Lav Diaz discusses latest opus, Cannes, ‘aesthetics’
By Totel V. de Jesus
Humanity is still barbaric and aim of cinema is to help in its perfection.
Humanity is still barbaric and aim of cinema is to help in its perfection.
If Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” had Kim Novak, Lino Brocka’s “Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag” had Hilda Koronel.
Once a year, this sleepy resort town south of France transforms into a “mecca for cineastes,” in the words of internationally acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz.
Myx TV announces its partnership with the 29th edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) presented by Visual Communications that runs from May 2-12 at the Directors Guild of America, CGV Cinemas in Koreatown, the Tateuchi Democracy Forum in Little Tokyo.
Seven Filipino films will be screened at the Across Asia Film Festival from May 15-17 in Cagliari, Italy.
Five independent filmmakers will each get a cash grant of P2 million from the organizers of the annual Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival, according to festival director Ronald Arguelles.
Ian Loreños’ “Alagwa (Breakaway)” will be screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival, to be held in Orange County, California, from April 25 to May 2. Loreños told the Inquirer that “Alagwa” is the lone Filipino film competing with hundreds of entries from all over the world.
Filipino filmmaker Khavn De la Cruz’s “Mondomanila” won two special mention honors — best feature and best director — at the 5th Bangalore Queer Film Festival in India.
Jun Robles Lana’s “Kuwentong Barbero (Barber’s Tales)” won four honors at the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF): the HAF, ARRI, Technicolor Asia and Catapooolt awards. In sum, Lana’s film brought home “over P2 million” worth of prizes at the HAF, according to Perci Intalan, producer of “Barber’s Tales.”
A French-Senegalese director’s film about a man who knows he will die at the end of the day took the top prize Saturday at Africa’s largest film festival, Fespaco in Burkina Faso.
Filipino filmmaker Jun Robles Lana’s “Bwakaw” will compete for the Regard d’Or, or the Grand Prize, at the Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland, to be held March 16 to 23. According to the festival site, the Cinemalaya film “rests largely on the shoulders of Eddie Garcia,” who plays a grumpy old gay man who finds a loyal companion in his pet dog.
Relatives of the young Afghan star of “Buzkashi Boys” expressed more pride than disappointment upon learning on Monday that the Oscar-nominated movie didn’t win.
