Cinema Rehiyon 7 HighRes

National Commission for Culture and the Arts
National Committee on Cinema
presents
SM Cinema / Cine Oriente / Film and Media Arts Academy

6 9 August 2015
Cebu City, Philippines
CONTENTS
Messages
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WELCOME TO CINEMA REHIYON!
About the
Festival
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Schedule
of Activities
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Introduction to CR7
Maria Victoria Bambi Beltran
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Festival Director
FORUMS
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Film
Catalog
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FILM PROGRAMS
LUZON
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VISAYAS
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MINDANAO
Quick Help Guide

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Behind the Festival

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MESSAGE
FELIPE M. DE LEON, Jr.
Chairman

Films, like other art forms, are reflections of social
and cultural realities as well as our inner lives and sentiments.
Back in those days, when film reels were delivered from
production houses to the cinemas through bicycle, when we
transported reel after reel of moving images from one movie
house to another, we saw the beginnings of Filipino cinema.

From the time Dalagang Bukid, the first film produced
by a Filipino, was screened, the Pinoy film industry has gone
a long way. The bikes and the reels are gone, but the character
of Filipino cinema, the spirit which inspires it remains alive in
the regions as much as in the metro.

With Cinema Rehiyon 7: At the Crossroads of the
Seventh Art, the flagship program of the National Commission
for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) National Committee on
Cinema, we want to bring films by the Filipinos to a greater,
wider audience. We advocate the awareness of distinct regional
perspectives through the film medium.

Filipino cinema cannot remain Manila-centric. We can
only build this nation by pooling together the strengths of our
collective heritage as revealed through the art of cinema.

As the prime government agency dedicated to the
preservation, development and promotion of arts and culture
in the Philippines, the NCCA supports Cinema Rehiyon 7 and
commends the National Committee on Cinema for creating
a platform for our regional filmmakers to showcase their
impeccable talents and out-of-the-box vision for Filipino
cinema. With the vision, Filipino culture as the wellspring
of national and global wellbeing we forward Philippine
cinema as a prime reflection of Filipino culture and identity.

Mabuhay ang pelikulang Filipino!
MESSAGE
ADELINA M. SUEMITH
OIC - Executive Director

The National Commission for Culture and the
Arts (NCCA), the prime government arm dedicated to the
preservation, development and promotion of arts and culture,
commends the National Committee on Cinema (NCC) for the
conduct of the 7th Cinema Rehiyon, the seventh showcase of
regional films around the archipelago.

CR7s theme, At the Crossroads of the Seventh Art,
reflects the state of Philippine cinema. From the mainstream
scene of the metro, we venture into the rougher roads of the
regions to capture and share the realities, the beauty and
courage in the struggles of our fellow Filipinos.

With the proliferation of Western films in our cinemas,
we are fortunate to be witnesses to these regional gems that
would complete and eventually empower the Philippines
silverscreen industry. These are true treasures that we need to
promote not only locally but also internationally.

We congratulate every filmmaker who took their
camera out to capture the flare of the Filipino imagination, the
Alab ng Haraya. The NCCA is most delighted that through the
efforts of the industrious members of the Cinema Committee,
Cinema Rehiyon has now blossomed into one of the most
recognized film festivals of the country.

Through these creations, we wish to impart to the
Filipino people the vision of the Commission, Filipino culture
as the wellspring of national and global well-being,
Maraming Salamat at mabuhay ang pelikulang Filipino!
MESSAGE
HON. HILARIO JUN-JUN DAVIDE III
Governor
Province of Cebu

Cinema is not only a powerful vehicle for culture, arts,

education, leisure and propaganda; it is an art in itself, an
entertainment, a language, an inspiration. It can influence
people to move. It is also a reflection of our society both past
and present. Movies allow people to be taken to places they
cant get to on their own, be it travel, or culture or learning.
Therefore we should make it an important part of our tools
towards growth as a country.
I fully support the efforts and the move for the enlightenment
of the Filipino film industry by exploring the different regional
films and I look forward to the growth of the industry that can
provide additional employment for the people of the Province
of Cebu and the other neighboring provinces and regions.
Mabuhi ang Cebuano Cinema. Mabuhi ang Cinema Rehiyon.
Mabuhi ang Pelikulang Pilipino.
I welcome you all to the Province of Cebu.
MESSAGE
HON. MICHAEL L. RAMA
Mayor
City of Cebu

In behalf of the City and the citizens of Cebu, I
welcome all the delegates and guests to the Queen City of the
South as we proudly host the 7th Cinema Rehiyon this year!

Our beloved city has kept a thriving film heritage
throughout the years. Thanks to avenues like the Cinema
Rehiyon for promoting the cinemas from the different regions
in our country such as Cebu. Since its creation, our artists and
filmmakers found the motivation to produce more films with
their creativity and resourcefulness.

To sustain and preserve this legacy, we ordained the
Cebuano Cinema Development Council, as well as to create
a constructive environment that will encourage our local
filmmakers in producing a homegrown cinema that can be
a source of inspiration with a strong sense of our peoples
identity as a community.

Once again, congratulations to the organizers of this
event. I also commend the efforts of the National Commission
for Culture and the Arts and all artists for the commitment
and passion in bringing this festival and its advocacy to its 7th
year! May the succeeding years be even more fruitful!

Daghan Salamat ug mabuhi ka, Cinema Rehiyon!
ABOUT
CINEMA
REHIYON
Seven years ago, the National Commission on Culture and Arts
cinema committee had the vision to enrich Philippine cinema
with the largely undiscovered filmic creativity dubbed as cinemas
in the region.
It is from that vision that the regional film festival of the
Philippines, the Cinema Rehiyon, was born. Its initial two steps
in 2009 and 2010 began in the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
From there the festival travelled the archipelago, landing in
Davao (2011), Bacolod (2012), moving northward to Los Baos
(2013), then southbound again to Cagayan De Oro (2014). For
every iteration of the festival, its organizers, shareholders,
curators and filmmaker delegates have held fast to the ideal that
Philippine cinema is the sum total of all cinemas in the regions.
The seven-year old festival finds itself today at the heart of Region
7, and the road to Cebu has not been without its detours. It is
the first time that the Cinema Rehiyon festival is not celebrated
during the national arts month when it was traditionally held
every February. It is also the first Cinema Rehiyon under a new
NCCA leadership and a fresh set of officers of the NCCA Cinema
Committee. NCC Chairman William Mayo had a stroke earlier
this year and instead of weakening the committee, it galvanized
the other members to perform better. Still recovering, Direk
William Mayo is here with us, gracing the event, proof of his
resilience and commitment to the Cinema Rehiyon festival.
These changes notwithstanding, the commitment is still same

or perhaps even more vigorous and that is to present regional
cinema; a myriad of cultures in all its vibrant energy and colors,
in order to cultivate a profound and enlightening vision of our
multi-faceted identity as Filipinos.
Cinema Rehiyon 7 showcases 17 full-length features with 57
short films chosen to celebrate the diverse Filipino heritage and
to present the discourse that cinema in the regions is national
cinema. Cebu offers a unique setting because it had a vibrant
cinematic scene especially in the 60s and 70s. It is perhaps the
only region, outside of Manila that boasts of its own film making
culture.
Cebuanos have lost most of its 200 or so films produced in the
last decades. The screening of Badlis sa Kinabuhi as opening
film in the 7th Cinema Rehiyon Film Festival is an attempt to
take a glimpse at the past glory of Cebuano cinema. And for the
nearly 100 delegates and guests celebrating the Cinema Rehiyon
experience this 2015 in Cebu, the crossroads of the seventh art,
may you all take the right path to healthy and vibrant cinemas in
the regions.
Cinema Rehiyon Cebu 2015
AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE

SEVENTH ART
Maria Victoria Bambi Beltran
Festival Director
Now on its 7th year, Cinema Rehiyon arrives in Cebu this 2015!
As a delegate from Cebu since the very first Cinema Rehiyon in 2009, I
have seen how Cinema Rehiyon grew and changed through the years with
each host venue adding something different and vital making the festival
truly national and at the same time truly regional. It is auspicious that
on its seventh run, the festival is hosted by the city center of Region 7,
in the middle of the country; a crossroads of trade, art, that connects the
North to the South and vice versa. So it is only a given that we choose the
rainbows colors, all 7 of them, for the Cinema Rehiyon logo to celebrate
our diversity as well as our solidarity.
And the puso; the hanging rice, is chosen as this years festival logo to
highlight the native identity that makes each Cinema Rehiyon different,
as well as highlight the practical creativity of the Cebuanos. Puso being a
staple can also indicate how cinema is fast becoming a favorite staple of
the Filipinos cultural diet. Schools and towns around the country now
have their own short film festivals where anyone can present their homegrown stories and be appreciated by a live audience directly or remotely
through the Internet.
Every year, Cinema Rehiyon has the mission to reinvigorate national
cinema by putting the spotlight on the regions. Before Cinema Rehiyon,
Cebu has contributed talents; both on-screen and off-screen as well as a
unique cinema culture to the diversity that has always been present yet
understated in Philippine cinema. It is to give tribute to this heritage that
Cinema Rehiyon 7 opens with Badlis sa Kinabuhi (Lifeline, 1969), a boxoffice hit which also earned best actress and best child performer nods
for living legend Gloria Sevilla and Frankie Navaja Jr. at the 1970 FAMAS
Awards. Later, the film represented the Philippines at the ASEAN Film
Festival, Indonesia and the Berlin Film Festival.
For this years film line-up, three venues are provided; SM Cinema, Cine
Oriente, possibly the oldest running movie theater in the country that
is now equipped with the latest digital movie projection system; and the
Film and Media Arts Academy Mini Theater, the newest school in Cebus
growing educational landscape dedicated to movie craft and production.
At the latter venue, forums will be held to address key topics and trends
important for the sustainability of regional cinema and transformation
of Philippine cinema, particularly discourses on reimagining regional
cinema and considering the regional as the Other, practical talks on how
filmmakers can have the world as their audience and film restoration as a
way of preserving heritage.
This years programming of full-lengths and short films follow a labeling
of common themes with category names to engage the imagination; such
as Existential Exits, Gender Blenders, This Land is Mined, True Bromance,
No Left Turn and many more. These commonalities show that the regions
share more than just the love of cinema and movie production.
The film closes with the magnum opus of that singular pioneer of regional
cinema, Kidlat Tahimik, who challenges the conventional and celebrates
the native spirit through his art. A work thirty-five years in the making,
the film explores the circumnavigation of the first Filipino balikbayan
Enrique who was a slave-servant to Magellan whose death in Cebu starts
Enriques new chapter as a free man; as every ending leads to a beginning.
As Festival Director, I wish to acknowledge the support of the NCCA
and its Board of Commissioners for without them this celebration
is not possible; the members of the National Cinema Committee for
their dedication and passion for Cinema Rehiyon; our partners and
shareholders in Cebu for their support; and for the festival staff and
our volunteers, my deepest thanks and affection. To our delegates and
guests, I hope youll enjoy the hospitality of the Queen City of the South
and know that youre always welcome here and let us celebrate together
the bond that we share, which is the pride for our regional individuality
and its expressions on the silver screen.
Maayong pag-abot sa Cinema Rehiyon 7 sa Sugbo!
SCHEDULE OF
ACTIVITIES
DAY 1 OPENING
AUGUST 6, 2015 (T)
Time
VENUE
ACTIVITY DETAILS
10:00 AM - ONWARDS
Airport,
seaport,
hotels
ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION OF DELEGATES
12:00 NN - 4:00 PM
MJ Hotel & Suites,

Cebu Business Hotel
CHECK-IN AND REGISTRATION OF DELEGATES
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
SM Cinema
SCREENING OF PRE-OPENING FILM:
SOAP OPERA
Forum Moderator: Teddy Co

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
SM Cinema
OPENING CEREMONIES
7:00 PM - 8:37 PM
SM Cinema
SCREENING OF OPENING FILM:
HANDUMANAN SA USA KA SALIDA

BADLIS SA KINABUHI
Forum Moderator: Diem Judilla
9:00 PM - 12:00 PM
The Monastery
Entertainment provided by
Missing Filemon and Comedy Cebu International

Segment Host: Ron Tan and Stella Palomo
Gary Jackson for Comedy Cebu
DAY 2 - AUGUST 7, 2015 (F)
CINI ORIENTE 1
3:00 M D K / P
MAGKAKABAUNG / 104:00
5:30 K A L /Q
MAUBAN: ANG RESIKO/ 100
8:00 R L / C
BITUKANG MANOK / 106

10:01 -10:30 LAST Q A
FMA S 1 PM .
CHARACTER (QUITE A)
ANG PINAKALAMI NA APOL PIE / D

SINO SI MEL CARREON? / I
BARIL NI POLDING NA WAY POLBORA / D
HOLY ART THOU
RETASO/ C
MATER / B
PRUTAS / C
ANG LIHIM NI NATIVIDAD / CO
YEARNING TO LEARN
CINI ORIENTE 2
3:00 K / GS
P B/D/ 26:00
TIGDONG / 60:00
5:30 S / CO
DAPYA SANG PAGLAUM/74
8:00 A / Z
NICK AND CHAI / 70
8:14 -8:44 LAST Q A
LAFIS NI EFUNG / GS
YUHOM / B
MANI / D
PANGINDAHAY / N
HAYSKUL / L
THE ART OF CHEATING / CS
EXISTENTIAL EXITS
PUNTA / B
SKY IS EVERYWHERE / B
ANG PAGPUKAW SA AKONG DAMGO / D
PUKOT / D
WAWA / R
GENDER BLENDER
MAWALA MANG LAHAT / CS

WORLD WAR TEH / O
ANG PANGALUPAS NING MATINGCAD CUNG CULE / P
JULIE / C
THIS LAND IS MINED
NANGISIT NGA DARAG (BLACK SAND) / C

PASUON / N
CHASING WAVES / D / 92:00
DAY 3 - AUGUST 8, 2015 (S)
CINI ORIENTE 1
3:00
N S/CS
LITTLE AZKALS / 86
5:30
H / C
MARCIANO / 103M
8:00
T E W/CO
WAR IS A TENDER THING/74
FMA S 1 PM .
C.S.I.
BANTAY SALAKAY / I
TAKAY / CS
GETTING TERMINATED
SOMBRA / Z
HULAGWAY SA MAMUMUNO / GS
BAHIG / D
GAID / I
TWILIGHT ZONE
IMPERFECT / C
THE CLOSET / D
HAPPY FIESTA / CO
BAGABAG / CO
9:31 -10:31 LAST Q A
HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER

LA PRADERA / O
NILUSAK / N
SANCTISSIMA / C
CINI ORIENTE 2
3:00
WALANG RAPE SA BONTOK/119
5:30
K / B
BUSO/BUSOL / 97
8:00
TRUE BROMANCE
LISYON QNG GEOGRAFIA / P

PANAN'AW / D
APASOL / Z
NO LEFT TURN
U/ R
MIGKAHI E SI AMEY TE, 'ULIKI PAD' / 96
9:00 AM - 11:30 NN
3:00 PM
-
INUKBAN / D
SONATA MARIA / D / 72:00
9:52 10:22 LAST Q A
DAY 4 - CLOSING
JOSEPHINE / C
PANAN-AW / D
SUSMARYOSEP / S
AUGUST 9, 2015 (S)
Museo sa Sugbo
Jesuit Museum
San Diego Museum
Fort San Pedro
Cathedral Museum
Sto. Nino Basilica
Adlawan sa Kabilin
SM Cinema 1
Closing lm
Day of Heritage
Performances by: USC Fashion Flash and
Lapunti Arnis de Abanico Grandmaster
Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III

Kidlat Tahimik / Baguio
Moderator: Teddy Co
6:00 PM
8:00 PM - Onwards
Closing ceremonies - Graduation and passing on to next host

Tops, Busay
Kasadya sa Gabii
Fun Night Tops, Busay
Entertainment provided by Budoy of Junior Kilat, DJ Lapulapu,
Nino the Fire Dancer, Gorordo Street Musicians,
Chai Fonacier and Russ Ligtas
Segment Host: Ron Tan
FORUMS
Cinema Rehiyon 7 Film Festival

August 6-9, 2015
Film And Media Arts International Academy Mini Theater
General Maxilom Avenue Extension
Cebu City, Philippines
Forum 1 RE-IMAGINING REGIONAL CINEMA

As with mainstream cinema, regional cinema has always been viewed
from those in the center with the region as a default marginal space, an
exotica within the nation that is also imagined. In this forum, we aim to
look at the notion of cinema from the region and revisit their aspect of
authenticity, subversion and contribution to the National Imaginary.
Speakers: Dax Tanedo, Kei Tan, Carey Rothman
Moderator: Tito Valiente
Forum 2 THE REGIONAL AS THE OTHER IN CINEMA

The film products from the region have always been viewed as different
and anomalous compared to the standard and normal embedded in
cinemas produced in major productions that are generally Metro Manilabased. This forum will attempt to explore to what degree the
region has accepted the peripheralization in terms of images and
identities that the cinema in the region produces. Is this othering good
for the region or does the process diminishes the act of the region to
assert the identities present in its space?
Speakers: Archi Adamos, Tito Valiente, Ed Lejano
Moderator: Martin Masadao
FORUM 3 GETTING THE WORLD TO SEE YOUR FILMS

Regional cinema and the so-called indie films have thrived on the lack of
commercial appeal, which translates into a dearth of audience support.
This forum shall address that crisis of arts. Audience development, film
education, and looking into forms and content that are marketable are
just some of the aspects and theme that this forum will look into.
Speakers: Philip Cheah, Ed Cabagnot, Jason Paul Laxamana
Moderator: Rosanni Recreo Sarile
FORUM 4 FILM AS HERITAGE: RESTORING AND

REMEMBERING CEBUANO FILM CLASSICS
While film has already been considered for a long time as part of the
national heritage, the industry - both the mainstream and the indepedent
cinema groips - has not really focused its program on restoration. But
more than the physical aspect of restoration and storage, this forum
will problematize on memory, on how the film artists can contribute to
the maintaining of films, in this case, Cebuano film classics, among film
artists and through dicourses in
Speakers: Leo Katigbak, Paul Grant, Resil Mojares
Moderator: Teddy Co
FILMS
CATALOG
Full Length / SM CINEMA, AUGUST 6
SOAP OPERA
Cebu, 2014
104 minutes
D
W
P
DoPh
C
Remton Siega Zuasola

Remton Siega Zuasola
Ronald Arguelles, Bianca Balbuena
Bradley Liew, Christian Linaban
Matt Daclan, Lovi Poe, Rocco Nacino, Bugoy Cario, Natileigh Sitoy,
Chris Perris
Desperately finding ways to support their sickly child, Noel and Liza
welcome a new addition to their family: Ben, a rich foreigner who hopes
to build a family of his own. Together they play the game of deceit and
make-believe, but the truth is far from secret as the daily soap operas,
crossing the boundaries of television and real life, vividly reflect what
they have been hiding all along.
Short Film / SM CINEMA, OPENING AUGUST 6
HANDUMANAN SA
USA KA SALIDA
Cebu, 2014
Ivan Karol Martinez
6:00
W
E
C
Ivan Karol Martinez

Ivan Karol Martinez
Priscilla Mendoza
Based on the popular Cebuano radio show Handumanan sa usa ka awit,
the film is about old Cebuano movies and how people rarely remember
the heritage of these movies.
OPENING FILM
AUGUST 6
BADLIS
SA KINABUHI
(Lifeline, 1959)
Cebu
D
P
C
Leroy Salvador
Matias K. Ranillo Jr.
Gloria Sevilla, Mat Ranillo, Jr.,
Felix de Catalina, Danilo Nuez,
Aurora Villa, Frankie Navaja, Jr.
In Badlis sa Kinabuhi a Cebuano family is torn apart after the mother kills
a family friend who tried to rape her. The film was entered in the 18th
FAMAS Awards and received 12 nominations out of 14 categories. Gloria
Sevilla won Best Actress, Frankie Navaja, Jr. won Best Child Performer,
and the late Mat Ranillo, Jr. got a posthumous award (he had earlier died
in a plane crash in 1969). The film was the Philippine entry to the ASEAN
Film Festival in Indonesia, and was showcased under the informative
division of the Berlin Film Festival (it was dubbed in English in Hong
Kong and retitled Destined). In 1970, Badlis Sa Kinabuhi was released in
its original Visayan version in Metro Manila and did well at the box office.
Short Film / CINE ORIENTE 1, AUGUST 7
MIS DA KA
Pampanga, 2014
Carlo Enciso Catu
17:55
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E
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C
Carlo Enciso Catu

Jonathan David
Michelle Aguilar-Ong
Jonathan David
Leo Sarmiento, Estella Sarmiento, Angelo Aragon, Jerome Pangilinan
A mother is looking for cassette tapes with recorded messages of her
deceased husband. Their daughter, Lynlyn, resents her for it, longing
for a love she believes she deserves.
Full Length / CINE ORIENTE 1, AUGUST 7
MAGKAKABAUNG
(The Coffin Maker, 2014)
Pampanga
104 minutes
D
W
P
DoPh
C
Jason Paul Laxamana

Jason Paul Laxamana
Ferdinand Lapuz, Dennis Evangelista, Romeo Lindain, Romnick Tejedor
Rain Yamson
Allen Dizon, Gladys Reyes, Chanel Latorre, Emilio Garcia
A single father accidentally kills his daughter with wrong medication.
He struggles not only to bury her body but to bury his culpability as
well.
KAHIT SA ANINO
Quezon, 2014
Lexian Losley Avestruz
17:55
W
E
P
DoPh
C

Gregonia Avestruz
Jeffrey Liwalas, Ricky Fiesta
Vishnu Sabio, Chanel Latorre, Janice Jurado, Bidz Dela Cruz
Kahit sa Anino is a somber, cinematic portrait of a young man
and his unspoken, unrequited love.
MAUBAN: ANG RESIKO

2014
Quezon
100 minutes
D
W
E
P
DoPh
C
Lemuel Lorca
Lemuel Lorca
Rush Borja
Mon Matabang, Vic Villavicencio
Renato De Vera
Sid Lucero, Alessandra de Rossi, Jess Mendoza, Bing Pimentel
Resiko is the term used by folks of Mauban, Quezon to refer to a
portion of ones salary earned by winemakers set aside for a treat or
blowout. A family in Cagbalete Island earns a living from winemaking,
fishing, and charcoal-making. A daily fare, a resiko treat has become a
threat to the familys fight for survival.
RED LIGHTS
Cebu, 2015
Christian Paolo Lat
15:00
W
E
P
DoPh
C
Bambi Beltran
Lester Caatchay, Aldi Labanan
Hannah Mae Ybalez
Christian Paolo Lat, Dominic Lat
Bobby Bowers, Leon Miguel, Bambi Beltran, Catherine Bayang, Alex
Ilaya, Charlie Yap, Balde Lovar
A morose American tourist allows an ebullient and over-pleasing local taxi
driver to take him on a tour around the city, which means a beeline to the
countrys red-light district.
BITUKANG MANOK
(Chicken Guts, 2014)
Camarines Sur
106 minutes
D
W
P
DoPh
C
Alec Figuracion
Alec Figuracion
Ronald Arguelles, Jopz Madarang, AJ Orlina,
Cassandra Domingo, Michelle Simbulan
Aditya Kumar
Ken Anderson, Mara Lopez, Guji Lorenzana, Missy
Maramara, Teri Malvar
In the winding road of the National Forest Park in Quezon Province,
three groups of travellers a family, four friends from Manila, and two
truck drivers from Bicol find themselves inexplicably driving around in
circles, isolated and trapped for days.
KENA
Davao, 2014
Anjeilee Marie Pacuin
17:00
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E
P
DoPh
C
Anjeilee Marie Pacuin, Queenlee Sumagaysay, Odette Roslinda

Joecarlo Lagra
Montregal Productions
Charlie King Rosario
Stephanie Grace Lasig, Melchie Ngo, Agnes Lasig, Hernanie Ngo
A Tboli girl in Lake Sebu sells vegetables and shells to help her family.
When she walks around the neighborhood and returns home every day,
she dreams of only one thing: to get an education.
PAHIYOM NI BOYE
Davao, 2014
Hugh Montero
26:00
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E
P
DoPh
C
Hugh Montero
Willie Apa, Jr.
RedWerkz Production, Rural Missionaries of the Philippines Southern Mindanao Region
Willie Apa, Jr.
Mayla Dumala, Joan Mantikinon, Sanny Guimboloy, Rina Guimboloy
Pahiyom ni Boye deals with an indigenous tribe where education is as
precious as gold, where a pair of slippers can bring a smile to a little girls
face. Living far away from civilization, what kind of future awaits them?
TIGDONG / 60 min
2014
Samar
60 minutes
D
W
E
P
C
Thomas Fitzgerald
Thomas Fitzgerald
Thomas T. Fitzgerald
Thomas Fitzgerald
Edward T. Garol, Nina Dyna J. Obina, Thomas Fitzgerald
Tigdong is centered on a student Takoy, who was a survivor of both
Typhoon Ruby and Yolanda. He was broken-hearted but he was still
able to recover because of his resilience, and the presence of a kind
mentor who inspires him to rise above beyond his difficulties.
SHIFTS
Cagayan De Oro, 2011
Hesumaria Sescon and Judyfind Dumanon
38:00
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DoPh
C
Hesumaria Sescon and Judyfind Dumanon

Hesumaria Sescon
Urian Arts Center Philippines
Hesumaria Sescon
Jade Soreno
Two veteran artists escape the devastating flood brought by Typhoon
Sendong and find themselves on the rooftop. Armed with two cameras,
they start filming the scenes of the aftermath where thousands have died,
homes and communities lost. As displaced persons themselves, they go
on to film their journey through the devastation.
DAPYA SANG PAGLAUM

(Waves of Hope, 2015)
Iloilo
75 minutes
D
W
P
DoPh
C
TM Malones
Danny Del Rosario & TM Malones
TM Malones
TM Malones
TM Malones
The film captures the faith, hopes, and aspirations of the members of
a small community in Naborot Island in Northern Iloilo, devastated by
typhoon Yolanda last November 8, 2013, as they struggle to rebuild
their lives. It celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit when disaster
victims walk through their pains in solidarity.
ABISO
Davao, 2014
Romeo Rabajante, Jr.
4:00
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DoPh

Kendrick Rico, Ahmad Ascao
Rockenroll and CA103 Productions
Aljhun Rey Canillo
The tragedy brought about by supertyphoon Yolanda must not only be
remembered, but also serve as a lesson to protect the environment and be
prepared for climate change.
NICK & CHAI

2014
Leyte
70 minutes
D
E
P
DoPh
C
Cha Escala, Wena Sanchez

Bam Luneta, Cha Escala
Cha Escala, Wena Sanchez
Cha Escala
Nick and Chai Quieta
Supertyphoon Yolanda claimed the lives of Nick and Chai Quietas four
children, leaving them with nothing but each other and a house torn to
pieces. Now, four months later, we step inside their home and observe
how they cope with their loss.
NOW SHOWING
CamSur, 2014
Mark T. Arquilla
11:28
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DoPh
C
Mark T. Arquilla
Mark T. Arquilla
Backstub Productions
Mark T. Arquilla
Jaime Bichara, Noa Carrascoso, Jess Dadis
Now Showing puts the spotlight on Naga City, CamSurs early movie
theater moguls.
LITTLE AZKALS
2014
86 minutes
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Baby Ruth Villarama

Baby Ruth Villarama
Chuck Gutierrez
Chuck Gutierriez, Doy del Mundo,
Albert Almendralejo
Dindo Fortuno, Dexter dela Pea
For the first time in history, the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) has
launched a search for the next Philippine Azkals who will undergo training
for the 2019 World Cup qualifier. More than 1000 boys from Luzon,
Visayas, and Mindanao tried, with only 22 are selected for the final team.
This documentary film is a story about how dreams are fought for.
HANDURAWAN
Cebu, 2014
Jaylou Dari
12:00
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Jaylou Dari
Jaylou Dari
Jaylou Dari
Jaylou Dari
Jaylou Dari, Janna Ocleasa, Rica Salvador, Mariya Lim
In love for the first time, a young poet tries to find his own words for
the experience by seeking first others words. Overwhelmed by the
many voices of loves multi-faceted reality, the poet seeks solace in his
isolated imagination to hear his own hearts voice.
MARCIANO
2014
Pampanga
103 minutes
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Ivy Universe Baldoza

Silver Belen
Ruelo Lozendo, Maxie Evangelista
Nelson Florentino, Ruelo Lozendo
A documentary that shares a compelling portrait of a gay OFW who
lived in Paris for 25 years and died there alone. The narrative is built
around found stories of relatives, acquaintances, and strangers and
everything that happened in Marcianos life is soon forged together by
collective memory.
THE END OF WAR

Cagayan De Oro, 2014
Joe Bacus
17:00
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Joe Bacus, Orpheus Nery

Joe Bacus
Swietenia Arbilon, Kai Matalam, Haidie Sangkad, Orpheus Nery,
Atty. Johnson Reyes
Joe Bacus
Rusty Quintana, Haidie Sangkad, Loreshyl Ratunil
Fahad, Noor, and Amila, full of hopes and dreams, are a happy family
caught in a bloody encounter between soldiers and rebels in Mindanao.
Sadly, their story continues to prove Platos words that only the dead
have seen the end of war.
WAR IS A TENDER THING

2013
Cotabato
74 minutes
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Adjani Arumpac
Adjani Arumpac
Adjani Arumpac
Julia Garcia Matibag, Saltwater Cinema, Goethe Institut
Adjani Arumpac
War is a Tender Thing retells the blood-soaked story of war-torn southern
Philippines. Portrayed by the media as a locus of unbridgeable conflicts
between and among different cultures living side by side, this documentary
gently unravels the war as an endless attempt at survival and adaptation
by citizens in the southern Philippines to state policies that disregard the
most basic concept of home.
WALANG RAPE SA BONTOK

(Bontok, Rapeless; 2014)
Bontok/La Union/Laguna
119 minutes
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Mark Lester Valle

Carla Samantha Ocampo
Habi Collective Media
Mark Lester Valle
Two Filipinas, both victims of sexual abuse in varying degrees, yearn
and search for a utopia where women can live without being sexually
violated. By chance, they encounter a study by renowned anthropologist
June Prill-Brett, who states that the Bontok of the Philippine Cordilleras
have lived for eras without a concept or incidence of rape. At last, a
utopia, where the most heinous of gender crimes is unheard of. Or is it?
In this world where there is a near universality of oppression against
women, how did a society without rape become possible?
KULIS
Baguio, 2015
Conviron Altatis
15:00
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Conviron Altatis
Chamberlane Altatis
Chamberlane Altatis
Alexis Ballatong, Conan Altatis, Abner Bodong, Bonbon Kidkid
After mayor Brandolph Dap-ayan mysteriously committed suicide,
TV show host Corn Dakkel interviews two of his friends. Fake blonde
Marmie says she was the late young mayors girlfriend but gay man Kraig
claims he was the boyfriend. What is common in Marmie and Kraigs
stories is that the late mayor enjoys kulis, a traditional foot reflexology
of the Igorot people.
BUSO/BUSOL: THE LAST

HEADHUNTERS TO
CHRISTIANITY
2013
Cordilleras
97 minutes
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C
Sendong, Boyong
Nestor Boyong Daguines
Rosendo Sendong Salvacio
Rosendo Salvacio, Teresa Calay, Mercy Aquioben, Jovel Bentres
Headhunting was one of the harshest practices of the Igorots a risky,
cruel, and heartless act done as an offering to the gods in exchange for
a bountiful harvest. A young Igorot woman Talaw offers her life as the
ultimate sacrifice to convert her father to Christianity.
UGKAT
Rizal, 2014
Alyssa Mariel Suico
8:16
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Alyssa Mariel Suico

Karl Glenn Barit, Alyssa Suico
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Rommel Suico
Mico Manalaysay
Claudine Aldana, Jenjen Guinado, Anita Casingyan
The film speaks of unearthing our native identity that weve buried in
the efforts to level ourselves with cultures that are not our own. Yet our
rich and beautiful culture is still inside of us is just waiting to be heard.
MIGKAHI E SI AMEY TI,

ULI KI PAD
(Father said, Lets Return Home; 2014)
Cagayan De Oro/Bukidnon
96 minutes
D
P
Nef Luczon
GMANews TV Cine Totoo
After the death of the cultural icon and chieftain of the ManoboTigwahanon tribe in San Fernando, Bukidnon, there was a morale
vacuum felt by his community in Kibongkog village. His own family
composed of his founded tribal band Indakolon disbanded and his
children carried on with their lives as wandering workers in the urban
cities. Then one day, his adopted son took up the courage to restore
everything and save the younger generations from slipping from their
true identities as stewards of the earth of the past.
Short Film / FMA THEATER, AUGUST 7
CHARACTER (QUITE A) BATASAN (A GYUD)
ANG PINAKALAMI
NA APOL PIE
Davao, 2014
Chico Christie Pace
6:33
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Chico Christie Pace

Chico Christie Pace
Ramir Bargamento, Chico Pace
Chico Christie Pace
Troy Ramos, Arianne Monterde, Kwe Sarita, Louis Lacida
Troy tells his love story to a cat: a tale of falling helplessly and hopeless
in love with Arianne since grade school and doing everything for her,
until a slice of apple pie makes him realize hes been a fool.
BARIL NI POLDING
NA WAY POLBORA
Davao, 2014
Albert Egot, Jr.
31:46:00
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Albert Egot, Jr.

Alvertus Film Production
Albert Egot, Jr.
Polding
A true story of a little man who believes life is still beautiful despite
being homeless.
SIN-O SI MEL CARREON?

Iloilo, 2013
Mia Reyes
7:20
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Mia Reyes
Mia Reyes
John Ray Palmares
Mel Carreon
Insurance salesman Mel Carreon has political ambition. Many election
losses and lack of campaign funds do not deter him at all. Carreons
creative campaigns endear him to the Ilonggo crowd. Some sees him as
a visionary who was never given a chance. But for others, he is simply a
foolish man who never accepts defeat.
HOLY ART THOU BALAAN KA
RETASO
Cebu, 2014
Ernest Dino
7:07
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Ernest Dio
Ernest Dio
Ernest Dio
Ernest Dio, Banawe Corvera, Bugz Saavedra
Images of varying intensity, texture, and effect pervade this film
that won the top prize at the 2014 Binisaya Film Festival.
MATER
Bulacan, 2015
Christianare de la Cruz
19:25
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Jean Robbie Pagtalunan

Wence Trajano
Multimedia Division
Danilo Gatchalian, Jr., Gemmz Robles
Onyl Tecson-Cruz, Rhonnabelle Marcos Carillo
When extreme devotion and unconditional love collide, a mother
and her daughter seek escape from their bond.
OPERATION
PRUTAS
Cebu, 2015
Ara Chawdhury
7:47
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Ara Chawdhury
Ara Chawdhury and Christian Linaban
Tiny Diapana, Ara Chawdhury, Christian Linaban
Christian Linaban
Ronyel Compra, Chai Fonacier, Alex Ilaya
In this heist comedy, a man and a woman plot to steal the 600-yearold Sto. Nino de Cebu. Everything goes according to plan - until the
man mysteriously loses the icon.
LIHIM NI NATIVIDAD
Cagayan de Oro, 2014
Jasmine Limas
27:00
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C
Jasmin Limas
Marcelino Cahig
Eyeopener Productions
Wacky Eppi
Jed Lorence Mioza, Hope Angela Sanico, Fernan Gray Gravoso,
Mark Anthony Mendez
Natividad is a devotee of the Virgin Mary. But beneath her saintly
surface, she keeps a secret even her best friend doesnt know. Writing
and receiving letters in secret, she has always been bothered if falling
love be a mistake.
YEARNING TO LEARN GUSTONG MAKAT-ON
LAFIS NI EFUNG
GenSan, 2015
Jodan Manua
8:34
Allan Flores, Sheila Vallente

Kit Harvey Caubalejo
Metro Pro
Kit Harvey Caubalejo
Francis Clark Pama, Arturo Pama, Alvemar Sulanting, Boanie Paus
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DoPh
C
A kid lives in the highlands and studies in a downtown school. Daily, he

walks the difficult terrain to school. He carries a coconut to a store and
receives a pencil in return.
YUHOM
Bacolod, 2015
Blessel Joy Toledo
8:40
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Blessel Joy Toledo

Blessel Joy Toledo
Blessel Joy Toledo
Blessel Toledo
John Lemuel Delapa, Sheila Nivera, RJ Magbanua
When a boy dreams of going to Bacolod City, he earns and saves money on
his own but his mother gets suspicious on his activities.
MANI
Dumaguete, 2013
Mayflower Caponpon
10:57
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May Flower Caponpon

Melfred Caquite, Mayflower Caponpon
Mark James Kho
Melfred Casquite, Neil Ross Jun Tantio, Troxie Gaveot Torres, May
Flower Caponpon
Nikko Salceda, Mary Monete Batandolo
A boy sells peanuts to earn money to help his family, yet he yearns to be a
normal kid who goes to school, eat snacks and play.
PANGINDAHAY
Nabunturan, 2014
Erl Niko Limos
13:35
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C
Julius V. Robles
Julius V. Robles
NCHS SPA-Media Arts
Julius V. Robles
Drach Cyrus Conde, Maxville Ann Glannayo
Fate had brought Manang Elsa and Mac-mac to a heartbreaking
situation. As they struggled and strived to survive, Mac-mac still has
his aspirations in life.
HAYSKUL
Laguna, 2015
Darlene Pearl Ramos
8:24
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Jamille Evangelista
Emmanuel Dela Rosa
Los Banos National High School, Matt Baguinon
Emmanuel Dela Rosa
Jamille Evangelista, Annalyn Miravalles, Roselyn De Fiesta,
Jeystin Elizabeth Francia, Angelique Evangelista
Jeng-Jeng, a transferee from a far-flung province, tries to cope for being
the new girl in school. Even though she was alone and bullied in her
first week, eventually she gained new friends who make her realize that
there is nothing wrong in being different.
THE ART OF CHEATING

CamSur, 2014
Psalm Darel F. Moralde
7:20
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Dan Abordo
Psalm Darel Moralde
Keshia Veluz
Psalm Darel Moralde
Xavier Membrano, Gio Nabong, Renze Segubiense, Fel Payte,
Keshia Veluz, Dan Abordo, Psalm Darel Moralde
During an intense exam, a young, unprepared schoolboy reveals his
cleverness in the art of cheating.
EXISTENTIAL EXITS ANIA ANG ANAA
PUNTA
Bacolod, 2015
Raygen Gonzales
14:40
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Raygen Gonzales
Raygen Gonzales, Jy Labtic
Group 3 Bacollywood 2015 Film Production Class
Ramil Satingasin Jr.
Kurt Soberano, Dani Dingcong, Shaolin Javier, Jy Labtic
Since their parents passing, Joshua has been abused by his brother,
thus the youth feels isolated and unwanted. His best friend Sophia
tried to show comfort and hope things will get better someday then
she had to move to a different city. This may be Joshuas breaking point.
SKY IS EVERYWHERE
Batangas, 2014
Ralph Quijano
7:15
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Ralph Quijano & Francesca Lee

Ralph Quijano
Ralph Quijano
Ralph Quijano
Jesus Manuel Torno, Rael Tan, Renerio Concepcion, Enemeralda Quijano
After losing his father, the son reflects on the things left for him: a
widowed mother, an inherited disease and a life to live or leave.
ANG PAGPUKAW SA
AKONG DAMGO
Davao, 2014
Arnel Barbarona
11:35
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Mylene Mamalias
Arbi Barbarona
Racky Malaki III, Yam Palma, Red Motion Media
Arbi Barbarona
Jeff Sabayle, Leon Theodore Labang, Jea Lyca Cinco, Jean Kirvy Waga
A father comes to terms with the loss of his wife and son. A cinematic
foray into the boundaries of reality and imagination, the film crosses the
line between dreams and waking, madness and sanity, life and death.
PUKOT
Dumaguete, 2014
Lilit Kugler
9:18
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Lilit Kugler
Raoul Andrei S. Tatel
Francis James Kho, Mark James Kho
Pidel Candia, Jomar Restauro, Jowel Restauro
At a crowded terminal, an old man enters a bus. But its not just a bus,
its the bus that will take him on a journey through time and space - back
to his roots, back to his past.
WAWA
Rizal, 2014
Anj Macalanda
10:10
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Anj Macalanda
Anj Macalanda, Arbi Barbarona, Theo Lozada
Anj Macalanda
Arbi Barbarona
Frank Daniel Atutubo, April Ramos
A young boys journey down the river with his widowed mother as they
bring his fathers remains to a final resting place.
GENDER BLENDER SAKSAK SINAGOL
MAWALA MANG LAHAT

CamSur, 2013
Randy Dagooc
3:20
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Randy Dagooc, Kim Pintor

Randy Dagooc
Randy Dagooc
Randy Dagooc
Chucky Enciso, Kim Pintor, Mikee Calimbas, Nelson Llenaresas, Jan Keifer
Chucky, who is openly gay, crawls the city of Maogmang Lugar (Happy
Place) every night seeking random guys for hook ups. He then falls in
love with an innocent bystander Luis, but little did Chucky know that
he is already caught on a web of revenge.
ANG PANGACUPAS
NING MATINGCAD
CUNG CULE
Pampanga, 2014
Jerome Cunanan
8:29
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Jerome Cunanan
Jerome Cunanan
Jerome Cunanan, Mark Raymond Mendoza
Mark Raymond Mendoza & Teddy Anthony Chua Valdez
Joe Galang, VJ Tacliad
A killer is at large targeting gays in the area. His current victim, after
being given a last meal, argues with him and recites a rousing message
against the killers homophobia.
WORLD WAR TEH

Ozamis, 2014
Manolo Ivy Bocar
19:40
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Mary Mae Suero, Brian Lee Cabucos

Niel Carlo Nagtalon
Jeffrey James Ocang
Manolo Ivy Bocar
Robert James Tenio, Gabriel de Bortoli, Maria Zarya Suan
Jonas, self-proclaimed girl magnet, has issues with his gay father. He
once beat up a gay guy to prove his manliness. One day, he wakes up in
an alternate world when everything is reversed: being gay is typical, and
being straight is mocked and detested.
JULIE
Cebu, 2015
Clanch Dayve Belleza
29:05
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Clanch Dayve Belleza

Chad Mendez
Clanch Dayve Belleza, David Cruz, Albert Chan Paran
Melde Montaez
Albert Chan Paran, Michael Banaynal, Maria Presa Aparis,
Norwin Macalua, Richard Allan Baz Uy
Julian Capoy, Julie as he is fondly called, has been working in
construction for twenty-two years, hiding his real sexuality. His
seemingly alternatively perfect life will change in a day, all because of a
busted bathroom doorknob.
THIS LAND IS MINED YUTANG GIMINA
NANGISIT NGA DARAG

Cagayan, 2014
Rommel Ruiz
15:07
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Rommel Ruiz
Raymond Manglo
Rolando Ruiz, Vargas Corp.
Mark Vincent Labrador
Herald Gregory Chavez, Kristine Flores
A family of fishers struggle with life by the sea. Eventually their future is
in jeopardy by mining activity near their only home.
THIS LAND IS MINED YUTANG GIMINA
PASUON
Nabunturan, 2014
Bryan Jimenez
21:00
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C
Bryan Jimenez
Bryan Jimenez
MTCNI Nabunturan
Arnel Barbarona
Louie Logronio, Neil Cervantes, Julius Robles, Bahabbek Santiago,
Warren Autentico
In a remote area in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley, a young man Bodong

stumbles upon a river abounding with gold. He tries to keep it a secret, but
his life gets complicated when his friend confronts him about the site. Greed
begins to brew between the two as they fight to take control of the gold.
Full Length / FMA THEATER, AUGUST 7
CLOSING
GUKOD SA HAPAK SA BALUD

(Chasing Waves; 2015)
Davao
92 minutes
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Charliebebs Gohetia
Charliebebs Gohetia
Charliebebs Gohetia
Lu Chin Bon, Charliebebs Gohetia
McRobert Nacario
Filjun Sevilla, RJ Sasuman, Glorypearl Dy, Eleazar Pansacala, Divina Bantawig
Sipat and his family live in the remote southern Philippines community
of Panyan. Forced by their landlord to leave the mountains, they
migrate to the unfamiliar seaside. Nervous but excited, Sipats greatest
dream of experiencing the beach will be fulfilled. He counts down the
days to his departure with his best friend En-En, unaware of what the
future will hold.
Short Film / FMA THEATER, AUGUST8
C.S.I. K.S.I
BANTAY SALAKAY
Iloilo, 2014
Reymundo Salao
26:00
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Reymundo Salao
Stephen Villarante, Mia Reyes, Reymundo Salao
Reymundo Salao, Jason O. Genterola, Mia Reyes
Stephen Villarante
Noemi Inayan, Dennis Hubag, Hermogenes Gacho Jr., Drox Sanchez,
Don Barruela, Jann Galino, Stanly Abdul Colocar, Stephen Villarante
Small-time thugs rob a large amount of money from a victim. But the
thugs are not aware that somebody is watching their every move.
C.S.I. K.S.I
TAKAY
CamSur, 2014
Jenn Romano
24:22
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Jenn Romano
Jenn Romano
Maries May Atutubo, Karen Ann Camata, Jennifer Lyn Romano
Gerard Asay, John Frances Benavente
Bernice Paita, Jec Claro, Cleorata Naag, Marc Christian Felix
Takay, a boarder who goes missing one morning and leaves the rest of
the tenants under the meticulous queries of Agent Cadunong. In the
discriminate eyes of the investigator, everything about the disappearance
revolves around the Takays fellow boarders and the apartments caretaker.
GETTING TERMINATED GITIWASAN
SOMBRA
Zamboanga, 2014
Sheena Mae Alcala
14:20
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Sheena Mae Alcala

Czarina Lynne Yecla
BA Comm Batch 2016
Princess Jade Monce, Czarina Lynne Yecla
Michael Ramiro, Geraldine Esteban, Michael Caleb Baul, Evelyn Espiritusanto
Something strange is happening in a house with four people wandering
about it the father, mother, son, and whore all are preoccupied by
an unfixed bathroom light, a phone carelessly hung up, and a shared bottle
of grape juice.
GAID
Iloilo, 2014
Tara Illenberger
20:00
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Tara Illenberger
Carolyn Egoaras
Bonfire Productions
Elvert Benares
Allain Hablo, Nathan Jalbuena, Emilyn Espera
A police officer analyzes the possible motive for a string of murders in
the city, all the while dealing with lost love. In the end, his passions led
to an unexpected outcome.
BAHIG
Dumaguete, 2014
Raoul Tatel
9:50
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Mark James Kho & Francis James Kho
Jomar Solania & Morielle Alaton
Fernando lives his life with fine line details on how he wants it to
be and how he wants to look. Then an unexpected visitor, co-worker
Maria, makes herself at home, causing a mess that tortures Fernando.
HULAGWAY SA
MAMUMUNO
GenSan, 2015
Bryan Wong
9:45
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Bryan Wong
Bryan Wong
Bryan Wong
Bryan Wong, Ron Makarunggala
Bryan Wong, Ronaldo Makarunggala, Ruel Nacion, Dennis Montalban,
Lito Nacion, Alexes Arobo, AJ Arobo, Noryln Arobo
After his wife and daughter were brutally murdered by a hitch hiker, Ben
Castro goes into the killing spree; and picks up hitch hikers and kills them,
believing that each victim is the one who had murdered his family.
TWILIGHT ZONE LUGAR SA PAGKABANAG-BANAG
IMPERFECT
Cavite, 2015
Olga Vivero and Joyce Gula
3:39
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Clarissa Osorio
Joyce Samantha Gula
Umbrella Productions
Joyce Samantha Gula
Nedilynn Dominique Gutierrez
This is a story about how fallacy can turn into a reality and the
entanglement of ones self with a notion that beauty lies within
perfection. Just when you think you knew everything about beauty,
here comes reality: the ugly truth.
THE CLOSET
Davao, 2014
Catherine Abe
17:51
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Catherine Abe
Catherine Abe
Catherine Abe
Catherine Abe
Coleen Regis, Jessa May Bonguyan, Jezreel Laru-an, Klariz Sustiaga,
Micca Villasencio, Charlene Faye Ortega
A girls life revolves around playing with her dolls; talking to them and
giving them a bath. Then one day, she sees a lady she wants to turn into
one of her playmates.
HAPPY FIESTA
Sherlyn Legaspi Doloriel
9:11
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Joe Bacus and Orpheus Nery

Joe Bacus
Sherlyn Doloriel
Joe Bacus
Sherlyn Doloriel, Maximilian Samstag
A man and a woman meet, but what happens before and after proves to
be more interesting especially when told backwards.
BAGABAG
Adrian Ray Manapil
24:30
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Jewel Dragon
Adrian Rey Manapil
Edwin delos Santos, Jr., ACPAE Films
Grace Salvador, Vanessa Chiu, Scarlette Cua, Carmi Talimio, Phillip Dagoc
Leonor asks school teacher Grasya to take care of her daughter Yzel
while Leonors away at work overseas. Unfortunate events, riddled
with fear and mystery, bind all three of them together.
HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER TAHURON IMONG AMAHAN UG INAHAN
LA PRADERA
Ozamis, 2014
Esther Sumalpong and
Jevelyn Ramo
19:56
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Shahani Bib Talaroc

Arjie Belhot
Jeffrey James Ocang & Arjie Belhot
Billy Jun Jabonillo, Leo Mari Caete
Honey Grace Bulahan, Mark Anthony Codera, Mary Lurleen Magpulong
Abused as a young girl, Celia is now being maltreated and raped by her
husband. She gives him money and sees him cheating on her in their
own home. Her grief and anger lead to tragedy.
NILUSAK
Nabunturan, 2014
Dally Boncales and
Faith Labrador Prieto
19:00
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C
Dally Boncales, Faith Labrador Prieto

Bryan Jimenez
BLGU-Sta. Maria
Bryan Jimenez
Honey Mae Aznar, Faith Labrador Prieto, Jerloyd Basilio
Earning a living by selling mashed banana in the neighborhood, Nene
lives with an abusive uncle. Eventually she finds an opportunity that
will possibly grant her freedom.
SANCTISSIMA
Cebu, 2015
Kenneth L. Dagatan
15:20
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Kenneth L. Dagatan, Mariya Lim

Karl Lucente and Kenneth Dagatan
Frances Marie Nuez
Ruel Dahis Antipuesto
Ligaya Rabago, Chai Fonacier, Gen Mijares, Jaylou Dari, Nicole Blackman
and Lyka Flare Ruela
Marisa lives in the dark with an even darker secret. The outside world
threatens to reveal it, she fights back to protect her precious secret.
TRUE BROMANCE BROMANSANG TINUOD
LISYON QNG GEOGRAFIA

Pampanga, 2014
Petersen Vargas
20:00
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Petersen Vargas
Sari Estrada, Cy Bautista
Charms Valenzuela, Lolita Vargas
Carlos Mauricio
Earl Policarpio, Ross Pesigan
Before leaving Pampanga for good, Tib chances upon an old map that
triggers him to retrace the places that are special to him and his best friend
from high school Tric.
PANANAW
Davao, 2014
Catherine Abe
8:43
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Catherine Abe
Catherine Abe
Catherine Abe
Catherine Abe
Julianne Locostales, Ian Edward Lapa, Dames Veloso, Ezekiel
Alferez, Xavier Tirol
Three boys, having fun and drinking, invites a passing girl to join them.
The morning after, they discover something amiss
APASOL
Zamboanga, 2014
Ryanne Murcia
19:00
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Ryanne Murcia
Ryanne Murcia
Monabelle Blanco-Delgado, Julius Lapasaran, Ivy Mejorada,
Cherry Ancheta, Esterlina Murcia
Xeph Suarez
Ikoh Alcuizar, Ryanne Murcia
Mark and El spend their last afternoon of love and farewell together,
wishing on a tree and waiting to fade with the sun.
NO LEFT TURN AYAW LIKO SA WALA
JOSEPHINE
Cebu, 2014
Akie Yano
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Karl Lucente
Vivian Yano, Takenori Kurihara
Dom Dycaico
Sara Valiente, Matt Daclan, Umi Futagawa
A Filipino mail-order bride in Japan comforts herself with memories
of her daughter and her ex-lover in order to cope with loneliness. How
long will her memories of the past help her escape the present?
SUSMARYOSEP
Samar, 2015
Noriel Jarito
19:27
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Noriel M. Jarito
Noriel M. Jarito
Noriel M. Jarito
Jake Pinca, Mae Amande, Jeff Pinca
This film is about a love triangle between three young
people named Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
PANANAW
Dumaguete, 2014
Juliet Cuizon and Raoul Tatel
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Juliet Cuizon
Joe Therese Francisco, Onna Quizo, Bruce Lloyd Limbo,
Rechi Gideon Pableo
A young womans perception of life is completely changed when
lifes harsh realities confront her.
CLOSING
INUKBAN
Davao, 2014
Michael Jamir Mallari
13:17
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Jamir Mallari
Lew Avila
Nilda Mallari
Jeff Sabayle, Aubrey Sabayle, Jamir Mallari
A man loses sight of his dreams because of odds in life, he almost gets
it back until a family tragedy occurs.
Full Length / FMA THEATER, AUGUST8
CLOSING
SONATA MARIA
Davao, 2014
Bagane Fiola
72 minutes
Bagana Fiola, Christine Salazar, Melona Grace Mascarinas, Margaux Denice Garcia
Bagane Fiola
P Bagana Fiola, Mark Limbaga, Wrap Meting
DoPh Wrap Meting, Mark Limbaga
C Johnny Hager, PK Whittmer, Ferdinand Mesias, Christianne Falcon, Gail Royeca
Ex-band member and call center agent Ramon Bonifacio, who shares the same
birthday with Andres Bonifacio, navigates reality and fantasy as he comes to terms
with his existential crisis and his suppressed affection for Maria, a former bandmate.
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BALIKBAYAN #1:
MEMORIES OF
OVERDEVELOPMENT
REDUX III
Baguio, 2015
Kidlat Tahimik
146 minutes
Malaya Camporedondo, Charlie Fugunt, Chuck Gutierrez, Abi Lara, Clarence Sison
Voyage Studios
DoPh Santos Bayucca, Kawayan de Guia, Kidlat de Guia, Abi Lara, Lee Meily,
Kidlat Tahimik, Boy Yiguez
C Mitos Benitez, Kidlat Tahimik, George Steinberg, Kawayan de Guia,
Kabunyan de Guia, Katrin de Guia, Wig Tysmans

Language is the key to the empire. Enrique is the slave of Ferdinand Magellan,
who circumnavigated the globe. Aside from bathing Magellan every evening, Enrique
also has to translate Filipino languages into Portuguese and Spanish. The film opens
with a cardboard box containing film rolls being dug up from the ground. Shot in 1980
and now showing their age, the images tell the story of the circumnavigation. Magellan
died shortly before the journey was completed, but had authorized that Enrique, now
by default the first true circumnavigator, was to become a free man. Enrique carved his
memories of the journey into wood, with the sculptures adorning his garden. Balikbayan
#1 weaves together the official story with that of Enrique, as well as with the directors cut
of what Tahimik started filming 35 years ago, in order to find out the truth and continued
in a village in the province of Ifugao in 2013.
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PROGRAMS
LUZON
Katrina Ross Tan
Although there is considerable decrease in full-length film
productions in Luzon regions last year compared with the last
two years because of subsequent decrease in grants from festivals,
those produced proved important in the development of regional
filmmaking. For instance, Magkakabaung (The Coffin Maker)
directed by Kapampangan filmmaker Jason Paul Laxamana bagged
top prizes including Best Film in local and international festivals.
The film continues its rounds in international
festivals this year. Produced by local producers and not through
grants from festivals, Magkakabaung shows that making films in
the regions need not be dependent on grants and that it can be
sustainable.
Independent filmmaking is also alive in northern Luzon, and it is
interesting to note that an alternative distribution system exists,
particularly in Benguetfilms are made straight to DVD and
peddled door-to-door or sold in Baguio City. One example is an
Igorot film made and distributed independently by Boyong Daguines
(director) titled, Buso/Busol, The Last Headhunters to Christianity.
A lot of Igorot films are actually made independentlya quick
search in Youtube will show results of these films trailers. This
means that local filmmaking in the North is flourishing, and it is
high time that a regional film festival is organized there so that
it can showcase the films to a larger audience and sustain local
filmmaking.
Festival grants, however, remain to be a primary funding source
of regional filmmakers, and it is apparent in the documentaries
produced by Sine Totoo of GMA 7. Three documentary films from
Luzon were produced in that festival; two of which are showing in
Cinema Rehiyon 7. These are Lester Valles Walang Rape sa Bontok,
which won the top prize, and Universe Baldozas Marciano. The
other one is Ferdinand Balunags Agbalbalitok about Benguet

miners working in a small rundown gold mine.
Down south of Luzon, an inter-region collaboration in film
production was also made possible through a festival grant.
Arnel Mardoquios Alienasyon, produced by Quezon City Film
Commission, was made by crew from Davao, Cavite, and Laguna
and cast from Manila and Laguna. It was mostly shot in Los Baos,
Laguna, providing an on-the-job training for young filmmakers in
the Calabarzon region. Such exchange is one modality how regional
filmmaking can be continuously developedevery region helping
other regions.
Last year during the run of Cinema Rehiyon Reloaded Caravan,
screenings were held in three regional centers namely, Baguio
City, Laoag City and Legazpi City, to reach out to places where a
regional film festival is not yet in place or where local filmmaking
is not yet active. The goal is to introduce regional filmmaking in
the hope that the audiences are encouraged to make films and/or
organize workshops and festivals. Interestingly, we found out that
a horror film festival is held annually in Laoag City sponsored by
Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos. Baguio City is home to a lot of
artists, filmmakers included, although a film festival has not been
held there for years. Legazpi City is one curious case. Legazpi City
being a regional center in Bicol, one would expect a lively art scene
there, including filmmaking, but it is not yet the case.
While some regions in Luzon, such as Baguio, Pampanga, Cavite,
Batangas, Laguna and Naga, have established local festivals and
film scenesome outputs of which are programmed in CR 7
there are a lot more cities and provinces in Luzon that have none.
This is the challenge that confronts us: to spread the practice and
advocacy that is regional filmmaking.
CALABARZON Scene on the Rise

By: Neville Carbon
Hayskul dir. Darlene Pearl Ramos

ImPerfect dir. Olga Vivero and Joyce Gula
Kahit sa Anino dir. Lexian Losley Avestruz
Sky is Everywhere dir. Ralph Quijano
Ugkat dir. Alyssa Mariel Suico
Wawa dir. Anjelie Macalanda
For five consecutive years, Pelikultura has been the honing ground
for aspiring filmmakers in the Calabarzon region. With the aim to
empower the regions filmmakers, the festival continues to nurture
our young, dynamic filmmakers. This is an avenue and a platform
for future endeavors in the field of filmmaking.
Laguna and UPLB served as the home for our regional film festival
for the past four years. This year, Cavite was given the opportunity to
host and continue the tradition that I myself, as a young filmmaker
was nurtured with. The 5th Pelikultura Film Festival was held at
De La Salle University on February 2015. We were overwhelmed
with the number of entries this year, as weve showcased 20 films
in competition (10 narrative and 10 experimental films), and 15
films in exhibition.
This years Pelikultura Film Festival was packed with talented
filmmakers from across the Calabarzon region. The quality of work
continues to develop each and every year. This years best film Sky
is Everywhere by two-time winner Ralph Quijano and Ugkat by
Alyssa Suico are proof of the brilliance that Calabarzon filmmakers
possess when it comes to molding their personal stories through
film. Last years documentary film winner Anj Macalanda ventured
into fiction with her film Wawa which won the Jury Prize award,
has won several awards in UPs POV, selected for exhibition at
Cannes Film Festival and is a finalist of this years Cinemalaya Film
Festival. Lexian Losley Avestruz returns to Cinemarehiyon 7 with
his film Kahit sa Anino, which made its debut in Pelikultura.
Two of the festivals finalists were also included in this years CR7
selection. I can say that both are the younger and the future
generation of Calabarzon filmmakers. ImPerfect by Olga Vivero
and Joyce Gula of De La Salle University - Dasmarias foreshadows
the fallacy of beauty in their 3 minute experimental short film. The
youngest of all the finalists, Darlene Pearl Ramos has captivated a
lot of audiences with her film Highschool.
Outside Pelikultura, Calabarzon filmmakers are making their
mark on the industry. Two filmmakers from Cavite are finalists of
Cinemalaya 2015; Papetir by Darwin Novicio and Kyel by Arvin
Belarmino.
In line with organizing this years Pelikultura, we have organized a
group known as Cavite Filmmakers Association. The organizations
goal is to create a solid network of filmmakers that will help and
support each other in improving and creating a filmmaking scene
in the province of Cavite, as well as to promote and support the
filmmaking scene in the CALABARZON Region. As for the last
couple of years, Cavite was not really well known for having a
scene and is sadly one of the poorest contributors when it comes
to film output.
The organization is newly formed and needs a lot of support and
help, as the main problem lies with the members commitment
and priorities. Hopefully, our home-born filmmakers will find the
passion to collaborate and help raise the filmmaking scene in our
province. Will it bloom or not? Only time will tell.
PAMPANGA Situationer
By Jason Paul Laxamana
Lisyon Qng Geografiya dir. Petersen Vargas

Mis Da Ka (I Miss You) dir. Carlo Catu
Qng Pangacupas Ning Matingcad Cung Cule (Fadeaway) dir. Jerome
Cunanan
The 4th CineKabalen Kapampangan Film Festival (CKFF4), held in
December 2014, saw a decrease in the total number of submissions.
From CKFF3s 25, the total submitted short films in CKFF4 went
down to 17. But
a closer look at the submissions proves that this decrease in
quantity isnt necessarily a bad thing.
One reason behind the decrease is the fact that a lot of Kapampangan
filmmakers who participated in past editions of CKFF chose to
collaborate instead of making individual entries. As a result, a
noticeable increase in both technical and creative quality is evident
in most of the entries. The organizers, including myself, see this
as an improvement, as we have made have agreed that instead of
getting 30 plus entries, we would prefer to have fewer but better
entries.
The increase in quality is evident in the eventual fate of some of
the entries. The CKFF4 Best Short Film, Mis Da Ka (I Miss You) by
Carlo Catu of Pampanga, for instance, became finalists in the 5th
Singkuwento International Film Festival, along with the Runnerup, Qng Pangacupas Ning Matingcad Cung Cule (Fadeaway by
Jerome Cunanan of Tarlac. Catus film eventually bagged the First
Honorable Mention Short Film in the said festival. Catu has since
moved on to direct his first Kapampangan feature film, Ari (My
Life With A King).
Another entry, Susukdul King Banua (As High As The Sky) by
Cheska Salangsang, a film student from De La Salle College of St.
Benilde, also won the Jury Prize and Best Editing Award in her
schools independent film festival, CineSB.
As the annual staging of CKFF proves to be financially and physically

challenging for the organizers, an eventual disintegration of
the event is looming somewhere on the horizon. Kapampangan
filmmakers, however, have decided that the production of
Kapampangan films should not stop just because CKFF does. It is
for that reason that a number of young Kapampangan filmmakers
decided to band together to form not an organization but a
movement, called KACIMOV, or Kapampangan Cinema Movement.
KACIMOV is a network of Kapampangan filmmakers mainly
from Pampanga and Tarlac who have sworn to fulfill a number
of Kapampangan film-related obligations as enumerated in a
manifesto. The most important items in the manifesto are:
I will make mainly Kapampangan films, or take part in the creation
of Kapampangan films directed by Kapampangan filmmakers,
at least once a year, with or without film festivals, competitions,
or requirement by any institution such as the Church, school, or
work, and I will always bear in mind that every Kapampangan
film I make is not just an expression, reflection, or extension of
myself, but also of this movement, Kapampangan cinema, and of
the Kapampangan community.
The next time you see the KACIMOV logo in the poster or credits
of a Kapampangan film, you will know that the director is a part of
the movement.
Situationer: (for PASALE-Bikol)

By Noel Volante
Mawala Mang Lahat dir. Randy Dagooc

Now Showing dir. Mark Arquilla
The Art of Cheating dir. Psalm Moralde
It all started in 2009 with its forerunner Dalan, a Bikol term which
is a homophone and homograph for road and to watch.
With the creation of the Ateneo de Naga University Center for

Culture and the Arts in 2012, came PASALE.
Pasle: A Film Concourse and Advocacy in Bikol, the regions leg
of CINEMA IN THE REGIONS (CinemaRehiyon) of the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts, under its Film Committee.
Pasale is a Bikol term which means to show and to showcase.
Building a tradition of its own under the new name PASALE, it
is a conference on and a competition in film. Usually running on
a 3-day event, it features film scholars and filmmakers; lectures,
screenings and forum. In Pasale I (2012), invited personalities were
NCCAs very own Mike Rapatan who was then Film Committee
Chair, Manunuris Nic Tiongson and Bacollywoods pride and filmmaker Peque Gallaga. Pasale II (2013)
ventured into a partnership with Film Development Council and
Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino with National Artist for Literature
Ben Lumbera as keynote speaker. A workshop on film critiquing
and review facilitated by UPs Roland Tolentino and AdMUs
Benilda Santos, both from Manunuri, was its
added attraction, breaking away from the usual lectures and
screenings. It also included a special screening of Thy Womb
and First National Artist Gerry De Leons Sisa. It also coincided
with the annual meeting of the National Film Committee in
Naga, alongside the festivals activities. Pasale III (2014) brought
the festival outside its confines with lectures and screenings in a
partner-school University of North Easter Philippines in Iriga City
(30 kilometers south of Naga) and two (2) barangays (Casuray
and San Roque) of AdNUs partner-municipalities: Magarao and
Canaman, both in the Province of Camarines Sur. Bicolano and
veteran actor Jaime Fabregas was a featured guest.
VISAYAS
Who Knows What Love Is: Ang
Gugma Para sa Mga Taga Visayas
by Elvert de la Cruz Baares and Maria Victoria Beltran
Love seems to unite the Visayan films, with each filmmakers tackling
love in various ways. Like love itself, each filmmakers motivations
is difficult to quantify through words much less through visuals.
In award-winning filmmaker Tara Illenbergers Gaid, love drives
two people insane - both seek answers to questions driven by
their emotional attachment. Illenbergers first Hiligaynon short in
a seven year lull is both sincere and inspired. Instead of forcing
Ilonggo culture in her film, she creates a
scenario wherein Ilonggos are like any other.
Raygen Gonzales Punta is also about love fleetingly shared by
two youngsters. A product of the annual Bacollywood Workshops,
Punta suggests a quick escape as a solution. Gonzales carefully
stages a grand act of love and devotion with a dramatic twist, that
perhaps only few can truly understand.
Reymundo Salaos Bantay Salakay ironically tackles love in satire.
Ego, power and insecurity are confused for love. Many character
motivations are hardly traced to love, situations show where its
used to turn people to its pawns.
Love for public service is investigated in Mia Reyes Sin-o si Mel
Carreon? a short documentary about a man with the longest record
in running for Iloilo City public office but never won any seat. Reyes
takes Carreon seriously even if the Ilonggos do not. Seen only as
a comical figure and a nuisance during election time, Carreon is
given a venue to show what he can offer.
Yuhom, by debuting filmmaker Blessel Toledo, shows us a mothers
love for her son. When a charming little boy dreams of going to
Bacolod, the city of smiles, he saves money but his mother has
doubts as to how hes able to do so.
The only full-length film coming from Western Visayas, promising

filmmaker TM Malones Dapya Sang Paglaum is a documentary
that features typhoon Yolandas survivors in Isla Naborot. Malones
documents the islanders pains, struggles and hopes as theyre
heavily assisted by Project Rebuild, a non-profit charity. The
survivors love for their community and their search for love from
the world outside their ravaged island are the films focus. Most,
if not all films from Iloilo comes from the Cinekasimanwa Film
Festival.
Following the theme of love, the same is observed with short
films from Cebu where ardor is existential and extra-diegetic, in
romantic experimentation with film genre and form rather than
just merely containing love and its human expressions in the
storyline or narrative.
Ara Chawdurys Operation Prutas presents Gods love through
His Son, the Blessed Santo Nio. The film explore the theme in a
unique and funny way. Instead of delving into drama to expound
the religious icons influence, this film breaks the mold. Christian
Paolo Lats Red Lights take on the Third World noir is a sight to
behold. Winning the Best Film award in the Ontario Short Film
Festival, Lat is one young filmmaker to watch out for.
Kenneth Dagatans Sanctissima and Ernest Dinos Retaso are
also involved in the cinematic love of genre and form. Dagatans
film expresses his profound infatuation in horror and its visual
subgenres and reveals his influences while Dinos artistic passions
informed his film as the pursuit of the abstract; as love is an ideal,
an abstract concept.
Love as a concept is cinematically explored in both narrative and
form in the films Ivan Martinezs Handumanan sa Usa ka Salida
and Jaylou Daris Handurawan, both award winners at the first
Lilas Binisaya Film Festival. In Martinezs Handumanan, footages
of the past are brought to contemporary life by the narrators lyrical
monologue; a love song to the cinemas timeless, magical wonder
and its powerful effect on ones childhood.
Handurawan is Daris cinema verite on love. As the young poet

who is in love for the first time, Dari attempts to intellectually
identify love, fails then pursues other peoples ideas on the subject.
Despite artful compositions in cinematography and editing, Dari
the director as well as character is truthfully vulnerable.
Dumagutes Lutas Film Festival produced an interesting line up of
films that include Mani, the story of a boy peanut vendor who falls
out of love with school and perhaps life itself. Bahig is about a man
whose life is disrupted by a visitor- there is no love lost here. Pukot
is the only film that perhaps veers away from the Visayan love
theme. It is about a man riding a bus who goes on a trip through
time and space but perhaps it is an experience of love.
Love is truly one mysterious animal. With the Visayan filmmakers,
love gets explored in style, spiced with an interestingly local flavor,
and becomes a way to introduce their culture and locales; how they
see their peoples way of life; and how this can help heal the people
of their lands.
Ang Amon Mga Sintas:

CineKasimanwa in 2014
by Elvert de la Cruz Baares
Bantay Salakay dir. Reymundo Salao

Dapya sang Paglaum dir. TM Malones
Gaid dir. Tara Illenberger
Yuhom dir. Blessel Joy Toledo
If geography is our only gauge to declare the regionality of a
film, one can claim that there has been a drought in Ilonggo
independent cinema for years. Delimiting cultural definitions,
meanings, motivations and particularly visions, do not do justice
to the independent (or even, underground) efforts of many

Western Visayan filmmakers who produced films from wherever
theyre based at. Filmmakers hailing from Iloilo, Bacolod, Aklan,
Capiz, Antique and Guimaras have all been doing their little films,
(admittedly) lacking a unified festival to program and house them.
CineKasimanwa: The Western Visayas Film Festival provided such
creative space for the filmmakers of Region VI every first week of
December since 2013.
2014 was a year of harvest for Ilonggo shorts. A 248% increase
in submissions was recorded not counting films under specific
programs. Ilonggo cinema is, at least for now, experiencing a
second wave of harvest. Not bad at all for a region that had one of
the earliest records of independent short films (in 1994, together
with Cebu and Nueva Ecija, Iloilo was recipient of the first set of
Best Regional Entry awards at the Gawad CCP for Independent
Film).
Eleven full-length films; 3 major film venues; 9 filmmaker/actor
guests who travelled to Iloilo to attend the festival; 6 curated
programs; 52 short films (selected from 87 submissions); eight
short films representing the best of 2013; 12 online films; 5
school tours; 3 satellite screenings including the National Art
Fair; 3 workshops; more than 40 filmmakers in attendance; and
the creation of the Western Visayas Filmmakers Network were the
record of
CineKasimanwa in 2014.
In 2014, three of Iloilos major filmmakers who have not shot short
films in more than seven years world-premiered their new shorts
in CineKasimanwa: Ray Gibraltars Ang Bayu ni Manilyn at ang
Pekeng Duck (Manilyns Dress and the Fake Duck); Joenar Pueblos
Gamhanan (Powerful); and Tara Illenbergers Gaid (Chain).
Meanwhile, TM Malones premiered two new
documentaries: Dapya Sang Paglaum (Waves of Hope) and
Maninina.
Notable Kinaray-a short films from Guimbal programmed in

2014 included Wowa (Best Film, Bantayan 2014) by Joebert
Casas; Paranublion (Inheritance) by Eden Gilpo; Bagangan by Bob
Perez; and, Nice Juan by Arnold Casas. Meanwhile, Reymundo
Salaos Bantay Salakay (To Guard and To Attack), Noel de Leons
Handem (Wish) and Mia Reyes Sino Si Mel Carreon? (Who is Mel
Carreon?) were among the well-received short films by emerging
filmmakers from Iloilo and Guimaras. From the brave shorts
by student filmmakers from Bacolod and Iloilo, the titles that
merited discussion were: Reverie by Angelica Paviliar (Best Film,
Bakunawa Filmfest 2014); Yuhom (Smile) by Blessel Joy Toledo;
Silong (Shelter) by Steven Asaph Reasol; Sa Amay, Sa Anak, Kag
sa Droga (Of the Father, Of the Son and Of Drugs) by Jaip Saluba;
Sirom (Twilight) by Venz Erick Losbaes; and Half Measures by
Gino Genson.
2015 promises to be brighter for CineKasimanwa and Western
Visayan cinema. Given new records in 2014 and the first ever
Regional Film Grants Program targeted to give each province
one representative film (in partnership with Department of
Tourism - Region VI), CineKasimanwa prepares for the challenges
ahead (financial ones, in particular) as it positions itself to be an
enthusiastic and supportive venue for screening and promoting
Western Visayan cinema, deepening the audiences appreciation
for, and awareness of, Ilonggo culture and its rich heritage.
CineKasimanwa believes that film is a great reflection of who we
are as a people. Our dreams, aspirations, lamentations, emotions
and many more can all be found in our films. The festivals tagline
nails it: Aton mga sugilanon. Kay kita ang Sintas. (Our own
stories. Because, we are cinema.)
Lilas Binisaya: For a Brighter Future

of Cebuano Cinema
By Maria Victoria Bambi Beltran
Handumanan sa Usa ka Salida dir. Ivan Martinez

Handurawan dir. Jaylou Dari
On its maiden outing last November 2014, Lilas Binisaya celebrated
with a screening of Manok ni San Pedro (1977) at the site of the
oldest operating movie theater, Cine Oriente, thus giving tribute
to Cebus rich cinematic history and at the same time, welcoming
the promising future that can be seen in the festivals partners and
participants.
The first years competitors showed mastery of technique and
polished visual storytelling in films like Halok and Dream on Bai
both by Hanz Florentino, Urom by James Oliva and Silingan, the
only documentary entry by Dani Bautista.
However, two films outshone the rest by delivering poetic
experiences of profound sincerity and depth. Ivan Martinezs
Handumanan sa Usa ka Salida (Tribute to a Movie) is a personal
love song to the filmmakers favorite memories of Cebuano cinema.
The film breathes new life to old footage through Martinezs own
honest words of wonder. His sentiment is contagious and stirs
ones own reminiscences, to personal attachments to seemingly
forgotten pasts.
In Handurawan (Imagination), Jaylou Daris young poet
experienced love for the first time and gets overwhelmed by his
own infatuation. He tries to think his experience through, asks
other people for their own experiences, and subsequently flees into
his own imagination. Dari writes, directs, shoots, edits and acts his
own personal story and achieves his own truth.
Lilas Binisaya shows that Cebu is an interesting and dynamic
environment that nurtures creative individuality through
institutions and schools. The Film and Media Arts International
Academy, which gave away three scholarships to the first, second and
third best pictures at the Lilas Binisaya Film Festival, shows its willingness
to provide knowledge and opportunities that should help bring about
a diversity of productions. And the Festival will continue to be a venue
for these productions so that the people who produce them can be
acknowledged and awarded for their enthusiasms for what is more than a
popular art or pastime.
DUMAGUETE SITUATIONER
By Mark James Kho
Bahig dir. Raoul Tatel

Mani dir. Mayflower Caponpon
Pukot dir. Lilit Kugler
Emmanuel Noy Dadivas first introduced the discipline of Film in
Foundation University, particularly in the Broadcast Communication
curriculum, 6 years ago.
The BroadCom department still views it as a culture that is yet to be
embraced by the people in the community. It may not be that new but it is
something that is also not being given much attention. Now that the Film
discipline has slowly gained notice, popularity and appreciation from the
public, especially after the locally organized film festival entitled LUTAS
was shown last year in Dumaguete City, Foundation University pledges to
further strengthen its support for Film.
LUTAS serves as the platform for future film festivals that will further
showcase the local works of talented film makers here in Negros Oriental.
MINDANAO
By Rudolph Ian G. Alama
This is my second time as the co-curator for Mindanao films along

with Lou Raphael Dax Canedo. This time we are joined by Mr.
Teddy Co in the selection of films as this involves programming the
selections through genres or themes.
Being curator again I would rehash the word growth in the
quantity and also quality of our regional films and noticeable is the
gradual shift of films produced far from the regional film centers of
Davao City, Cagayan de Oro and Zamboanga into the provinces of
Compostela Valley and Sarangani Province.
These fledgling film movements provide fresher locales, stories,
new perspectives. Take for example Pasuon shot in the scenic
barrio in Nabunturan is a riveting tale based on the discovery of
gold deposits in the fabled Mt. Diwata.
Socksargen which in the past stagings of Cinemarehiyon has
presented us with indigenous peoples themed short films is
represented again this time with Lafis ni Efung and Kena.
This years batch of films will also highlight the creativity of regional
filmmakers. The films Pinakalami na Apol Pie and Pagpukaw sa
Akong Damgo were shot using Nokia Lumia Windows phone. These
films being part of the Guerrilla Filmmaking Competition which
requires contestants to shoot their films within 24-hours using
mobile smart phones given to them for the duration of the contest.
Joe Bacus The End of War brings to fore ambition and scale with
an all-out war scene utilizing production design and special effects
talents.
As with observations from past Cinemarehiyons that Mindanao
has one of the most active filmmaking movements in the country,
this years batch is the mirror of such dynamism.
Mananaw na ta ug salida.
Mindanao Filmmaking:
Beyond the Horizon
By Rudolph Ian Alama
Ang Pinakalami Na Apol Pie dir. Chico Christie Pace

Ang Pagpukaw Sa Akong Damgo dir. Arnel Barbarona
Apasol dir. Ryanne Murcia
Baril Ni Polding Na Way Polbora dir. Abert Egot, Jr.
Kena dir. Anjeilee Marie Pacuin
Pahiyom na Boye dir. Hugh Montero
Pananaw dir. Catherine Abe
The Closet dir. Catherine Abe
The growth particularly the increase in the number of films and film
festivals in Mindanao is a no longer an ominous sign but rather a
stamp that the artistic movement has established a firm foothold
and hopefully it would realize into a full-blown film industry.
Take for example the Mindanao Film Festival which I had headed
since 2012. Three years back in my first foray as festival director we
had 34 short films featured as entries, the following year we had 55
films then last year MFF screened about 70 films.
Most of the films are coming from other provinces and regions,
for example Nabunturan, Socksargen (South Cotabato, Koronadal,
Sarangani and General Santos), Northern Mindanao and
Zamboanga filmmakers have made it a point to have their annual
December pilgrimage to Davao City to have their films featured at
the mecca of Mindanao filmmaking -Gaisano Mall Cinema 6.
Aside from MFF we had a number of younger film festivals organized
in the regions. We had Cinemagis in Cagayan de Oro, CineMo in
Iligan City, Nabunturan Independent Film Exhibition or Nabifilmex
in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley Province, Salamindanaw
International Film Festival and the Lantawan Socksargen Film
Festival in Socksargen. I am hoping that Zamboanga or Western
Mindanao who also have an active filmmaking movement could
organize their own film festival in that part of Mindanao.
The presence of these film festivals augurs well for these filmmakers
as it provides more venues for them to show their films and expand
their audience. For example Joe Bacus from Cagayan de Oro has
entered his short film The End of War in the Mindanao Film
Festival, The Nabifilmex,
and Salamindanaw where it won the Gold Durian Prize for Best
Mindanao Short Film.
Same with films from Nabunturan like Nilusak which are also
entered in the MFF and the Lantawan film festival.
In 2014, we were tapped by the Mindanao Development Authority
to create an international film festival focusing on the BIMP-EAGA
countries (Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean
Growth Area), it was to be timed for the BIMP-EAGA IMT-GT
(Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Growth Triangle) Trade Fair and
Business Leaders Conference held in Davao City.
We came up with the first East Asean Film Festival (EAFF) held at
the Cinematheque Davao, the small film festival was participated
by films from Mindanao, Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei, border
regions which also had a thriving regional filmmaking movements.
There are plans of holding the second EAFF in Kota Kinabalu with
our Sabahan counterparts initiating the move.
Salamindanaw International Film Festival also featured 11 Asian
short films in its Asian Shorts Competition. With the exception of a
short film from India most of the films entered are from Southeast
Asia. The city of Makkasar in Sulawesi was represented in the film
festival held in General Santos City.
Singapore based online-based film portal Viddsee has also shown
interest in partnering with Mindanaoan filmmakers it recently
featured the MFF Best Film winner Pasuon in its site.
The recent initiatives of foreign linkages particularly the

neighboring filmmaking movements in the fringes of Indonesia and
Malaysia will definitely be a game changer, this will be a beginning
of a dream for an intra-Asean cinema, Mindanao audiences will get
to watch a short film from Malaysia ,and Indonesian audiences will
get to watch a film from Nabifilmex or Cinemagis.
These are indeed exciting times for the Mindanao filmmaker.
NABIFILMEX:
Fulfilling Hopes,Fueling Dreams
By Karen O. Santiago-Malaki
Festival Director, NABIFILMEX
It all started with the objective of the Municipal Tourism Council

of Nabunturan, Inc. (MTCNI) to promote Nabunturan, the
capital town of Compostela Valley Province, as a relevant tourism
destination in the Philippines. Unfortunately, Typhoon Pablo
devastated most of its promising eco and agri-tourism spots in
December 2012. Focus was then shifted into capitalizing on the
talents of Nabunturanons, thus the concept of events tourism was
considered.
Sometime in March 2013, Bryan Jimenez, the then Vice President
of MTCNI, relayed to the council that he had a friend who had
connections with award winning filmmakers who were conducting
filmmaking workshop in General Santos City. MTCNI readily
grabbed the opportunity to request them to come to Nabunturan.
The first filmmaking workshop dubbed as the Sine Indie Film
Workshop 1 was conducted on May 24-27, 2013 and was attended
by students, teachers and Sangguniang Kabataan officers. The
workshop speakers, namely, Directors Arnel Mardoquio, Aureus
Solito and Ed Cabagnot encouraged the group to organize a film
festival to showcase the workshop output.
The Nabunturan Independent Film Exhibition (NABIFILMEX) 1

was held as one of the activities of the 19th Simballay Festival, an
annual festival of the Municipality of Nabunturan on December 1720, 2013 at the school gym of Assumption College of Nabunturan.
It was peppered with trials. Foremost of all was the fact that
Nabunturan has no cinema house. It seemed absurd to some vocal
critiques which resulted to the animosity of some local leaders of
the municipality. Second was the lack of equipments
and the insufficient funds to produce the local films. Third was the
disinterest of the towns people to watch independent films.
Despite the challenges, NABIFILMEX 1 was a success. Five films
by local filmmakers were competed, namely, Badjang by William
Ranara and Dally Boncales, Sepulturero by Jimmy Abayon, Amog
by Racky Malaki III, Tuwalya by Prescila A. Decena and Wagas
by Gemmila Sophia Alonsabe. With the help of Direk Arnel
Mardoquios networks, 25 films from Davao City, General Santos,
Zamboanga and UP Los Banos were also in competition and 10
were in exhibition. The local film Badjang won the Gimadyawan
Award for best film. After NABIFILMEX 1, Badjang was also invited
in Pelikultura: Calabarzon Film Festival and in the CineSB Film
Festival of the College of St. Benilde where it won the Audience
Choice Award. Badjang, Sepulturero and Amog were also featured
in Cinema Rehiyon 6 in Cagayan de Oro City. These humble
accomplishments propelled MTCNI in cementing the efforts for
NABIFILMEX.
Preparation for NABIFILMEX 2 started in the early part of 2014
by forging partnerships and networks with the end view of
sustainability. Taking advantage of the K to 12 curriculum and
the Special Program for the Arts, MTCNI partnered with the
Department of Education Compostela Valley Division. It formed
a symbiotic relationship whereby the teachers and students would
learn filmmaking with a venue to showcase their output. In return,
the partnership assured MTCNI a steady source of local films and
audience for NABIFILMEX. Coming with the partnership was
a funding support for Sine Indie Film Workshop 2 which was
conducted on June 18-20, 2014.
The other very significant partnership was forged with the Open
Air Cinema Foundation of the Human Security dot Org. It is
an international organization which promotes alternative film
exhibition by open air screening of local and independent films.
The foundation, through its Director Blaine Johnson, brought for
the first time in the Philippines its 10x20 feet inflatable screen and
high definition projector for free.
MTCNI also sought the support of the Local Government Unit of
Nabunturan to hold NABIFILMEX 2 as an event separate from its
local festival. The LGU provided the venue at the municipal plaza
and allowed the closure of a street to accommodate more audience
and for security purposes. The LGU also granted financial assistance
that included an amount as seed money for film production and
technical support.
MTCNIs proposal to the National Commission on Culture and
Arts (NCAA) was also approved by the Film Committee making
NABIFILMEX as one of the festivals supported by the agency.
MTCNI also partnered with the Musikahan Foundation, Inc, a
tourism organization of the neighboring City of Tagum to help
in the promotion of the event and for the conduct of road shows.
The road show featured the Cinema Rehiyon Reload as required by
NCCA.
NABIFILMEX 2 was held on October 16-19, 2014. With the novelty
of the inflatable open air screen and the experience of watching
movie in the park, people from all over the Nabunturan and other
municipalities of Compostela Valley flocked to witness the festival.
Also recorded were audiences coming from Tagum City, Davao City
and General Santos City. Per estimate of the Philippine National
Police who provided security in the festival, there were about 500
to 800 people in the audience every night.
20 films were in competition from filmmakers of Nabunturan,
other municipalities of Compostela Valley, Tagum City and Davao
City. Ten of which were produced by the different schools of Deped
Comval with either teachers or students as filmmakers.
The film Nilusak by Dally Boncales and Faith Prieto which was
produced by the Baranggay Council of Sta. Maria, Nabunturan
bagged the Gimadyawan Award for Best Film. The said film was
also invited to Pelikultura: Calabarzon Film Festival, CineSB Film
Festival. It also competed in the Lantawan SOCKSARGEN Film
Festival and in the 10th Mindanao Film Festival where the lead
star won Best Actress.
Other NABIFILMEX 2 films also competed and gained recognitions.
Pasuon by Bryan Jimenez, won Best Film in the 10th Mindanao
Film Festival. It also bagged the Best in Cinematography Award.
Pangindahay by high school student Erl Niko Limos, Mino by
Julius Robles and Bala-Bola by Tata Acusar also competed and
received nominations in the 10th MFF and LSFF. Nilusak, Pasuon
and Pangindahay will also be featured in the Cinema Rehiyon 7 in
Cebu City.
Because of the overwhelming success of NABIFILMEX 2, the
LGU of Nabunturan through its Sangguniang Bayan declared
NABIFILMEX as one of the official festivals of the Municipality and
provided funding thereof.
Preparations for NABIFILMEX 3 is on going with the perfect synergy
of MTCNI and its partners. For its third edition, NABIFILMEX
would go international by inviting filmmakers from other countries
to exhibit their films. Since the call for entries last July 5, 2015,
films from USA, Canada and Italy had been submitted already along
with films from Makati and Osamis City. Filmmakers from Cebu
and Los Baos already sent inquiries. Meanwhile the Nabunturan
and DepEd filmmakers are currently shooting their films with
Direk Arnel Mardoquio serving as mentor. NABIFILMEX 3 is set
on September 16-19, 2015.
For Nabunturan and the entire Compostela Valley Province,
NABIFILMEX is not merely an exhibition of films but a showcase
of talents and skills. It is not all about the process of shooting
sequences but of telling stories relevant to the lives of the
filmmakers and of the place where they belong. It is not just a
contest but an opportunity for regional and budding filmmakers

to have their films viewed by a large audience. It is not any other
event but a celebration of fulfilled hopes and fueled dreams.
cineANIMO:
The 1st Misamis-Zamboanga
Digital Short Film Festival
La Pradera dir. Esther Sumalpong and Jevelyn Ramo
World War Teh dir. Manolo Ivy Bocar
Sombra dir. Sheena Mae Alcala
cineANIMO is the first digital short film festival in the MisamisZamboanga Area, which partly covers Northwestern Mindanao
Region. The festival is primarily intended to harvest the best films
created by college students in the area.
Over the last few years the different universities and colleges in the
Cities of Ozamiz, Tangub, Oroquieta, Dapitan, Dipolog, Pagadian
and Zamboanga have created school film festivals as part of their
school activities (most especially during Intramurals). Some
schools have also required students to create films as part of their
curriculum (as in the case of schools offering
Mass Communication courses). These films are created by nonfilm students as there are no film courses in any school in the area.
However, these films created by aspiring young film enthusiasts
were only shown inside their schools. Hence, the idea of cineANIMO
festival was to showcase the best films for public viewing in a
commercial cinema. It was expected that
cineANIMO would raise the standards of student filmmaking in
this part of the country.
During its first year, cineANIMO showcased 11 film entries from
Ateneo de Zamboanga University and Western Mindanao State
University (Zamboanga City), Saint Columban College (Pagadian
City), Andres Bonifacio College (Dipolog City) and La Salle
University (Ozamiz City).
In the succeeding festivals, we are hoping to bring in more

participation from the different universities and colleges in the
Provinces of Misamis Occidental, Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga
del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur.
Lantawan SOCSKSARGEN Film

Festival (LSFF)
By: Bordie Carillo
Lafis ni Efung dir. Jodan Manua

The 1st Lantawan SOCSKSARGEN Film Festival (LSFF), a regional
film festival, was held in General Santos City (GenSan) last January
16-19, 2015. Organizing a film festival for the SOCSKSARGEN
region is a great challenge to the officers and members of the
SOCSKSARGEN Center for Film Arts, Inc. With the organizations
motivation to provide the proper venue for young filmmakers,
SCFAI has chosen General Santos City as the starting point and
General Santos City Oval Plaza as the venue.
For the SCFAI, holding a film festival for the first time was tough.
Everyone in the organization had not had any experience running
one. However, the event was successful because of the collaboration
with the Open Air Cinema, a foundation, which is based in America
and Thailand. Open Air Cinema brought to GenSan its one of a
kind inflatable screens for higher quality props for the LSFF. It was
generous to give the people of GenSan a first and rare experience
of what an open air cinema is all about. Indeed, for both the
filmmakers and the viewers, the experience was enjoyable.
For Sine SOCSKSARGEN, being the main competition in the
festival, the chosen 9 films have so much diversity in themes
and altogether reflect regional features. The Best film for this
category is Lafis ni Efung by Jodan Manua. The jury said, it has a
deceptively uncluttered plot in its portrayal of a young protagonist
on a journey, both physical and psychological, that slowly unravels

layers of meanings in a humane and simple way.
The 14 films, competing for the category Sine Mindanaw, were
very distinctive in their features because they were lined up among
the award-winning filmmakers in both the regional and national
competitions. The Best film for this category is Ang Pagpukaw sa
Akong Damgo by Arnel Barbarona. The jury cited it for soaring
into poetic fights about love, loss and redemption, using real
geographies, as well as cutting edge mobile phone technology.
In the Exhibition section, there were 9 documentary films from
GenSan, Davao, Comval, Cagayan de Oro and Butuan. In addition,
some Kutabato films and selected films from the Cinema Rehiyon
Reloaded were likewise featured.
The objectives of the LSFF are to develop the aesthetics talents of
the budding filmmakers of SOCSKSARGEN and to make LSFF the
venue to showcase the beauty of the regions diverse culture.
And from this maiden celebration of the LSFF in this part of the
country, SCFAI sees hope and looks forward to its continuity to
further enhance the ability of the young artists in the field of
filmmaking, paving the way towards realizing their dreams.
QUICK HELP GUIDE
NCCA Board of Commissioners
As governed by RA 7356, The National Commission for Culture and the Arts is
governed by aBoard of Commissionerscomposed of 15 members, namely:
Hon. Felipe M. de Leon, Jr.,
NCCA Chairman (Head,Subcommission on the Arts)
Hon. Pia S. Cayetano,
Commissioner (Chairperson, Senate Committee on Education, Arts, and Culture)
Hon. Rep. Kimi S. Cojuangco,
Commissioner (Chairperson, House Committee on Basic Education and Culture)
Hon. Alberto T. Muyot,
Commissioner (Undersecretary for Legal and Legislative Affairs, Department
of Education)
Undersecretary, Department of Tourism
Hon. Virgilio S. Almario,
Commissioner (Chairman, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino)
Hon. Maria Serena I. Diokno,
Commissioner, (Chair, National Historical Commission of the Philippines)
Hon. Jeremy R. Barns, Commissioner (Director IV, National Museum)
Hon. Antonio M. Santos,
Commissioner (Director IV, The National Library of the Philippines)
Hon. Victorino Mapa Manalo,
Commissioner (Executive Director, National Archives of the Philippines)
Hon. Raul M. Sunico,
Commissioner (President, Cultural Center of the Philippines)
Hon. Adelina M. Suemith,
(OIC-Executive Director, National Commission for Culture and the Arts)
Private Sector Representatives
Hon. Orlando B. Magno, Head,Subcommission on Cultural Dissemination

Hon. Harold Ll. Rentoria, OSA, Head,Subcommission on Cultural Heritage
Hon. Al-Anwar J. Anzar,Head,Subcommission on Cultural Communities and

Traditional Arts
NCCA Secretariat
OIC-Executive Director: Adelina M. Suemith
Deputy Executive Director: Marlene Ruth S. Sanchez, MNSA
National Endowment Fund for Culture and the Arts (NEFCA) Division
Head: Herencio Y. Llapitan
Administrative and Finance Division

Chief: Susan C. Dayao
Plan/Policy Formulation and Programming Division (PPFPD)
Chief: Marichu G. Tellano
Arts Section
Head: Ferdinand Isleta
Project Development Officer for Cinema: Vonna Vida Vista
Project Development Assistant: Alvin Soniega
Program Monitoring and Evaluation Division
OIC-Head: Jeremy R. Chan
Culture and Arts Officer for Cinema: Bernadette A. David
Eligibility and Grants Processing Unit:
Head: Christopher Lucindo
Officer in Charge for Cinema: Rodelio Candor
Public Affairs and Information Office
Head: Rene Napeas
International Affairs Office
Head: Mary Anne Luis
National Committee on Cinema
Festival Director
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Curators
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and LOU RAPHAEL CANEDO
GINA ARJONA
CHAI FONACIER
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BARRY CANTON
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RICHARD BOLISAY, Writer/Editor
PAUL S. GRANT, Editor
AVERELL PIRAMIDE, Catalogue Designer
DIEM JUDILLA, Staffer
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DIEM JUDILLA
Festival Volunteers
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Leyte
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MINDANAO
Cagayan De Oro
Joeromer Joe E. Bacus
Judyfind Dumanon
Jasmine Limas
Nef Luczon
Adrian Rey Manapil
Antonio Hesumaria Sescon
Compostela Valley
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Erl Niko Limos
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Davao
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Bagane Fiola
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General Santos
Jodan Manua
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Ozamis
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Zamboanga
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