The cast of 'In The Name of Love'
"In the Name of the Mother" stars Snooky Serna and Rita Daniela will vie for best actress at the 11th International Film Festival Manhattan in New York.
Snooky and Rita play mother and daughter in the nominated flick.
In the movie, Snooky plays the mother o
Published December 20, 2020, 11:21 AM
“Magikland” director Christian Acuna has said that it is really overwhelming to watch the most ambitious animated movie in full which took two years to be completed.
“It is really overwhelming when you watch it but we did it inch by inch. The story naman, talagang minasahe namin unti-unti para talagang maging maganda ang kalalabasan nito,” Acuna said after the press preview of “Magikland” held in Quezon City recently.
“Sa shooting, we took a lot of time. then hindi namin minadali. Even sa sound and design, we really took our time to get everything done at magawa ng tama,” he added.
In just a few days, the world will be celebrating Christmas in very different ways. Here in the Philippines for one the country known for having the longest holiday celebration the contrast from Christmases past is truly very stark.
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Unlike before, cities and homes hardly glitter with holiday décor; malls aren’t crowded with the happy buzz of shoppers; and the usual parties and reunions aren’t allowed, when all these sights and feels should have been afoot as soon as the ber-months began. Sadly, the global crisis that is the Coronavirus Pandemic has not let up in the last nine months, with the newly approved vaccine only being given to volunteers this past week.
Published December 17, 2020, 8:47 AM
How did the former Congressman of Negros Occidental (also producer of Brightlights Productions) Albee Benitez and his townmate/master filmmaker Peque Gallaga (RIP) and storywriter of “Magikland”- choose the young actors who played the folklore characters of Negros, that abound in the theme park to play the lead characters in the movie version “Magikland”?
The Four Elements in the Negros legend are: Boy Bakunawa, Mara Marapara, Pat Patag and Kit Kanlaon.
Let’s hear it from the director Christian Acuna.
1) BOY BAKUNAWA “Boy Bakunawa is the top player of Magikland, the game. He’s the group’s leader. “He played Magikland as an escape from his problems. He is a kid with a golden heart. “He knows the most about the game. His way of dealing with the hardships of caring for his sick mother is by playing the game. “His weapon is Espada ng Katapatan (Sword of Truth), which goes back to his core as a loyal and golden heart perso