Congratulations to Raya Martin of the UP Film Institute for winning the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema at the Cinemanila! I hope your BULUL statuette will be just enough encouragement to make you go full-speed ahead and chase the "Dream".
(Hay, the "Dream". If we young dreamers don't do anything to incarnate that "Dream" into reality, walang mangyayari sa atin...hanggang dreaming na lang tayo...kaya gawa na tayo ng pelikula!!! Hanap na tayo ng mga producers/sugar daddys! Hehe)
Sana rin hindi na ma-break ang successive "successes" ng UP Film students...sana mas marami pang student films ang mapansin at ma-awardan ng nararapat na karangalan (that is, kung karapat-dapat!).
I guess I'm impressed by the turnout of works from other schools besides UP and Mowel (the only institutions--supposedly--with actual film courses)--Ateneo and La Salle, to name a few. That's good, really, cause these are the peeps with the money to make films--money+talent+concrete film vision might just equate to a film that will go down in Filipino film history. Who knows, di ba? kaya kung may pera kayo, gumawa na kayo ng pelikula! Make sure lang na the concept is worth the money you'll be spending.
Went to YOUNG CINEMA NIGHT (screening of shorts in competition and for exhibition) last Thursday at Greenbelt 1 and was overwhelmed by the massive turnout. The theater was full. It was cool! Kung sana lang nagkaroon ng ganitong screening last year, maghahatak rin ako ng maraming kapartido, hehe.
some offhand notes on the films:
quezon city - julia clarete and eppy quizon do make a lovely pair. that's all.
egg - animation suspiciously resembles GARFIELD. i was a garfield fan so i should know how the artist drew the feet of all those chickens in ORSON'S farm. other than that, the film was fun.
bakasyon - i don't know who the filmmaker had in mind while he was making this film--ishmael bernal or mike de leon? it's rough around the edges, but for a first filmmaking effort, kudos to you RAYA.
homecoming - probably the one with the biggest impact on me, among the batch. congratulations to the two filmmakers who won BEST SHORT FILM for this edgy piece!
the bakery - sayang hindi kasali sa competition, coz i DID like this film. it can still be pushed, of course, for it to make a real statement, but as it is i found the film full of promise.
red saga - sayang di napalabas! was looking forward to it pa naman. why? basta. :-)
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