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.
Ice Seguerra What he couldn’t express in words to friends, Ice Seguerra decided to string together through song.
He has gone a step farther. The song, Dito Ka Lang, which he wrote during the pandemic, has been transformed into a short film, a combination docu and music video, on mental healt
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Eksena Cinema Quarantine (Covid-19 Filmmakers’ Diaries)
“Random People” one of the short films included in Eksena
Eksena Logo January 22, 2021 ISOLATION is nothing new to any artist. Once or more times in an artist’s life, he or she goes through this. But this Covid situation that we are all going through moved everyone into the forced homestay. These 16 Filipino filmmakers from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao weaved stories chronicling their struggles and triumphs during the pandemic in the way they know best through film.
ECQ: Eksena Cinema Quarantine (Covid-19 Filmmakers’ Diaries), a project under the National Commission for Culture and the Arts - National Committee on Cinema (NCCA-NCC), in cooperation with University of St. La Salle- Artists’ Hub, features 16 filmmakers, namely, Adjani Arumpac, Hiyas Baldemor Bagabaldo, Arbi Barbarona, Glenn Barit, Carlo Enciso Catu, Zurich Chan, Arden Rod Condez, Kristian Sendon Cordero, Khavn, Keith Delige
January 20, 2021 LOCKDOWNS and quarantines did not deter sixteen filmmakers from Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and the National Capital Region from chronicling their struggles and triumphs during the pandemic time in the way they know best - through film.
ECQ: Eksena Cinema Quarantine (Covid-19 Filmmakers’ Diaries), a project under the National Commission for Culture and the Arts - National Committee on Cinema (NCCA-NCC), in cooperation with the University of St. La Salle - Artists’ Hub, features sixteen filmmakers.
They are Adjani Arumpac, Hiyas Baldemor Bagabaldo, Arbi Barbarona, Glenn Barit, Carlo Enciso Catu, Zurich Chan,Arden Rod Condez, Kristian Sendon Cordero, Khavn, Keith Deligero, Kyle Fermindoza, Bagane Fiola, Mark L. Garcia, Julienne Ilagan, Pam Miras, and Guillermo Ocampo.