By LOUI GALICIA, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau 01/22/2009 6:56 PM
Two Filipino filmmakers are already making a name at the 2009 International Film Festival Rotterdam which opened on January 21.
Lav Diaz is nominated for IFFR's Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2009 for his film "Purgatorio."
Diaz has been called "maestro" by IFFR being the master of full-length films. Purgatorio is his first short film.
In fact, one of his films at the festival, "Melancholia" is extremely long and runs 480 minutes.
Diaz is competing with 26 other nominees for films shorter than sixty minutes. A jury will choose three winners who will be awarded 3,000 euros each.
Meanwhile, young filmmaker Raya Martin, who has been dubbed by Dutch press as "wonder boy from the Philippines," received his third grant from the Hubert Bals Fund.
Martin received funding for his digital project "How to Disappear Completely," a documentary-style film following a group of actors trying to survive in the jungle.
The project runs parallel to the making of another Hubert Bals Fund-supported project "Independencia," for which Martin also received funding in the Script Development Category in the HBF Fall 2007.
Another Pinoy who received a grant from Hubert Bals fund is Francis Xavier Pasion in the Script Development Category for his project "Malaya Women Project (The Persistence of Memory)”.
The Hubert Bals Fund is designed to bring remarkable or urgent feature films and feature-length creative documentaries by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion.
It provides grants that often turn out to play a crucial role in enabling these filmmakers to realize their projects.
Winning a grant from the HBF is a big achievement in itself as the competition is very stiff. In order to be selected, filmmakers from southern or developing countries can enter their projects twice a year and hundreds of applications are received in each of the selection rounds.
The Filipino films currently featured at the IFFR are:
Adela, Adolfo B. Alix Jr.
Altar, Rico Maria llarde
Beneath the Cogon, Rico Maria Ilarde
Green Rocking Chair (Juan Baybayin), Roxlee
Manila's Dark Room, Lav Diaz
Melancholia, Lav Diaz
Next Attraction, Raya Martin
Now Showing, Raya Martin
Purgatorio, Lav Diaz
Service, Brillante Mendoza
Stray Heart, Mario Cornejo
Three Days of Darkness, Khvan de la Cruz
The Middle Mystery of Kristo Negro (Day tingnga ti misteryo ti Kristo Negro), Khavn De La Cruz
The festival ends February 1.
SOURCE: WWW.ABS-CBNNEWS.COM
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/01/22/09/filipino-filmmakers-make-waves-rotterdam-filmfest
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment