru) 95 minutes

machanMachan (Italy/Sri Lanka) 109 minutes

There are some very noteworthy flicks in competition that I would really like to watch like “Mammoth” and “Ricky” being a fan of both Gael Garcia Bernal and French Director Francois Ozon. But other than the 11 movies above, I am just as interested in two of the World Cinema picks, “Coco Avant Chanel” which stars one of my favorites, Audrey Tautou plus Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno which won the Orizzonti Section of the recently-concluded Venice Filmfest.

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Here are the ticket infos:

Regular Admission: PHP 120.00
Students: PHP 100.00
Senior Citizen: 20% off Regular Ticket Price
Premiere Screenings: PHP 200.00
Manila Meets Paul Schrader: PHP 250.00
Tickets can be bought in advance through Cinemanila at the Cinemanila Secretariat.
Gold Tickets are priced at PHP 950.00 each and is equivalent to 8 films and the Master Class with Paul Schrader.

So to all film buffs out there, troop to the Market! Market! Cinemas this week to catch these movies and more before the tickets run out!

“Independencia” wins in Bangkok Int’l Filmfest!

Posted by Norman on October 3, 2009
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“Independencia”, a period black-and-white film directed by Raya Martin and which competed in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes 2009 copped two awards in the recently-concluded Bangkok International Film Festival. It was declared Grand Prize winner in the Southeast Asian Category, aside from getting the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Jury Prize.

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The film, which stars Sid Lucero, Tetchie Agbayani, Alessandra de Rossi and Mika Aguilos, is actually an experimental piece that follows a mother and son who flee to the mountains to escape the harsh realities of war. Through the years, their lives remained peaceful until the arrival of a mysterious woman (de Rossi) whom the son (Lucero) ended falling up in love with and the two of them started a family to the ignominy of the mother (Agbayani).

The Grand Prize Southeast Asia award was netted by the movie “for its strong cinematic expression. The film is visually adventurous with humor, expressing historical aspects while also very friendly to the audience.” Furthermore, it won the NETPAC Jury Prize “for its cinematic creation exploring the history of the Philippines and the history of Philippine cinema within the limited space and a few characters.”

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On the other hand, another Pinoy movie – “Imburnal” (Sewer) by Sherad Anthony Sanchez – was given a Special Mention citation in the same filmfest “for putting together a very risky concept with complicated sociopolitical background, and for the director’s courage and bravery.”

Congratulations to Directors Raya Martin and Sherad Anthony Sanchez!

Source: PEP.ph