STUDENT-FILMMAKERS from the Mapúa University School of Media Studies hosted a competition and screening of 24 student projects during the third “VanGarde Experimental Film Festival” with the theme: “Clairvoyance Meeting” at the Mapúa Cardinal Cinema in Makati City. When the dust had settled, Pearl Barcos and Franz Bautista bagged the…
Award-winning Filipino filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Richard Soriano Legaspi won the Special Honor Mention at the 6th edition of the 21 Islands International Short Film Festival (21 Islands ISFF) in New York City. Legaspi added another feather to his cap when his experimental short film “Job Order” was announced the…
A professorial lecturer at Far Eastern University recently bagged a Special Mention award for his documentary screenplay at the 3rd Dreamanila International Film Festival. “Maria Leonor,” a short documentary written and directed by Seymour Barros Sanchez in the form of an open letter, delves into the Filipino voter’s psyche as…
The rise of disinformation and malinformation. Online gender-based violence and non-consensual sharing of intimate images on the internet. Online surveillance and data privacy issues. Blatant attacks and repression of artists, journalists, activists, and members of minority groups. The push for data sovereignty and decentralized data flow. These issues and more…