It s a good year to be a Filipino at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), one of the best genre film festivals out there. After a productive several days of meeting stakeholders and decision makers and pitching their film project, Gabriela Serrano and Gale Osorio s Please Bear With Me won three of the top awards during the awarding ceremony of BIFAN s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF), specifically the Asian Discovery Award, Mocha Chai Lab Post Production Award for post production, and the Sitges FanPitch Award, which includes an invitation to Sitges Film Festival in Spain.
The French Institute of Cambodia (IFC) is arranging film screenings and a discussion forum with multi-talented artist Sok Visal, the founder and director of the hip hop music label KlapYaHandz, from October 17-22.