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KATORSE SHORTS now available online
Katorse Shorts may now be viewed online. Perfect for fellow Filipinos abroad thirsting for some rare Pinoy indies. Read more
12 Countries Represented at First Annual Competition
The first annual Muhr AsiaAfrica Competition at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) offers a selection of short films from Africa, Central Asia and the Far East that offer a bouquet of stories at once, organizers said today. Read more
Akihiro Sato will appear in indie film “Handumanan”
Jocelyn Dimaculangan
Saturday, November 29, 2008
01:28 PM
Half-Brazilian, half-Japanese model Akihiro Sato will be introduced in the indie film titled Handumanan (Remembrance). This project came just a few months after appearing as one of the ten Celebrity Centerfolds of Cosmopolitan’s Cosmomen supplement released last September. Read more
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
June 21, 2008 at 6:20 pm
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
June 22, 2008 at 6:30 am
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
July 8, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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
July 8, 2008 at 2:19 pm
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
July 9, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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
August 5, 2008 at 3:22 pm
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
June 15, 2009 at 4:35 pm
do you have job openings… thanks…
August 12, 2009 at 1:15 am
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
August 19, 2009 at 4:19 am
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