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Pangasinan student film wins Best Documentary in Ireland
Alaminos City National High School (ACNHS) students produced the award-winning docu “Sa Layag ng Bangkang Paurong” which has won the Fresh International Film Festival in Limerick, Ireland. Photos from POPCOM.
Students from the Alaminos City National High School in Pangasinan have bagged the Best International Documentary Film award for the short film “Sa Layag ng Bangkang Paurong” (The Boats That Sail Backwards) at the recently concluded Fresh International Film Festival in Limerick, Ireland.
The Filipino documentary was declared one of the international winners of this year’s edition of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards on March 28, 2021.
MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos (Photo courtesy of MMDA)
“I want to congratulate the students from Alaminos City National High School in Pangasinan who created this award-winning film. They are proof that Filipino-made films are world-class,” Abalos said, referring to the students’ work titled “Sa Layag ng Bangkang Paurong.”
Abalos bared that the students who created the documentary were participants in the Metro Manila Film Festival’s (MMFF) student short film caravan.
With this, he encouraged other student-filmmakers to join the MMFF student caravan, which will have an online set-up this year.
The film caravan will provide students an opportunity to learn from distinguished filmmakers on the basics of filmmaking, cinematography, script writing, acting, directing techniques, viability considerations in producing films, and other filmmaking aspects.
MANILA, Apr. 25 “Sa Layag ng Bangkang Paurong” (Boats that Sail Backward) a documentary film produced by young filmmakers from Alaminos, Pangasinan was declared Best International Documentary Film in the recently concluded Fresh International Film Festival in Limerick, Ireland on March 28, 2021.
The short film created by students of Alaminos City National High School (ACNHS) was a product of POPCOM-Region I’s 4th Adolescent Health and Development Film Festival in 2019 under the theme, “The Youth and the Demographic Transition.” It depicts the plight and demographic issues of young students who thrive as boatmen working in the province’s Hundred Islands to support their education and family’s livelihood.
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A Kildare teenager has made it through to Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year competition with a film about the global pandemic.
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