The speech of Cinemalaya Foundation Inc. chair Antonio “Tonyboy” Cojuangco at the close of the 8th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival on Sunday night left more questions than answers about the annual indie fete.
LAWRENCE Fajardo’s “Posas (Shackled),” best picture winner in the directors’ showcase section of this year’s Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, is being screened in commercial cinemas until Aug. 7. On Wednesday, “Posas” opened in Trinoma Cinema 3, SM Megamall Cinema 11 and SM North The Block Cinema 4. A searing critique of the country’s judicial [...]
Young actor Albie Casiño found himself in an unexpected situation when, recently, life imitated art. Casiño was beaten up by four men at the parking lot of a bar in Makati City a few days after he finished doing the movie, “The Animals.” The movie is about a group of rich high school kids who [...]
From July 23 at 3:30 p.m. to July 27, Cinemalaya 2012 will screen a long-forgotten experimental film, “Recuerdo of Two Sundays and Two Roads That Lead To The Sea,” at the CCP’s Dream Theater. Produced and edited by Bibsy Carballo, with script by Emmanuel Torres, cinematography by Romeo Vitug, music by Michael Dadap, and narration by Ray Pedroche, the “old” indie, which was produced in 1969, is part of the festival’s focus on early indie productions.“Recuerdo” tells the story of old Navotas, “. . . where the lives of its people are inexorably bound to the sea. It focuses on various funeral processions, some participated in by many mourners, others far more humble in comparison and contrast – to telling effect.”
When the latest edition of the Cinemalaya alternative film festival and competition opens later this month, movie buffs may be surprised to see so many stars topbilling or playing important roles in a number of its official entries.
A special film retrospective for the late filmmaker-playwright Mario O’ Hara is included in the 2012 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition, which will take place from July 20 to 29 in three venues, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Greenbelt 3 Makati and Trinoma Quezon city.
Three months after it was disqualified from competing at the annual Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, director Emerson Reyes announced that it’s a wrap for his controversial full-length feature “MNL 143.”
Raising the money to make indie films is a problem that filmmakers always wrestle with. But still they persist in what they do because they are happy with the results.
Independent filmmaker Eduardo Roy Jr. announced that MedWish International had agreed to donate medical supplies to Fabella Hospital after Roy’s movie “Bahay Bata” was screened at the recently concluded 36th Cleveland International Film Festival in Ohio. MedWish International is a nonprofit organization based in Cleveland that is committed to providing humanitarian aid to developing countries.
“Our goal is simply to help filmmakers create their dream movies,” said film producer Robbie Tan, in the hot seat because of the controversial disqualification of one finalist in the annual Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival.
“It’s refreshing, something ‘out of the box’ and I’m looking forward to it,” Judy Ann Santos said of the indie movie she is making with director Jose Javier Reyes. The award-winning mainstream actress stars in “Mga Mumunting Lihim,” an entry to the 2012 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival in July. It’s about a group of [...]
Independent filmmaker Ian Dean Loreños recounted how he stumbled on the story for his second movie, “Alagwa,” his follow-up to the 2010 Cinemalaya winner “The Leaving.” While shooting “The Leaving” in Binondo, Loreños decided to take a stroll on the streets of his childhood neighborhood “to destress.” Instead of calming down, he was agitated all [...]
