CARLO Francisco Manatad’s “Sandra” will compete at the 32nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival in Germany, from May 31 to June 6. The 15-minute film is “based on a viral video of teenage girls fighting in the streets of Manila,” Manatad told the Inquirer. “Sandra” will be up against 35 films from different countries, including the United States, Palestine, Taiwan, Vietnam, Canada, Serbia and France.
Manatad also directed the short film “Junilyn Has,” which won second prize at the International Kansk Video Festival in Russia last year.
According to the fest’s website, the event “celebrates short films as an independent art form and offers opportunities for filmmakers from all over the world to get in touch with audiences and each other.” The fest believes that “no other form of cinematic art is as open, experimental, fast, courageous, abstract, hard, discursive or reactive as the short film.” Bayani San Diego Jr.