Pundaquit Film Week
Start: March 21, 2009 09:00am
End: March 26, 2009
Location: Casa San Miguel, San Antonio Zambales
Casa San Miguel foundation would like to invite you to the Opening of Pundaquit Film Week on March 21, 2009 at Casa San Miguel Corpus Hall.
Screenings for community schools on March 23-26.
Screening schedule:
9:00 am DOON SA KABILA NG BULKAN
9:30 BOSES
11:00 PUTING PAALAM
Open forum
1:00pm CONCERTO
3:00 HOMING
3:30 THE GIFT OF BARONG
Open Forum
Films and Synopses:
BOSES
Philippines/2008/Fiction/90'00
Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil
Boses (Voices) is the story of a musician named Ariel (played by Coke Bolipata) who offers violin lessons to a child of the slums (played by Julian Duque). Through the violin, the abused child Onyok is able to get back his voice from a mute, desensitized existence. A violin teacher and his student, a mute 7-year old abused child in a shelter, develop a friendship stemming from their love of music. Ariel discovers the immense talent of Onyok hiding behind a veneer of silence and pain caused by an unhappy and cruel father. In the developing relationship of teacher and student, both characters reveal more of themselves that otherwise may have remained unspoken. They discover each other's strengths and failures through the violin lessons.
CONCERTO
Philippines/2008/Fiction/115'00
Paul Alexander Morales
Concerto is about how, in the last part of World War II, a special piano concert is held in the forest outside Davao City, in Mindanao. In these boondocks, a displaced Filipino family, lead by Military Commander Ricardo and his wife Julia, become acquainted with a group of Japanese officers, similarly camped nearby. Their son Joselito, a Japanese speaker, becomes the conduit with the neighboring Japanese. Their daughters Niña, an aspiring concert pianist and the musically gifted, Maria, who is able to play by ear, are alternately repulsed and intrigued by the officers. Family values are questioned as the family treads the thin line between enmity and friendship with the occupying Japanese. Based on true stories from the director's own family history, Concerto celebrates a family whose reverence for life, expressed through their love of music and friendship, can survive even war, and shows how beauty and compassion does grow in even the harshest of conditions.
THE GIFT OF BARONG
USA/2006/Documentary
Benito Bautista
The Gift of Barong is a story of two generations of Filipino-American surfers as they travel to the Philippines for the first time to experience first-hand how it is to be Filipino. Dan Moreno and Jon Villar are the two surfers who never find value in their own heritage, until now. Their trip to the Philippines is a total immersion in a unfamiliar culture, which they have relied on hearsay and written articles. At the end of their trip, both surfers will provide us with highlights of their physical, emotional and spiritual experiences. The Gift of Barong is not only a surfing odyssey, but also a journey of culture reconnection, identity crisis and personal healing.
Short Films:
PUTING PAALAM (The White Funeral)
Philippines/1997/Experimental/30'00
Sari Raissa Lluch Dalena
A bride walks on the desert and symbolically dances for a new heaven and earth to take place.
DOON SA KABILA NG BULKAN (The Other Side of the Volcano)
Philippines/1997/Animation/10'00
Ellen Ramos
A colorful and graceful animation about a tribe that is compensated in a strange way after a volcano erupts in their village.
HOMING
Philippines/2008/Experimental/5'00
Ruelo Lozendo
San Antonio locals release pawikan (sea turtle) hatchlings toward the sea. The Camera slowly moves like a rotisserie.
FREE ENTRANCE TO SCREENINGS
GATE FEE: P200 PER VAN, 100 PER CAR
http://www.pundaquitfestival.com/
Start: March 21, 2009 09:00am
End: March 26, 2009
Location: Casa San Miguel, San Antonio Zambales
Casa San Miguel foundation would like to invite you to the Opening of Pundaquit Film Week on March 21, 2009 at Casa San Miguel Corpus Hall.
Screenings for community schools on March 23-26.
Screening schedule:
9:00 am DOON SA KABILA NG BULKAN
9:30 BOSES
11:00 PUTING PAALAM
Open forum
1:00pm CONCERTO
3:00 HOMING
3:30 THE GIFT OF BARONG
Open Forum
Films and Synopses:
BOSES
Philippines/2008/Fiction/90'00
Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil
Boses (Voices) is the story of a musician named Ariel (played by Coke Bolipata) who offers violin lessons to a child of the slums (played by Julian Duque). Through the violin, the abused child Onyok is able to get back his voice from a mute, desensitized existence. A violin teacher and his student, a mute 7-year old abused child in a shelter, develop a friendship stemming from their love of music. Ariel discovers the immense talent of Onyok hiding behind a veneer of silence and pain caused by an unhappy and cruel father. In the developing relationship of teacher and student, both characters reveal more of themselves that otherwise may have remained unspoken. They discover each other's strengths and failures through the violin lessons.
CONCERTO
Philippines/2008/Fiction/115'00
Paul Alexander Morales
Concerto is about how, in the last part of World War II, a special piano concert is held in the forest outside Davao City, in Mindanao. In these boondocks, a displaced Filipino family, lead by Military Commander Ricardo and his wife Julia, become acquainted with a group of Japanese officers, similarly camped nearby. Their son Joselito, a Japanese speaker, becomes the conduit with the neighboring Japanese. Their daughters Niña, an aspiring concert pianist and the musically gifted, Maria, who is able to play by ear, are alternately repulsed and intrigued by the officers. Family values are questioned as the family treads the thin line between enmity and friendship with the occupying Japanese. Based on true stories from the director's own family history, Concerto celebrates a family whose reverence for life, expressed through their love of music and friendship, can survive even war, and shows how beauty and compassion does grow in even the harshest of conditions.
THE GIFT OF BARONG
USA/2006/Documentary
Benito Bautista
The Gift of Barong is a story of two generations of Filipino-American surfers as they travel to the Philippines for the first time to experience first-hand how it is to be Filipino. Dan Moreno and Jon Villar are the two surfers who never find value in their own heritage, until now. Their trip to the Philippines is a total immersion in a unfamiliar culture, which they have relied on hearsay and written articles. At the end of their trip, both surfers will provide us with highlights of their physical, emotional and spiritual experiences. The Gift of Barong is not only a surfing odyssey, but also a journey of culture reconnection, identity crisis and personal healing.
Short Films:
PUTING PAALAM (The White Funeral)
Philippines/1997/Experimental/30'00
Sari Raissa Lluch Dalena
A bride walks on the desert and symbolically dances for a new heaven and earth to take place.
DOON SA KABILA NG BULKAN (The Other Side of the Volcano)
Philippines/1997/Animation/10'00
Ellen Ramos
A colorful and graceful animation about a tribe that is compensated in a strange way after a volcano erupts in their village.
HOMING
Philippines/2008/Experimental/5'00
Ruelo Lozendo
San Antonio locals release pawikan (sea turtle) hatchlings toward the sea. The Camera slowly moves like a rotisserie.
FREE ENTRANCE TO SCREENINGS
GATE FEE: P200 PER VAN, 100 PER CAR
http://www.pundaquitfestival.com/
