Even if they were having problems with their roaming cell phone service, Filipino filmmakers Senedy Que, Jun Robles Lana, Chris Martinez and Alemberg Ang flooded Facebook and Twitter with updates on the 7th Asian Film Awards held in Hong Kong on Monday night. Thanks to these intrepid indie directors, the Inquirer and the rest [...]
Apart from Chris Martinez’s movie musical “I Do Bidoo Bidoo,” two horror flicks—Erik Matti’s “Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles” and Lawrence Fajardo’s “The Strangers”—will also be screened at the Far East Film Festival, to be held in Udine, Italy from April 19 to 27. Joji Alonso, producer of “The Strangers,” relayed the news to the Inquirer this week.
Filipino filmmaker Chris Martinez’s musical “I Do Bidoo Bidoo” will compete in the 8th Osaka Asian Film Festival in Japan from March 8 to 17. Produced by Unitel and Studio 5, “I Do Bidoo” features the songs of the Apo Hiking Society and topbills Gary Valenciano, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Eugene Domingo and Ogie Alcasid. The [...]
Creating the musical “I Do Bidoo Bidoo: Heto nAPO Sila” was such a challenge that it took writer-director Chris Martinez over a year to finish the script and about five years to develop the film. “Ito na ang pinakamatagal kong isinulat (It took me the longest time to write this script),” Martinez told the [...]
A few minutes before winning people’s choice favorite actress at the 6th Asian Film Awards (AFA), Filipino comedienne Eugene Domingo had gotten comfortable with the idea of losing. “I was [quite content] with the hospitality extended by the organizers,” she told Inquirer in an e-mail. Domingo (who won for Marlon Rivera’s “Ang Babae sa Septic [...]
Two Filipino actresses quite literally stopped the show at the 6th Asian Film Awards (AFA), considered the region’s Oscars, held Monday night at the Grand Theater of the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center.
In 2006, the music of the Apo Hiking Society took center stage in “Kami nAPO Muna”—a chart-topping compilation album of the pop trio’s biggest hits, covered by the country’s hottest contemporary bands. This year, another tribute to the enduring music of Danny Javier, Boboy Garovillo and Jim Paredes is in the works—a two-hour musical film, [...]
Apart from the two nominations of Marlon Rivera’s “Ang Babae sa Septic Tank,” another Filipino, theater stalwart Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino, clinched a best supporting actress nod, for “Niño,” in the 6th Asian Film Awards.
Filmmaker Chris Martinez and comic Eugene Domingo wanted a change of pace.
“It’s a film within a film,” said writer Chris Martinez of “Ang Babae sa Septic Tank,” which chronicles a day in the life of three ambitious, passionate but misguided filmmakers as they set out to make their dream movie. As Rainier, Bingbong and Jocelyn discuss the story, the movie is reborn in Jocelyn’s imagination several [...]
