Articles Archive for January 2010
Featured, Headline, Theater »
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.
Film, Foreign Language »
The film chronicles the relationship and lack of communication between the narrator, who is a single mother and pragmatic middle-aged professor of physics, and her moody adolescent daughter during the Cuban economic crisis known as the Special Period.
Featured, Film, Foreign Language, Headline »
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.
Lecture »
Cuban poet, scriptwriter, editor and journalist, Alex Fleites, will give a lecture on the perception of Severo Sarduy from Cuba. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Philology from the University of Havana. To date, Fleites has published eight books in Cuba and two in Italy for which he received many awards, among these the Julian del Casal National Poetry Prize and the “26 de Julio” National Prize for Journalism.
Friday, 15 January 2010 7.00pm
Instituto Cervantes- Free entrance
Lecture in Spanish with English translation
Instituto Cervantes de Manila
855 T.M. Kalaw Street, Ermita
1000 Manila, Filipinas
Tel. …
Announcement, Film, Filmfest, Poetry »
Call for Artists: F.I.F.E CARBUNARI 2010
International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari
Deadline for applications: March 03, 2010
email: lucacurci@lucacurci.com
more details: www.lucacurci.com/artexpo
International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films to include in the next 2010 Exhibitions:
The 7th Edition of the International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari 2010 – The International Experimental Film Festival is dedicated exclusively to sustaining and promoting the experimental films. We consider the experimental film to be one of the most interesting expression forms of contemporary art. The seventh edition of the Experimental Film Festival 2010 is a specific one because we will …
Announcement, Featured, Film »
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. …
Film, Headline, Independent »
Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (IFC) in collaboration with Robinsons Movieworld Galleria has created a venue for independent films, Indiesine. This partnership has been made tangible by Galleria’s offer of a home for independent films by virtue of a movie house dedicated to the programming of independent films. In return, IFC has been tasked to book films for the venue and co-manage its operations with Galleria.
This week, Indiesine is featuring PUNTOD, (BABY’s TOMB) January 13-19, 2010
A movie by Cesar Apolinario
Produced by Arlyn dela Cruz
Two journalists collaborating to tell the story of Baby, …
Film, Independent »
Walang Alaala Ang Mga Paruparo
Pelikula ni Lav Diaz
UP Film Institute invites you to a special screening of Lav Diaz’s Butterflies Have No Memories on January 13, Wednesday, 7pm at UPFI Cine Adarna. The event will be preceded by his work-in-progress film, Agonistes followed by a talk from Kalikasan.
January 13, Wednesday, UP Film Institute Cine Adarna
4PM – Agonistes
6:30PM- Q & A WITH Kalikasan
7PM – Butterflies Have No Memories
Overview:
Lav Diaz’s Butterflies Have No Memories (Walang Alaala Ang Mga Paruparo)
On an island far from the main land of the Philippines, islanders who …