EDSA on my Mind – The Grantees of EDSAngangdaan: The EDSA Stories Film Festival
Who are the filmmakers whose works will be exhibited at EDSAngangdaan: The EDSA Stories Film Festival, on December 7 at the UP Film Center and December 8 at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani auditorium?
They make, naturally enough, for a diverse bunch. Here we have teachers and writers, university students, freelancers and full-fledged professionals. Then, of course, are their films themselves. A smattering of fiction films on this side, a semi-biography on the other. Some works are documentaries, whereas another visibly caricatures the documentary form. A number of productions share the stories of women who were embroiled in the storm and stress of EDSA 1986. Others probe into the lives of haves and have-nots closer to the present time.
Ma. Angela Garrido has been making films professionally since 2004. In the course of her work, she has created videos and films for the international organization Oxfam, the government agency National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Cinemalaya, as well as for business groups such as SM. Since 2005, she has also been the president and organizer of the art film festival of the Philippine Women’s University Independent Film Group. In her film “1985,” a woman loses her husband and is permanently scarred by a hot oil spill amidst the EDSA uprising. Nine years after, having given birth to a son, she tries to come to terms with her losses.
Hubert Tibi, who usually collaborates with Garrido, previously won the Best Screenplay prize in the short film category of the 2006 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival for “Parang Pelikula.” He also directed other Cinemalaya short films like “Maikling Kuwento,” “Si Bok at ang Trumpo,” and “Hay Pinhod Oh Ya Scooter.” For EDSAngangdaan, he directed “Mani,” where two teenage peanut peddlers struggle to make ends meet until they discover that stealing metal railings along EDSA can be more lucrative than their current trades. The biggest catch of all, it seems, is nothing less than pilfering the railings along the historic EDSA Shrine.
Meanwhile, Eva Aurora Callueng is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the University of the Philippines College of Education. She also teaches at the University of the East and works on various projects related to reproductive health with the Probe Media Foundation, while serving as the editor of the Pinoy LGBT (lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender) channel at Philippine Online Chronicles. Her documentary film “Kaba, Takot at Pangamba ng EDSA” narrates the stories and perspectives of the mothers and wives of soldiers in the three EDSA protest movements, and explores the influence of these women throughout the duration of these events.
Representing the youth sector are Andrea Regine Reyes and her teammates JJ Collins, Randy Valdez, Vianca Baliao, Christa Balonkita, Marj Calingo, Dek Carillo, Mia Sinagunian and Ada Umali, students taking up different courses at Miriam College. In their short film “Bagong Buhay,” a mother and her daughter leave their old home and try to build a new life together. Over the years, however, the mother’s unending pursuit of perfection takes its toll on her daughter, putting their relationship on a collision course.
Then there is the team of producer Eloisa Espino-Sanchez and award-winning filmmaker Richard Soriano Legaspi, who wrote and directed the Cinema One Originals Special Jury Prize and Audience Award winner “Paano Ko Sasabihin?” Espino-Sanchez has already produced a number of award-winning short films and documentaries. Legaspi teaches video production and advertising at the University of the East College of Fine Arts and was a fellow of the 2007 Asian Film Academy in Busan, South Korea. They teamed up again in “Pamatid-Gutom,” (Hunger Pangs), a stark rendition of electoral politics in post-EDSA. Mercedes Cabral plays the role of a mother, desperate to feed her child, who takes part in the feeding program of a city mayor, yet ends up being used by the politician and his wife for his electoral campaign promotions.
Finally, Seymour Sanchez is a director and writer of Red Room Media Productions and a Mass Communication professor. He won the grand prize for his short film “Lababo” (Kitchen Sink) and third place for “Shorts” in two Viva – Pinoy Box Office Digitales short film contests and topped the screenplay category of the 2009 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for “Hiwaga” (Mystery). His “Patron ng Laging Saklolo” (Patronage Politics) is a “mockumentary” (mock documentary) of enduring patterns of patronage politics in the Philippines. It chronicles the activities of a barangay throughout typical election season. By examining the fiesta mentality of Filipinos, and their attitudes towards politics, several gripping comparisons will be drawn.
What weaves all of their works together is their unremitting focus on EDSA, and the society that has arisen around EDSA – present-day Philippines. Funded by the EDSA Mo, EDSA Ko! Film Grants extended by Focus on the Global South-Philippines earlier this year, they have been tasked to produce short films on a theme no less ambitious than “Reimagining EDSA” – for a new generation of Filipinos, and according to the experiences of that generation.
In EDSAngangdaan: The EDSA Stories Film Festival all these retellings of EDSA will be presented to the general public for the first time ever. Where from and where to with EDSA? – join the filmmakers as they take us to the crossroads, exploring these and other questions.
Not to be outdone, Focus is coming out with its own documentary entitled “EDSAngangdaan: Mga Kwento ng Pagtatagpo’t Pagpapasya.” Twenty five years after EDSA, the project follows a farmer, a university student and a laundrywoman as they seek to connect the circumstances of their everyday lives with the broader historical phenomenon of EDSA. The conclusions that they make, and the questions that they raise, are not always flattering or reassuring.
EDSAngangdaan: The EDSA Stories Film Festival officially opens on December 7, 4 p.m. at the University of the Philippines Film Center, as part of its annual Cine Veritas Human Rights Film Festival. Alongside the six short films and Focus’ documentary, in-depth discussions of their content will also take place on the second screening day, December 8, beginning 9:30 a.m., at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani auditorium in Quezon City.
For more information about EDSAngangdaan: The EDSA Stories Film Festival please email Jerik Cruz at jerik.cruz@ph.focusweb.org, or call at 4330899 or 433-3387. Alternatively, please check the EDSA Stories website for updates at http://edsastories.focusweb.org/.
Projects for the 3rd Produire au Sud Film Workshop Bangkok
As part of the World Film Festival of Bangkok, Produire au Sud is a biennial workshop in which indie producers and directors get a chance to talk with industry figures about their films and how to get funding for them. This year’s Produire au Sud Bangkok workshop will be held from October 29 to November 1. Six projects have been chosen: Read more
Seven days of indie movies at .MOV International Digital Film Festival
The Daily Tribune
09/26/2008
If filmmakers could rewrite The Creation of the World, a lot of things would certainly change — it would be in digital format, black and white, linear, deleted scenes, re-takes and extras. But it would still begin with “Let there be light” — followed by camera and action. Read more
“Ambulancia” short film wins best editing in Italy
Yehey.com
3 September 2008 | 8:57 AM
Anna Isabelle Matutina won the Miglior Montaggio or Best Editing Award for Richard Legaspi’s short film “Ambulancia” at the 14th San Gio International Video Festival held recently in the Courtyard of the Old Court, Scaligeri Palaces of Verona, Italy. Read more
“Shorts” to compete in Thailand
“Shorts,” a short film about a young copywriter/production designer who seems to have gone crazy, will compete in the 12th Thai Short Film and Video Festival, which will run from August 29 to September 14 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Pathumwan Junction. Read more
Pinoy environmental documentaries compete in 10th Eco-Etno-Folk Romania
“Bodong (Pactul de Pace / Peace Pact),” an environmental and cultural
documentary from advocacy filmmaker Seymour Barros Sanchez, and “Bunker 0: Sumirib Plus (Buncarul 0: Sumirib Plus),” a documentary on the Guimaras oil spill by Jan Philippe “JP” V. Carpio, will compete at the 10th International Festival Eco-Etno-Folk Fil from September 2 to 7 at the Slatioara Village, Valcea County in Romania. Read more
First Filipino entry in “Woodstock of short films”
“Ambulancia, ” a short film written, directed, and produced by Richard
Legaspi, will compete and have its German premiere at the 32nd Open-
Air Film Festival Weiterstadt, which will take place from August 14
to 18 on the arcadian site of the Braunshardter Taennchen. Read more
“Ambulancia, ” “Shorts” in UK’s Bite the Mango Film Festival
Richard Legaspi’s “Ambulancia” and Seymour Barros Sanchez’s “Shorts” were selected for screening in the Bite the Mango Film Festival which will run from September 19 to 25 at the National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Read more
After their successful screening last month at the Robinson’s Galleria, Indie Sine, the Katorse Writers Group will have a special screening in this year’s Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. Read more
Finally, A Dedicated Program of Shorts on the Big Screen
By: Rianne Hill Soriano | YEHEY! Contributors
1 July 2008 | 9:12 AM
A selection of 7 short films by the Katorse Writers Group (batch 14 workshoppers
of Ricky Lee’s f scriptwriting workshops) graces Robinson’s Galleria’s Indie Sine with “Katorse Shorts,” a selection of 7 short films in a dedicated program normally given to full-length films only. Read more
Watch the Katorse Shorts Opening Night. Video coverage and post-production by Pixel Art Media Productions. More
‘Katorse Shorts’: The long and short of it
By RAMIL DIGAL GULLE
abs-cbnNEWS.com
Watching “Katorse Shorts”, an omnibus of short films produced by the Katorse Writers’ Group, “a group of young writer-filmmakers who were part of Ricky Lee’s 14th Scriptwriting Workshop”—as they describe themselves—one realizes how many films would have been better had they been shorter. Read more
“Puwang” is best seen this Father’s Day, June 15
Jocelyn Dimaculangan
Sunday, June 15, 2008, 11:25 AM
Philippine Entertainment Portal
One of the seven short films included in Katorse Shorts is a poignant and starkly real look into a family on the verge of falling apart in the face of impending death. Read more
Roundup
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:16:00 06/15/2008
MANILA, Philippines – Ongoing until June 17 at the Robinsons Galleria IndieSine are the screening of the following short films under the “Katorse Shorts” program: Read more
Complete list of RP movies in Paris Cinema
By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 22:46:00 06/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) has relayed to Inquirer Entertainment the complete list of 46 Filipino films that will be featured in the Philippine program of the Festival Paris Cinema from July 1 to 13. Read more
Jaymee stars in new short film ‘Walong Linggo’
People’s Journal
June 10, 2008 06:34 PM Tuesday
Games Uplate Live host Jaymee Joaquin pairs up with Joey Santos in Anna Isabelle Matutina’s latest short film, “Walong Linggo (Eight Sundays).” Read more
Six Degrees of Separation in Viva PBO Digitales 2
By: Seymour Barros Sanchez | Yehey.com
10 June 2008 | 9:04 AM
When Pinoy Box Office (PBO), Viva Productions’ Pinoy movie channel, announced the finalists to its Digitales 2 short film competition, I was not only delighted that my entry “Shorts” made it again to the finals after my first short film “Lababo” won the Digitales grand prize last year. What thrilled me more is the fact that the other six finalists are connected to me in one way or another. Read more
PBO DIGITALES grand prize winners in KATORSE SHORTS, June 11-17
Seymour Barros Sanchez’s “Lababo” (Kitchen Sink) and Richard
Legaspi’s “Ambulancia” (Ambulancia), grand prize winners of Pinoy Box
Office (PBO) Digitales 1 and 2, respectively, will be screened with
five other short films at Robinsons Galleria Indie Sine/ Cinema 8 as
part of the KATORSE SHORTS program from June 11 to 17. Read more
“Katorse Shorts” to be screened at IndieSine, June 11-17
Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 12:57 PM
Philippine Entertainment Portal
For too long, short films have remained the forgotten art form; a consistently underrated medium that has never been given the exposure it demands. Even with the emerging popularity of independent films in the Philippines, short films are still seen as “front acts” for full-length features or “sidebars” at local film festivals. Read more
Katorse Shorts to be screened at Indie Sine
by Seymour Barros Sanchez
“There must be something wrong with the film culture when, in light of the Cannes selections this year, nobody seems to acknowledge the fact that aside from Brocka, there was the brilliant Raymond Red who not only was in competition for Palme d’Or in 2000 with the short film “Anino,” but also is the first Filipino ever to win one. Before we start claiming those other new firsts…” Thus, posted young, award-winning independent filmmaker Raya Martin at the Cinemanila egroup, perhaps in disgust with the shameful slip. Read more
Ricky Lee Workshoppers Reunite
March 9, 2008
Writers’ Studio (WS), the non-profit organization spearheaded by award-winning and world-class writer, Ricky Lee, had successfully celebrated their reunion last April 5 at his residence in Xavierville, Katipunan.
RP film Ambulancia competes in Greek film fest
05/08/2008 | 10:15 PM
GMANews.TV
Filipino character actor Allan Paule and theater regular Nor Domingo star in Ambulancia, a short film that has been chosen to compete in the 5th Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival in Greece. Allan is also nominated for Best Actor in the fiction category of the said film fest. Read more
Richard Legaspi’s “Ambulancia” wins best short in filmfest for health
26 February 2008 | 8:57 AM
“Ambulancia,” a short film which tells of a painful twist in an ambulance driver’s belief that a dying patient can be saved by running over stray animals on the streets, won best short narrative in the first Quisumbing-Escandor Film Festival for Health held at the Philamlife Center for the Arts, United Nations Avenue, Manila last February 21, Thursday night. Read more
Asie Expo : 13ème Festival Cinémas et Cultures d’Asie
HKMANIA.com le 05-11-2007
La 13ème édition édition du Festival Cinémas et Cultures d’Asie aura lieu cette semaine à Lyon, du 6 au 11 novembre…
Cette édition 2007 comportera 50 courts et long-métrages provenant de 12 pays (dont 10 premières internationales ou européennes et 20 inédits et avant-premières). Read more
GROUNDBREAKING INDEPENDENT FILMS COMPETE FOR CINEMALAYA 2006
MANILA, JULY 7, 2006 (MALAYA) EIGHTEEN new independent digital films will compete in the 2006 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition on July 17 to 23 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Cinemalaya short films to be shown on Mindanao film fest
Sun Star Davao
November 26, 2005
A TOTAL of six short film entries to the recent Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival will be exhibited during the upcoming Mindanao Film Festival slated this coming December 4-11 at the Gaisano Mall cinemas. Read more
by Sofia Guillermo (Business Mirror)
WHEN ONE SPEAKS OF A “GOLDEN AGE” OF PHILIPPINE CINEMA, one invariably looks back with nostalgia at the Seventies and Eighties when the likes of Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal made films that mirrored the realities of those troubled times. Now, over twenty years later, Brocka and Bernal have long been gone and the times are troubled still. Read more
By Gabby Libarios
Manila Standard Today,
July 14, 2005
There’s no one to blame for the condition of the movie industry than the proliferation of soap operas on television.
That’s what three young independent filmmakers—Sunshine Matutina, Pamela Miras, Lawrence Fajardo—said in reply to the issue of the state of the ailing Filipino movie industry. Read more
The independent women of Cinemalaya
The Manila Bulletin
July 5, 2005
“The good thing about indepedent cinema is that it’s not a business. We don’t consider what we can get in return. Para siyang bisyo – napakamahal na bisyo. (It’s like a vice – a very expensive vice).”
This statement encapsulates the passion and commitment for filmmaking of six women who were hailed as finalists for the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition, slated July 12-17, at the CCP. Read more
TV Editor Makes Dream Come True
Sun Star Manila, July 13 2005
When Anna Isabelle “Sunshine” Matutina, a freelance editor for TV shows and digital films, completed the final cut of “Panaginipan” (The Dreaming) after graduating from the Mowelfund Film Institute last year, she heaved a sigh of relief that she finally has a short film that she can call her own. However, when her directorial debut made it as a finalist in the short film category of the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival 2005, she was doubly ecstatic. Read more
RICKY LEE’S LATEST WORKSHOP BATCH GRADUATES
Seymour Barros Sanchez, Contributor
March 6, 2003
Since acclaimed writer Ricky Lee started holding free scriptwriting workshops to selected individuals more than 20 years ago, he has successfully helped several aspiring writers enter the competitive world of cinema and television with the scripts they had subsequently completed. Read more
66 participants
Posted:7:58 PM (Manila Time) | Feb. 15, 2002
Inquirer News Service
Out of 753 applicants to Ricky Lee’s 14th Scriptwriting Workshop for Film and TV, 66 have been chosen. They will be divided into two batches. Sessions will start on Feb. 16 and 17, respectively. The workshop is for free. Read more
BATCH 14 
Dear friend and colleague,
The Matsalu Nature Film Festival would like to invite you to an international nature film festival being held in Estonia September 17–21 2008. Please share this invitation with your colleagues!
The first international Matsalu Nature Film Festival took place in Lihula in Western Estonia in October 2003. In 2007, 140 films from 40 different countries from all around the world were sent to the competition.
The Festival is named after the nearby Matsalu National Park, one of Europe’s biggest bird sanctuaries and a wetland environment of global significance.
This year’s films will be entered in one of two categories:
A. Nature
B. Man in nature
Our festival differs from others in that we include nature photographers in our events and organize nature photography exhibitions. Both professional and amateur photographers are welcome to share their photographs and experiences, meet colleagues and learn from each other.
Welcome to the 6th Matsalu Nature Film Festival!
Yours sincerely,
Tiit Mesila,
Festival director
Dear friends,
The Torino Film Festival’s director Nanni Moretti invites submissions for the 26th edition (November 21st – 29th, 2008).
We remember you that we can accept feature films, documentaries and short films in our various sections.
The deadlines are: August 29th, 2008 for shorts and documentaries
September 30th, 2008 for feature films
There is no entry fee to pay.
Exhibition formats accepted are 35mm, HD, Digital Betacam, Betacam, DVD. Preview screeners may be submitted as Vhs tapes (PAL or NTSC) or DVDs (any regions).
All the films submitted have to be Italian premieres.
You will find our online entry form and the complete rules of the festival in our website: http://www.torinofilmfest.org
Looking forward to hearing news from you soon.
Best regards,
Luca Andreotti
Program Coordinator
26th Torino Film Festival
(November 21st – 29th, 2008)
Via Montebello 15
10124 Torino ITALY
ph: +39 011 8138.803
fax: +39 011 8138.890
Dear Friends,
thanks for your mails, we are interested in all your new films, please send us shorts, festures, docs, whatever you have from 2008 we would be glad to discover your new works!
Thanks a lot in advance,
Warm regards
Anne Delseth
Festival International de Films de Fribourg
Ancienne Gare
Case postale 550
CH – 1701 Fribourg
T +41 (0)26 347 42 00
F +41 (0)26 347 42 01
http://www.fiff.ch
Hello,
If you are interested with our Festival, please could you complete the entry form on our website : http://www.centremultimedia.org
Best regards,
Julien Polet
Secretary
Dear Colleagues,
Serve this to let you know that the DVDs with the films arrived to our office. However we will need you to fill the on-line entry form at our website http://www.fikeonline.net/2008/en/festival/registration/
This procedure is indispensable for the consideration of our Selection Committee. All the films must be submitted to our database. Please print in pdf and sent to our e-mail the entries corresponding to the following films:
Ambulancia
Puwang
Nekro
Thanks for your cooperation and submissions.
Best Regards
Joao Paulo Macedo
Festival Director
FIKE 2007 – Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Évora
Páteo do Salema, n.º 7 – A
7000 – 818 Évora
PORTUGAL
Tel: +351266708488
Fax: +351266708489 / +351266703137
http://www.myspace.com/fikefestival
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Cinema Art Foundation in cooperation with Federation of Independent Filmmakers initiated an important prestigious event promoting independent filmmakers: Grand OFF – European Off Film Awards.
Last year the first prestigious Gala in Warsaw took place and first 9 films received honourable statuettes. The awards were given in the following categories: directing, scriptwriting, editing, cinematography, best actor, best actress, best feature, best documentary and best animation. This year we would like to add another category: The Best Non-European Production
As we would like this initiative reach the whole World and involve all important film festivals and film institution, we would appreciate if you help us finding independent film productions from your country. We would be very glad if you send us any information that could help us reaching filmmakers or if you spread this information around your environment as well as place it on your website.
Thank you for your consideration and please feel free to contact with us to receive more details.
Deadline for submission is on the 31st August. Online submission form as well as regulation is available on our website http://www.grandoff.eu
Yours faithfully,
Katarzyna Luczak
do you have job openings… thanks…
Dear friend,
My name is Benjamin Leroy, I am in charge of the short films category for the 15th LYON ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL ( 3rd – 8th November 2009 in Lyon, France, more information at http://www.asiexpo.com/festival )
During this week of screenings, encounters and debates, the short films category is a very important one to us, as they always show great creativity, enthusiasm and novelty.
If you released a movie in 2008 or 2009, we’d be glad to receive your submission, so that we can consider it for selection.
If you are interested, you can send us a DVD copy at the following address:
15th Lyon Asian Film Festival
Asiexpo Association
9 quater rue Montbrillant
69003 Lyon
FRANCE
Please don’t forget to mention “NO COMMERCIAL VALUE,CULTURAL PURPOSES
ONLY” on your parcel.
In the meantime, please register by filling in the form you will find on
our website:
http://www.asiexpo.com/festival/pro/formulaire_inscription_en.htm
This form is the best way for us to get information about you and your movie.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Do not hesitate to tell your friends and other contacts about our festival, we are always eager for quality movies!
Hoping to hear from you soon,
Kindest regards,
Benjamin.
—————
Benjamin Leroy / Short Films Competition
15th LYON ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
3/8 november 2009 – Lyon, France
Asiexpo Association
9 quater rue Montbrillant – 69003 Lyon
FRANCE
Tel / +33 472 91 43 73
Fax / +33 472 35 90 11
asiexpo@asiexpo.com
http://www.asiexpo.com
We received 4 DVD’s, each one marked as follows :
1. Handumanan
2. Kinulayang Kiti
3. Walong Linggo
4. Shorts
We just need these information for each film :
Director’s name :
Production company’s name :
Year of production :
Duration of the film :
I appreciate it if you can fill those information and get back to us soon. Thank you very much.
Teddy Satrio Wibowo
11th Jakarta International Film Festival (JiFFest)
December 4-12, 2009
Jl. Sutan Syahrir I C Blok 3-4
Jakarta 10350
Indonesia
P: +62 (0) 21 319 25115
F: +62 (0) 21 319 25360
KAN Film Festival 2010 – Call for Entries
ABOUT…
11th Amateur and Independent Film Festival KAN 2010 – a film festival held annually in Wrocław, with the aim to choose the best Polish independent film in the categories of feature film, documentary and animation, and also the best foreign film. Between the 21st and 25th of April 2010, Polish and foreign independent film productions will be presented in Wrocław arthouse cinema ‘Warszawa’. We invite everyone who wants to share their works to join us in another decade of making and discovering independent cinema.
Call for entries 2010 – Best Foreign Film Competition
The Best Foreign Film Competition is open to all films of any genre, language and format (English subtitles are required), which running time does not exceed 30 minutes. Polish Films cannot be submitted to this competition.
How to submit a film
Films for the contests can be submitted from now on by sending them with the printed and signed application form to the headquarters of Polish Students’ Association in Wrocław (Zrzeszenie Studentów Polskich ul. Kościuszki 34 pok. 4 „Pałacyk”, 50-012 Wrocław).
The online application form you can find under this link:
http://kan.art.pl/forms/form_int.php
Deadline: January 31st 2009
Contact:
KAN Film Festival 2010
Best Foreign Film Contest
ul. Kościuszki 34
50-012 Wrocław
tel.: +4871 799 45 61,
fax: +4871 343 85 84
http://www.kan.art.pl
Mail: international@kan.art.pl
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