BUBOY Villar (left) and Allen Dizon in Derrick Cabrido’s “Children’s Show”
Two Filipinos won at the 35th Oporto (Portugal) International Film Festival or Fantasporto last Saturday.
Roderick Cabrido’s “Children’s Show” won the Special Jury Award in the Orient Express section and Richard Gomez won best actor in the Directors’ Week competition for Michael Tuviera’s “The Janitor.”
“Wow! This is beautiful news. God is good! It’s my first time to win in an international film fest,” Goma, as Gomez is known in local show biz, told the Inquirer upon learning of his victory.
“It was an unexpected blessing. It serves as inspiration for aspiring indie filmmakers and producers like me … that we can compete alongside foreign films,” Cabrido said. The jury called Cabrido’s film “surprising.” Both films are products of last year’s Cinemalaya. Bayani San Diego Jr.