Film For Brains

Asian Visions Film Festival :

TSAI MING-LIANG
June 29 – July 2, 2010
UPFI Videotheque

Rebels of the Neon God
June 29 / Tue / 5pm
UPFI Videotheque

Golden Horse Film Festival 1992, Golden Horse Award Best Original Score
Tokyo International Film Festival 1993, Bronze Award
Torino International Festival of Young Cinema 1993, Prize of the City of Torino Best Film – International Feature Film Competition

Synopsis:
Rebels of the Neon God (Taiwanese: Ch’ing shaonien ne cha, literally Teenaged Nezha) is a 1992 Taiwanese film by Tsai Ming-liang. It is his first full-length film. It tells two stories of Taipei youth. One details alienated buxiban student Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) and his troubled interactions with his family. The other shows two petty hoods, Ah Tze and Ah Bing, along with Ah Kuei, Tze’s erstwhile girlfriend. An idle act of violence brings the two groups into collision, and an act of revenge at the end completes the circle. It is a story of troubled youth, dissatisfaction, and the alienating effect of urban life.

Much of Rebels of the Neon God is filmed in various arcades and malls in Taipei and on the streets of the city with hand-held cameras. It is filmed in a much more naturalistic manner than some of Tsai’s later work.

The Filipino Freethinkers Film Festival is the first film fest in the Philippines intended to challenge your thinking about belief, faith, and reason.

1:00 – 1:10 Opening: Challenge Religion
1:10 – 2:20 Fun for Heretics
2:20 – 3:10 Root of All Evil Part 1: The God Delusion
3:10 – 4:20 Imagine No Religion
4:20 – 5:10 Root of All Evil Part 2: The Virus of Faith
5:10 – 7:20 Letting Go of God
7:20 – 7:50 Filipino Freethinkers: Year One
7:50 – 8:00 Closing: Celebrate Reason

INDIE UN-FILM 2010
An annual interschool digital film competition!

Categories: Feature, Documentary and Music Video
Deadline for Submission of Entries:February 12, 2010
Submit your entries to:
Room 404, Br. Connon Hall, DLSU-M, Taft Avenue, Manila
Final Screening and Awarding: February 27, 2010
For contest mechanics and application forms, visit our website at http://indieunfilm.multiply.com/.
For inquiries, contact us at:
mobile: 0915-4858223
e-mail: dlsu.greenmediagroup@gmail.com

La luz prodigiosa/The End of a Mystery
Film in Spanish with English subtitles

Fecha/Date: February 6, 2010
Hora/Time: 6:00 PM
Lugar/Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Tanghalang Pilipino’s 23rd Theater Season (2009-2010), which pays tribute to “Women of Substance”, culminates with Rody Vera’s Tatlong Mariya, an adaptation of Three Sisters, the timeless classic by Anton Chekhov. Tatlong Mariya will run for four weekends from February 19 to 28 and from March 12 to 21 at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater), with evening performances every Friday and Saturday at 8:00 PM, and matinees every Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 PM. The play will be presented in a theater-in-the-round setting, making the production more challenging for the director and the performers, and more exciting for the audience.

Fallen Gods is Cuba’s official submission to 82nd Academy Award’s Foreign Language in 2010. It narrates a story about a university professor named Laura who is researching on a famous Cuban pimp. Wishing to demonstrate the relevance of this legendary character, she enters one of the most complex realities of today’s Havana.

CALL FOR ENTRIES
2nd Pambujan Pelikula Para sa Publiko (PPPP) Film
Festival
June 15-18, 2010
Pambujan, Northern Samar
RULES & GUIDELINES
1. Short films (narrative) about Samar and Leyte set locally, other place or abroad.
2. Made by Samar-Leyte filmmakers amateur or professional living here or abroad.
3. Maximum 20 minutes in DVD format (1 copy) and AVI file (1 copy).
4. Using Samar-Leyte dialect with English subtitles.
5. Film synopsis, filmmaker’s profile+filmography and stills/posters (in CD).
6. Contestants may submit as many entries as they want.
7. The organizers reserve the right not to show any film unfit for general patronage.
8. …

The winners of the 21st Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video were announced in awarding rites held on December 11, 2009 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Tanghalang Manuel Conde.
In the Experimental category, the 1st Prize went to Ang Ebolusyon ni Kalanalan by Emerson Reyes, 2nd prize to Ang Romansa ni Tinyente Gimo and Marya Labo by Joenar Pueblo and 3rd Prize to Ponkan by John Japhet Tubeo and Jonathan Marasigan. Honorable Mention was given to BIYAHILO By Revsson Antonio, Anthony Delima, Sheena Pearl Barandino, Joecel Bueno, …

It is unclear how many Afghan women use opium, but a 2005 addiction survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) put the number of adult female drug users in the country at 120,000. At least 900,000 Afghans were estimated to be drug addicts out of a population of 25 million in 2005.
Afghanistan has become by far the world’s main opium producer, with a share of world supplies that increased from 42% in 1990 to 87% in 2005.
Over the 2000-04 period, and despite adverse weather, yields in Afghanistan …

The sixth edition of Dubai International Film Festival concluded on Wednesday night with a glittering award ceremony that honoured the finest acting and cinematic talent from the Arab world, Asia and Africa at the Muhr Arab and Muhr AsiaAfrica awards.
In all, 28 prizes were distributed for excellence in acting, cinematography, editing, music and scriptwriting in addition to the jury general excellence awards. The entries were from more than 62 nations across Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Europe in three categories -documentaries, short films and feature films.
DIFF received more than …