Gay film wins Indie Un-Film Festival
Feature category and Best Regional Entry at the 30th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video awards night held last August 6 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Tanghalang Manuel Conde.
“Rufyla,” Coleen Tanco‘ s capstone project under the digital filmmaking program of the De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde ( DLSCSB) School of Design and Arts ( SDA) bested more than a hundred entries in the category. It is the first in Benilde Film’s 10- year history to win the grand prize in the Gawad Alternatibo
Tanco, who hails from Koronadal City, South Cotabato, found inspiration for her thesis
“‘ Rufyla’ started when our house helper left us in her pursuit to get married to a foreigner. She is a 23-year-old girl who desired for a good life even if it took her to a red-light district in Manila. She believes that only a wealthy man can save her from poverty. As luck would have it, she nailed it,” Tanco said.
and build a language that helps delineate what it means to be living in a remote area in the southern part of the Philip will root for the indigenous people and make everyone aware not to treat the Filipino culture like a worthless material,” Tanco added after learning about her twin victories.
Rufyla will compete at FACINE 25: The 25th Annual Filipino International Cine Festival from October 18 to 21 in San Francisco, California.
Other Benilde entries “E ” and “Ang Kabit ni Papa ” also won honorable mention in the Experimental category.
Directed by Benilde film alumnus, and now humanities and literature professor Jose Mojica, “E” zeroes in on a man who wakes up in an unfamiliar room and sees a mirror for the first time. By looking at himself, he discovers sexuality and sin.
“AngKabitniPapa” by Benil A SHORT hard time coming to terms with her traditional Filipino father,
Indie Un-Film Festival 2018 last July 21 at the Br. Andrew Gonzales Hall, De La Salle University.
a capstone project of Annika Yañez and Janna Lejano under the Digital Filmmaking program of the DLS- College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts, also won Best Direction for Yañez, Best Cinematography and Best Editing for Lejano, Best Actor for Chase Salazar and Best Soundtrack for song composer M Laciste, song arranger Nick Lazaro and sound mixer and designer Veronica Valdez.
Yañez, who graced the awards night with Lejano, thanked
to share our art to a bigger crowd, and for inspiring all of us
and charged they may be.”
Meanwhile, two films made by Far Eastern University (FEU) students under their Cinema Production (CNM2) classes won a total of six awards during the festival.
bagged Best Pamana Film, Best Cinematography for Rommel Ruiz, Best Production Design for Ron Alos and Best Sound Design for James Manalili. The inaugural Pamana category aims to bring forth stories of Filipino heritage and culture.
Directed by Francis Guillermo its kind in the ASEAN region. A few years ago, it became one of the major components of the annual Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. the continuous disappearances of townsfolk, prompting the
are being brought. Upon conducting a search, he and his son came across a mysterious answer.
Dama directed by Trish Ruedas Antonio, bagged Best Production Design for Reopaolo Nuñez and Best Actor for Rolando Inocencio in the Feature category. Inocencio plays a father who adopts a stray child to cope with his son’s death in a crisis-ridden world. was submit
- munication chair and Film Society adviser Cherish Brillon while Dama was made under the class of former FEU Film Society adviser Seymour Sanchez.
30th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video, also known as Gawad Alternatibo, held from August 4 to 6 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Tanghalang Manuel Conde or CCP Dream Theater.
Organized by the DLSU Green Media Group, the 15th talks, held last July 14 at Warehouse Eight in Chino Roces Avenue, had award-winning scriptwriter Clodualdo “Doy” del Mundo Jr. Antoinette Jadaone, Pepe Diokno, Ice Idanan and Kaj Palanca as speakers.